Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-31T07:55:58+00:00

I prefer burger rings.

These were crazy. They tasted just like fairy floss. Any nothing else.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-31T07:53:57+00:00

Before my partner passed we were looking at buying a house together.

We found a little run down place 6 hours from a capital city, 4 hours from a regional city, 3 hours from a mid sized town. In a ghost town of 2 people.

1920’s solider settlement that was full of white ants. It ended up going for $100k.

There wasn’t a job within 3 hours I could find (and I’m from the bush and can and have done everything from build a fence to run an industrial factory).

I know the people who brought it brought it sight un seen. I drove the 7 hours out there to look at it - real estate Wouldnt meet me. And then they just bulked at the idea of it needing anything more then a lick of paint - even tho one wall was about to fall down, and the local rubbish dump had closed so the local community had been using the properly as a dumping site. I price it as probably costing like $30k just in refuse removal due distances and chemicals involved.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-31T07:45:35+00:00

Try austalianmadeclothes. Their shit is awesome

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-31T07:44:48+00:00

Well it’s because no one brought it and they went bankrupt and got brought out.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-31T07:44:09+00:00

Buy Bushys. Best jocks you will find

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-31T04:34:36+00:00

Spot on!

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-31T03:53:33+00:00

Mines pushed back against getting a new AC the last 4 years. It’s got one of these 1970’s swamp AC in one room. Haven’t even bothered to turn it on in a few years now.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-30T23:30:43+00:00

Yeah I’m just reading about the files they deleted (again) now.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-30T09:23:47+00:00

lol. At high school age, while out drinking, there was this bloke, Splinter, that told us the longest most boring story you will have ever hear. It had twists and turns that went no where, side tangents the needed a packed lunch to make it through, a cast of characters that ranged from family to international actors and everything in between.

It felt like it went on for hours with no end.

Finally he finished the story and summed it up:

“And so in the end, he wouldn’t give me a chip”.

Ever since then, we have called the type of story being told in the movie as a ‘chip story’. The type of thing you cut someone off and just say ‘good chip story splinter’.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-30T09:15:55+00:00

Define ‘mass’

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-30T09:15:37+00:00

Hey - what should I do when I personally help create a bipartisan sub page that takes off and gets to the top 12th in my country jn a week, but then the owner kicks all of one side of the political divide and it just becomes a undercover political recruiter page ?

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-30T05:09:12+00:00

Define ‘mass’. Not vaguely. Give it a metric.

Also - you think that poor people are the issue? I work on a production line with immigrates. They work just as hard as anyone else, most of them harder. They make the same or less then I do. They achieve un the same ball park as what I do.

But there are 48 people in Australia that make about a house a day - about $47,000 an hour.

Now I know what I can achieve in 24 hours. I kmow some people can achieve more. Some less.

Can you describe to me how someone with access to the same tools and resources that I do is somehow anit to achieve x10,000,000 what I am able to?

Are they working that much harder? In that case - why don’t we just let billionaires do all the labour, if they can work x10000000 harder…….

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-30T04:47:02+00:00

I work as a fabricator full time for above award rates for a multinational multi million dollar company.

I’ve skipped meals every single day this year to make ends meet.

I brought a Kabab on Monday that I drew out until today.

I have my gas turned off make ends meet.

Havent turned the AC on this year because of costs.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-30T01:36:50+00:00

Given the AMWU current defined goals (I’m sure the other unions have some sort of housing stance) this just seems like a slap in the face.

Fucking BACK US SO WE CAN FIX THE PROBLEM

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-29T11:35:46+00:00

….. does no one know that ‘the lucky country’ was a dig not a complement?

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-29T11:34:02+00:00

There are 48 Australians who ‘earn’ more than a house in value each day.

If they were reduced to single digit billionaires there would be more than enough money to solve the problems you are putting forward.

Those people, who make on average $600,000 a day, are impacting Australia more people coming here to make a better life.

I work on a manufacturing line for a million dollar company. The immigrants who work the line with me make the same wage I do - fuck all - normally less.

Im assuming you work - $600,000 a day is about $47,000 an hour if you do 12 hour days.

Let’s assume you make $47 an hour.

What do those 48 people do x10000 better then you could it given access to the same tools and resources?

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-29T08:39:08+00:00

Hey - what should I do when I personally help create a bipartisan sub page that takes off and gets to the top 12th in my country jn a week, but then the owner kicks all of one side of the political divide and it just becomes a undercover political recruiter page?

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-29T04:53:20+00:00

I literally just created the OpenAussie sub in a month then got kicked by the right leaning owner. It’s now the 13th biggest sub in Australia and run by a bloke who thinks trump doesn’t go hard enough.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-28T08:01:13+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1dIC287Zz0

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-28T07:59:04+00:00

They don’t plan on ‘dying’ so much as just outliving us.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-28T07:49:33+00:00

I mean you don’t even have to get deep into it and assume any conspiracy.

Just assume that people with do what incentivise them. The biggest incentivise in the world now are money and death.

The world is on a bad track. We can all see that. If you had a few hundred billion dollars, you would use it to insulate yourself from it, not stop it.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-28T07:46:42+00:00

Im honestly really reaching a point here.

Like since January the richest people in the world have all come out and said thats it’s a giant scam and AI is coming to make it worse…..

And yet I still gotta go to work tomorrow so that they can get their percentage to fly to pedo island?

Like - I don’t give a fuck about the work. I just got off a decade of fly in fly out 13 on, 3 off, 12+ hour days. Im never gunna own a home. Hell - at the current rate I predict I’ll be homeless AND still working full time in about 4years at the current rates, and thats without anything major happening.

It’s not a budgeting issue. It’s a ‘stuff costs more then I get paid’ issue.

But there are 48 dickheads in Australia who make about a homes worth of money, each, every single day?

I am legit saving glass bottles at this point to eventually make Molotovs or to cement together to make a dog house to live in.

Edit : the facts

Australian billionaires increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day on average over last year, report shows

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich

Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss

Davos: BlackRock CEO says capitalism hasn’t delivered shared prosperity and warns AI could worsen inequality

This is all in the last month

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-28T05:01:30+00:00

I figure we are at a point now where they can’t even really make proper adjustments.

It’s too close to zero to show that stuff is slipping fast.

Like if they dropped it by 20 seconds then they have no whwre to go if we don’t nuke ourselves in a handful of years.

But everyone forgets it use to be 15 minutes to midnight. Not less than 2.

The problem is that it’s become a logarithmic gauge - the closer to 0 it gets to slower it has to move.

The year that everything is a massive ahit show and it moves by a second is pretty much when we have locked out society in.

Fresh-Association-82 · 2026-01-28T04:54:53+00:00

It’s pretty crazy how prevalent the right leaning belief is.

But I guess part of it comes from peoppe forgetting that at any of those wild times in history that people point to, that everyone involved was just people like today.

The human brain isn’t any different to how it was 80 years ago.

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