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the price of "small" houses went through the roof….
Scott Morrison offers lucrative $300,000 incentive to retirees who downsize their homes so young families can buy their first property - and claims the incentive will free up 1.3million houses
Prime Minister said it will make up to another 1.3million houses available for sale
Proposal also features a two year grace period before asset testing for a pension
Mr Morrison said it's designed to help 'free up larger homes for younger families
A Productivity Commission survey of Australians over 60 found 70 per cent said moving to a smaller property with less upkeep was the reason for selling their house. Pictured is an older couple looking at a lap top computer...
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ANOTHER MASSIVE FISHING HOOK FROM SCOTTY OF MARKETING... Most of my old friends of a certain age — one good friend is 99 and still living in his OWN place for the last 70 years — would prefer staying in their mansion till they die, rather than downsize into a cubicle or even a SMALL brick-veneer thingy in a retirement village equiped with a pianola... Meanwhile the incentive of "FREE" cash makes some older generations salivate through their dentures without realising this is another con trick from ScoMo-La-Snake, which would devalue everything people have lived for.
NOW, you are a clever people, ask yourself the question: why this ScoMo Offer now? Not yesterday, not five years ago, when the problem of young people owning their houses was already acute? You know the answer: AN ELECTION. So go back into your little hole and don't pay attention to ScoMo's massive fishing hook for votes — because the "bait" is full of economiic downfall, crap accounting, an enormous amount of SMIRK, some turd polishing and zero ultimate value...
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Cartoon above is a mischief by Gus Leonisky from an image in The New Yorker "history of cooking" or such....
- By Gus Leonisky at 18 May 2022 - 6:54am
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voting for the future of the planet…...
Mark, a voter in the Melbourne electorate of Higgins, told the ABC’s Virginia Trioli this would be the last federal election he’d be alive to vote in. So he’d decided his vote should not be for him, but for the younger generation coming after him.
He wanted to cast his final vote for the party that best represented young people’s aspirations for their future. So he went to the local high school and got permission to talk to the senior students.
And which side did they pick? “It’s the Greens. And that’s the first and last time I’ll be voting for them,” he said.
It’s a sad commentary on modern politics that no mainstream politician would dare suggest we vote for them because they’d best advance the public interest. They know that we know their greatest interest is in advancing their own career so, to attract our votes, they offer bribes.
They’ve trained us to see elections as transactional, not aspirational. You want my vote? What are you offering? And is that better or worse than the other side’s offering?
That’s how, with climate change and so many other, lesser problems needing attention, we’re devoting most of this campaign to grappling with the great challenge of our age ... the cost of living. Really?
Now, I don’t blame people on low incomes with big commitments who really do struggle to get by for wanting to see what the two sides are offering that might make their lives easier.
But you don’t have to be struggling to tell yourself your life’s a struggle, and you wouldn’t mind voting for a pollie offering you a few more bangles and baubles.
I can’t be the only voter in the land whose comfortable lifestyle is not in any way threatened by the rising cost of living.
A reminder from Struggle Street would be timely. My co-religionists, the Salvos, release today a report on how their clients are faring, preparatory to knocking on your door the weekend after the election. (If you’re wondering, at present I hold the rank of backslider, but there’s still a lot of Salvo in me.)
The Salvos took a random sample of 10,000 of the people who had attended their emergency relief centres in the past 12 months. More than 1400 people responded to the request to complete an online questionnaire.
The survey showed that, after paying for housing costs, 93 per cent of respondents were living below the poverty line, with almost two-thirds needing to ask for financial help from family and friends.
The high proportion of these people’s meagre incomes devoted to rent is their biggest problem, leaving too little for food and all the rest.
Although some respondents would be working poor, most would be on government support payments, including the parenting payment and disability support payment. Among these people, 60 per cent say they can’t afford medical or dental treatment when they need it, and well over half say they’re going without some meals.
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