Nearly three in five Australians (59.1 per cent) believe life was better 50 years ago.
Interestingly, a bit less than 40% of Australians were alive 50 years ago. It’s just begging for the historical-revisionist pseudo-nostalgia that conservatives have been churning out for decades - what does a 30 year old really know about how life was 50 years ago?
I was around 50 years ago. Just about everyone lived in poverty compared to today.
Housing is the standout difference. Housing was much, much more affordable. But also most houses were small and simple. Didn’t have much insulation, no air con, lucky to have more than one power point in a room, often built with dangerous materials like asbestos. Dangerous old wiring.
The billionaire owned media and foreign influence is heavily shaping public opinion for their own purposes. Oddly there is no dissatisfaction when a conservative government is engaging in massive wealth transfer to the rich and multinationals and closing all our industry. Then the sky is falling when we have a Labor government trying to get us through difficult times created by circumstances outside their control.
Your point on housing and government is a pure cop out. Plenty of people would be happy smaller basic houses if they could just afford them. But they’ve all been either knocked down, renovated to inflate the value, or still exist but are no longer affordable. And labor are, at best, complicit in many of the problems people have. They used a vaguely defined ‘skills shortage’ to justify one of the biggest migration rates into the country in its history while barely lifting a finger to increase housing supply. Yes, the libs would’ve been 10x worse, but that isn’t an excuse to just disregard criticism of Labor
There is some nostalgia distortion at play here, but a 30 year old can still study history. Some of us have parents who bought houses in capital cities on single incomes working for the public service in the 70s.
Yeah, my parents bought a fibro shitbox in the sticks on a public service income. Its basically uninhabitable by todays standards and while the land might have appreciated in value more than inflation it wouldn’t beat any other investments. City property prices are what happens when you depopulate rural Australia and move all the good jobs. But fuck everyone else I got mine right?
The media wants to turf Labor out and replace them with a bunch of yes men and women for the big corporations, Gina and the Trump crime cartel. Labor is still at last nominally the party of working Australians, but they are are forced to do weak shit or get crucified in the court of public opinion, ironically by the people who would benefit most by supporting them.
I fucking hate what passes for debate and news these days.
Labor have really dropped the ball with renters though. They could be doing so much more. So many people are paying too much money to live in shit boxes. I found it easier to get a rental when I was a low paid farm worker in 2010, and when I was on centrelink studying in 2012. Now I’m an electronics engineer and it’s harder than it’s ever been. My quality of life has not scaled with education and effort.
(Edit: quality of life with respect to housing security solely I should clarify. I am not struggling in other respects financially)
Interestingly, a bit less than 40% of Australians were alive 50 years ago. It’s just begging for the historical-revisionist pseudo-nostalgia that conservatives have been churning out for decades - what does a 30 year old really know about how life was 50 years ago?
I was around 50 years ago. Just about everyone lived in poverty compared to today.
Housing is the standout difference. Housing was much, much more affordable. But also most houses were small and simple. Didn’t have much insulation, no air con, lucky to have more than one power point in a room, often built with dangerous materials like asbestos. Dangerous old wiring.
The billionaire owned media and foreign influence is heavily shaping public opinion for their own purposes. Oddly there is no dissatisfaction when a conservative government is engaging in massive wealth transfer to the rich and multinationals and closing all our industry. Then the sky is falling when we have a Labor government trying to get us through difficult times created by circumstances outside their control.
Yeh I’m sure people would prefer not being able to afford a home than to have to settle for owning an affordable small and simple home…….
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Your point on housing and government is a pure cop out. Plenty of people would be happy smaller basic houses if they could just afford them. But they’ve all been either knocked down, renovated to inflate the value, or still exist but are no longer affordable. And labor are, at best, complicit in many of the problems people have. They used a vaguely defined ‘skills shortage’ to justify one of the biggest migration rates into the country in its history while barely lifting a finger to increase housing supply. Yes, the libs would’ve been 10x worse, but that isn’t an excuse to just disregard criticism of Labor
There is some nostalgia distortion at play here, but a 30 year old can still study history. Some of us have parents who bought houses in capital cities on single incomes working for the public service in the 70s.
Yeah, my parents bought a fibro shitbox in the sticks on a public service income. Its basically uninhabitable by todays standards and while the land might have appreciated in value more than inflation it wouldn’t beat any other investments. City property prices are what happens when you depopulate rural Australia and move all the good jobs. But fuck everyone else I got mine right?
The media wants to turf Labor out and replace them with a bunch of yes men and women for the big corporations, Gina and the Trump crime cartel. Labor is still at last nominally the party of working Australians, but they are are forced to do weak shit or get crucified in the court of public opinion, ironically by the people who would benefit most by supporting them.
I fucking hate what passes for debate and news these days.
Labor have really dropped the ball with renters though. They could be doing so much more. So many people are paying too much money to live in shit boxes. I found it easier to get a rental when I was a low paid farm worker in 2010, and when I was on centrelink studying in 2012. Now I’m an electronics engineer and it’s harder than it’s ever been. My quality of life has not scaled with education and effort. (Edit: quality of life with respect to housing security solely I should clarify. I am not struggling in other respects financially)
My parents bought a house in chaddy for $20k in 1980.
Granted it was then an absolutely shithouse neighbourhood and definitely a shit as hell house, but oooooooooooh…