For those who don’t or can’t get out,

[bigrich]

Yeah, the tossers admitted we are now in a cost of living crissis.
No, admitting they did nothing to help, apart from their corp greedy mates.

It was them who went with net zero and wanted all the coal to stop. Isn't coal our biggest export?
If any other country had our natural resources, they would have a thriving economy, not us.

Unfortunately, the worker ants, small business people and farmers, were let go for all these UN plans like the new world order, 30-30 and what ever they like to call them.
Well it failed, and now we have no manufacturing and someone like Bill Gates will see the food profits if they can buy and control the farming. China and India did well, as was in the original plan.

What about our living standards and we haven't hit rock bottom yet.
And the kids have no real future, which is the worst part.
This fuel thing is big, as you say, and could be the straw that broke the camel's back for normal Australians.

and the duopoly wonder why pissed of everyday australians are pushing one nation polling through the roof ! freaking w@nkers that live in ivory towers

[Wapiti]

Fuel prices CANNOT be a problem for everyone, even though prices have gone through the roof, everyone's lining up down the road to get ripped off.
So no food for the planters, headers, water pumps and the trucks to the markets. These morons will starve with full fuel tanks in their big polished 4WD's and jet skis sitting in the garage.

[bigrich]

Fuel prices CANNOT be a problem for everyone, even though prices have gone through the roof, everyone's lining up down the road to get ripped off.
So no food for the planters, headers, water pumps and the trucks to the markets. These morons will starve with full fuel tanks in their big polished 4WD's and jet skis sitting in the garage.

young fella at work i was talking to yesterday , 26 years old , he's on what was considered good money just a few years ago , has been struggling to support his missus, pay rent, and afford the basics of life . got a kid on the way too . fuel where he lives on the outskirts of logan , was $2.50 per litre . that's gone to a point where the extra $50 a week he's gunna have to pay will break his finances . he's quite smoking and goes half's with his brother in a carton of beer a week as his luxuries aren't affordable . he's having to live on the outer edges of logan cause that's where he can find barely affordable rent , $690 per week . our cost of living has been pushing young and working class australians , and pensioners, to struggle to afford the basics . our politicians have failed the people of this country with their focus on high minded green and leftist ideology . young fella reckons he's voting one nation next election cause he's had a gutful . it's a protest vote , but how many others will do the same out of anger at canberra ? plenty i hope as since ON polling has gone up , the duopoly have markedly changed their rhetoric , coalition appear to have stolen some of one nations policies in response. too little , too late

back on topic , a lot of people are finding it harder to afford to get out , thankfully i still can , but i've changed my spending to be able to afford do it

[Wapiti]

You are a good bloke, Rich, having met you now I know that. You are one of the genuine out there.
There are people all around me too that are living off the land, and for years have been being ripped off for their produce and protein, and no government yet has wanted to help or curb the incredibly choking profit-at-all-costs influences of the big food chains. Again, it's who the masses elect, and it's all due to promises made from politicians less capable to lead than the voters themselves, self-greed and the bubble they live in.
These companies HAVE NO CONSCIENCE, profit for themselves and shareholders is the only thing they can see and the results on people are not at all anything they care about.
How much pain will the voters have beaten into them before they actually realise it is THEM who have caused their suffering?

I saw Chalmers on SKY this morning, completely dodging EVERY question on what the Govt and the ACCC was doing about BS fuel prices, the national fuel stocks, the work being done (NONE by the way) in extracting our own oil, refining our own oil to 100% of the countries capacity (as Trump has brought back to the US) and just generally lying again because he isn't capable of correcting anything whatsoever. All he could say was that Chris Blowin' was onto it - the very bloke who blamed us all for using fossil-fueled farm and industrial equipment instead of toy self-destructing fireball Chinese electric city cars...
These c**ts are incapable of intellectual and collective thought, and who put them there?

These kinds of politicians worldwide, allowed the Iran brown-snake to grow to lethal size under your bed, and were too scared to do anything about it. Instead, they fed it in the hope it wouldn't bite them as they cowardly tip-toed around it. But it was always going to strike when it was ready, and so now the efforts to cut off it's head have turned the whole household upside down.
And then we all suffer the consequences of the reset of sanity.
And our gutless, incapable leaders are not even skilled enough to manage any temporary opportunistic side effects from the clean-out.
There is a solution, and that is to become self-sufficient and find some courage to do what has to be done.