Maybe the headline should say accomplished woman and her husband buy $4m house
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I mean it’s not exactly the best look, considering his age etc. ABC is reporting that he’s bought it based on the fact that he’s sold his previous house for an absolute killing as well. It just shows how hard it is to get into the housing market.
Inherently there’s nothing wrong, but it’s 100% the dissatisfaction of the general population in the fact that houses cost that much.
Betoota on point, yet again.
He’s got two, one in Marrickville and one in Dulwich Hill and is renting something in the inner west. That’s part of the point though, we’re expecting politicians to legislate on stuff that they literally have a clear conflict of interest on.
If we applied this argument to every situation we’d literally never have anything legislated. Gay politicians legislating gay marriage? Clearly a conflict!
The problem is they are only interested in holding onto power, not making a positive impact on the communities they serve (generalisation - yes, but not largely untrue). Labor get a slight pass here, but only because the Liberals are truly awful.
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Except in this case it’s very very clear monetary gain to not do anything about it. I’ve always said that all politicians should be forced to put every single one of their investments and portfolios into a blind trust and should never be able to see anything till they retire from politics. Throw in the requirement to use bank accounts that are managed by a Federal Body that are open to audit at all times.
At the very least, legislate so that politicians cannot be involved in laws in which they stand to gain any monetary windfalls.
That would be nice. I fear we might struggle to find people to govern though!
That’s the scariest part of the situation…
Is it? That stuff sounds pretty draconian.
You can’t really force policy that way, in a democracy.
requiring politicians that are legislating on the behalf of an entire country to show that they’re not on the take or at the very least getting something out of it?
I mean the current system has ended us up with a whole bunch of corrupt politicians, a system that’s 100% set on ensuring those with multiple properties get to keep them, multiple instances of our own parties not even checking if their members are entitled to sit as actual politicians. Throw in money coming from every industry left right and centre.
At the end of the day, there’s a reason why you have the rise of the right wing nut jobs and that’s because people have zero trust and faith that politicians will actually do the right thing.
I think corruption is actually relatively low in Australia. We have financial disclosure rules for parliamentarians. Independent corruption commissions. We even know what house the PM and his wife are personally buying. If the people decide he’s simply gotten too bougie they can vote him out.
RWNJ lack of faith in government has more to do with a broader decline in faith in institutions that correlates more with socioeconomic and educational circumstance. Not overt corruption.
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Corruption maybe not the best word, but just the impropriety and all the other shit that’s occurred at all levels of governments. Be it the sexual harassment, branch stacking, jobs for mates, changing zoning, grant programs, failing to declare actual conflicts, I mean the list goes on with the amount of bullshit that’s going down. The worst part is that we all know that we’re not even scratching the surface of the rest of it.
It’s not just the right though, there’s huge amounts of disenfranchised voters. Just had a look at 2023 government poling. 26% of people polled indicated that they trusted politican parties.
Sure. You’re kinda making up out of context statistics though.
Australians place high trust in the police (68%) and the courts and judicial system (59%). Australian’s trust in the federal government has also increased significantly from 38% in 2021 to 46% in 2023. This exceeds the OECD average of 39%, placing Australia in the top 10 of the 30 countries surveyed.
Dude I’m not about to read a 53 page report.
The above says trust is higher than it was and it’s significantly higher than other OECD.
There’s a page that links to public trust and political parties are at 26% trust. Even then, 46% of your population trusting a federal government is absolutely shit. Just because we’re in the top 10 of 30 countries doesn’t exactly mean that much. I mean we’re in the top 20 for racial equality, does that mean we’re all good?
What’s a good number?
It’s not mate, its just that the absolute grifting bastards in the UK and US over the last decade have completely reset everyones standards for corruption.
You can’t tell me that the Paladin debacle where half a fucking billion dollars was given to a company with no employees, registered to a beach hut, wasn’t collossal corruption.
NACC not investigating robodebt
Gladys and her fat boyfriend’s rorts
The treatment of the ATO whistleblower
The ATO commissioners son and daughter ripping off $105m of PAYG tax.
I could fill a page off the top of my head, the country has a real problem.
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