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Did you exchange, a walk on part in the war, for the lead role in a cage? ~ Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.

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@Peter_Fitz I can’t believe you wrote that.

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@blakandblack Good grief, are you really that stupid or are you being deliberately disengenious?

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@stkirsch Here in Melbourne, Australia, we have a new dedicated Heart Hospital. I wonder why 🤔

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@TerinMahsout @craigkellyAFEE The equivalent of a year's wages, can you not read?

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@craigkellyAFEE My working class grandparents could afford to buy a home, I cannot. So much for the lucky country.

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

In 1964, you could buy a block of land in Engadine for £750.

At the time, the basic wage in Australia was £15 8s per week, or around £800 per year.

So back then, for the equivalent of one year’s salary on the basic wage, you could own a block of land.

And the deposit was a little over three weeks’ wages.

Fast forward to today, and the median house-and-land price in Engadine is $1.6 million — say around $1 million for a block of land alone.

The current minimum full-time wage is around $50,000, so you now need 20 years of wages to buy what you used to be able to buy with one.

Alternatively, using the RBA inflation calculator, £750 in 1964 is worth the equivalent of around $30,000 today.

So what would be worth $30,000 today if land prices increased in line with inflation, instead will cost you $1 million.

This is the result of decades of governments artificially restricting the supply of land for housing, combined with excess rates of migration over the past two decades - destroying the dream of homeownership for millions of young Australians, and fundamentally changing Australian society for the worse.

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@JohnAndersonAC @Sargon_of_Akkad the same can be said of Australia. I believe we have one of the highest rates (per capita) of bureaucracy/government in the world.

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@AntiWokeMemes It's not judgement it's biological facts. Grow up.

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@DrNeilStone The stories of bad side effects are not emotive they are criminal. One day people will be held accountable.

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@Joelrw_au @tanya_plibersek The left are obsessed with skin colour, it’s sickeningly racist.

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@JennyTa22393082 @tsourlinis Wow, you really have no idea.

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@ArchonThalsian @DrNeilStone No they are not.

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@GailDow12 @maura_resister @tkwhalen Really? I know several, including family members. Don't know anyone who has died of Covid though.

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@maura_resister How many deaths are acceptable then?

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@_davidlimbrick You know what she means.

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@goodfoodgal Decent weather too.

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@TonyShepherd4 laughable. It's obvious it is the other way around.

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@TopherField It's a very strange take from the family to say the least. And you are right, they are entitled to their opinion and so is everyone else and most see it differently.

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@GregMarSci Who's Monica Smith? Do you mean Monica Smit?