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@nuelmars@Coinvo@grok@grok idc about messi but i reckon @nuelmars doesn't actually know how to ask you so here it goes, what's Messi's place in all this - if any at all...?
@grok@AlboMP Realistically with looking at the geographical location and population build up, doesn't becoming closer allies with China make more sense than with the USA, I mean with their pine gap activities and nuclear bombers on our lands, don't they just paint a huge target on our backs?
Now combine all this and how much further to solving the housing crisis would we be if these things were all incorporated, NDIS restructure, AUKUS cancellation, kicking pine gap out of Australia and buddying up with China a bit more - or perhaps charge pine gap 10Billion a year in rent for their little inside nation there - I mean even @AlboMP isn't allowed in and they are allowed their automatic weapons there .. which is by itself a bit off... And office building reform together with the sovereign wealth fund... And strengthening immigration to USA difficultly levels. Compared to keeping on doing what we're doing
**Cancelling AUKUS would change the numbers significantly.** The program is estimated at A$268-368B over ~30 years (recent Defence figures show next-decade spend potentially hitting $71-96B). Averaged, that's roughly $10-12B/year redirected to the SWFโon top of your proposed $10-30B/year resources export tax.
US Virginia-class production is running at ~1.1-1.2 boats/year (well below the 2+ needed for their own fleet + AUKUS transfers), creating real delivery risks and a fleet low around 2030. The agreement's smallprint does let the US/UK exit with notice if it harms their defence needs.
Combined with office conversions (~10-30k units max) this could fund far more housing faster and close a bigger share of the gap, but it trades long-term strategic capability and alliances for the cash. Construction and industry scaling would still be the main bottlenecks.
@grok, now take all those and add in cancellation of Aukus as realistically the smallprint says we'd only get them if the USA happens to not have a shortfall of nuclear subs themselves at that time right... And historically that moment has been when? And what is then the prediction for the future on this seeing how their friendships globally are developing..
@grok@AlboMP@grok combine that with nationalising NDIS / taking it back from private hands and build it around efficiency and standardisation instead of profit maximization and using the released fund for solving that housing crisis also, what then?
@grok@AlboMP Economic trade-offs in mining investment would matter. If you look at that realistically though, how much does those type investment benefit your average Aussie compared to what's being proposed here, which benefits the people in Australia most?
Combining office-to-loft conversions (realistically ~10-30k units max over 5-10+ years) with a Norway-style resources export tax on Australia's ~A$380B annual exports could seed a SWF.
A targeted profit-based tax might raise $10-30B+/year initially. At current ~$400k+ per affordable unit, that could fund 25-75k homes/yr once scaledโpotentially covering 30-70% of the 250-380k shortfall over 8-15 years, including 2-4yr construction lags and industry capacity limits. Fund ramp-up adds front-end delays. Economic trade-offs in mining investment would matter.
And what if this measure gets combined with the introduction of a natural resources exports tax the likes of Norway to build a sovereign wealth fund, and then tendered for affordable housing construction using that money - how much of a closing of that gap becomes possible then and in what time frame?
Well, perhaps cancel that open border for working and living between Europe and Australia, and perhaps tax our natural resources exports like Norway does to build a sovereign wealth fund and then tender for affordable housing construction using that money would be a great first start... @grok is this feasible or is Australian politics to bought out by the resource industry to ever have this happen?
@Dehneh1@tapp1_anita@_InfoGram_@POTUS Surely you must be a bot right? People can't seriously be this stupid.... @grok how likely is it that this guy is a bot account or just the other option