Inflation, Housing Affordability, Welfare and the Mining Boom

Inflation, Housing Affordability, Welfare and the Mining Boom
4th March 2008

Housing prices have tripled in Western Australia over the last 8 years and we have seen very little action taken on dealing with this issue with the Western Australian State Government. Rather, they have built a ‘wonderful’ railway line to Mandurah. In the mean time Environmentalists and Native land claims have also contributed to the acute shortage of land in this state, where, once the land is claimed, is used as a tool to make royalties from mining or agriculture for Native ‘Owners’. I have never heard of a person on this planet being entitled to land like this. Of course the Indians have their reservations, but nothing like the ridiculous amounts of land liquidation we have seen all over Australia.
If Aborigines wish to benefit from our Economy, they must do this one, plain, simple thing. If they wish to have the ‘land’, then so be it, but never shall a person who lives or partially lives on that land should receive any welfare or Government money.
Otherwise, negotiations must resume directly with the Government to return this issue to a sane balance, where only 10% of land in Australia at maximum shall be ‘titled’ to native recipients. And then we should not allow welfare to be handed out to the natives or anyone any more. Welfare was meant to tide people over, but these days it helps people buy big TVs, alcohol and helps immigrants to exploit our economy courtesy of hard working Australians.
Whoever wishes to confront this problem effectively, shall have to hit the environmentalists on the head (the EPA) and the Native Land Title Claimants, current and receivers. We should not allow minority groups to determine Government policy where the Government merely becomes puppets to set themselves in front of media to look as though something is being done.
Housing in the North West is extremely expensive and this alongside Aborigine public housing, often wrecked and Government money kept being poured on the ‘social’ problem to take responsibility for the houses. So you have an extremely unfair situation unfolding, where workers (non-indigenous-Very few are Aborigine even though Government programs are encouraging ‘equal opportunity’) are working very hard for high wages, yet are being punished with the cost of living. The Aborigines get a free ride in their Government supplied housing, and usually are on welfare. They don’t earn any money, amongst a worker shortage, and are using Government money to live. Where is the logic in this? We have become a social state where we don’t think logically. No wonder there is no common sense around.
The Railway stations in Perth should be developed so that apartment/hotel/shopping centres are built on top of all of them, thus making use of the public transport system. The Public transport system should be re-worked as well so that buses are used to ‘feed’ train stations (buses feeding from the same main road every 5-10 minutes in peak hour), and industrial/commercial areas enjoying heavy bus services so that people can get to work easily using public transport. This would mean buses making a round route service from a nearby train station often, especially in peak periods. This would also allow less cars to be used in these busy areas where the mining boom is making them busier.
The Train station mega-complexes would envelop better car parking as well, and the vast amount of permanent accommodation to be made available would lower the demand in outer suburbs, thus curbing inflation. Releasing free land in the North West would do the same for the Perth Metropolitan area, but we need to concentrate in dense residential in the Northwest cities of Port Hedland, Karratha, Broome, Kununurra and as well as Perth. Allowing developers to build triple story townhouses thus making better use of less land in the Perth Metro would also be a good solution to the demand of accomodation in Western Australia. Unfortunately, with the cost of housing all over Western Australia (which is the least populated state per square kilometre yet the largest in Australia), we are going to see some very painful financial times ahead, unless a Western Australian Government determines to make the tough decisions to go ahead and do what needs to be done. Supply demand.

In the mining boom, this will need to be on those terms, ‘boom’, which is massive.

The worker shortage in this state is absolutely contributing to housing demand (and supply shortages). It is the Government’s responsibility to act accordingly and manage this responsibly. This hasn’t occurred and we are going to wear the consequences.

Prime Minister John Howard Vindicated on 'Sorry Day'

Letter to The West Australian, 20th Feb 2008-02-20

Prime Minister John Howard Vindicated


Several 'unionists' writing disdainfully in your letters pages of Prime Minister John Howard's rumoured 'Order of the Garter' have stated only specific issues with which to ridicule him with. In fact these so called writers ignored the fact that John Howard was elected because the Unions were so powerful they needed sorting out, and sort them out he did.
Not only this, but he was re-elected 3 more times and the last time with a powerful majority in both houses. It was only the successful propaganda ran by heavyweight unions (loaded with cash) that scared the life out of the voters.
PM John Howard has been fully vindicated, and even more so, since he refused to attend the 'Sorry Day' last week in Parliament. As Brendan Nelson mentioned there will be no compensation, many indigenous people turned their backs on him. If the Aboriginal people, like Noel Pearson, admitted their problems, they would then be admitting that they would have to solve them (which Noel Pearson is doing rather well). No, it is up to Mr Rudd to say Sorry and for his state counterparts to hand out the large sums of money to already welfare dependant people who due to the Socialist dogma imposed on them often live lives of destruction, with no meaning or purpose.
As soon as the apology was over, call upon call was made for compensation by individuals and special interest lobby groups, obviously intent on pocketing sums of money to keep them going and assure a culture of endless welfare dependency.
Although Mr Howard has shown strong leadership and is gutsy for standing on his principles which I deeply admire him for, it will take much more to cease welfare dependency altogether in this great nation of Australia, where Aborigine children die all too often as children, and get raped whilst in the care of their parents.
John Howard was vindicated in the most extreme sense by the reaction to Mr Nelson's comments and most importantly the calls for compensation. As we have an extremely large problem with welfare dependency by the current indigenous people, with Government too scared to 'force' them into work, or to live off the land (since much of Australia is theirs now), we are not going to do any good at all by throwing more money at the problem. They will keep drinking and having babies with foetal alcohol syndrome unless we establish the fact that before they were 'given rights' in the 1960's, they worked for their money and were responsible for themselves.
These days it is the reverse, with the Government being forced to take responsibility and working for them by handing out welfare, which is encouraging Politicians to pump up Government even more to what it shouldn't be, the nanny state.

The Biggest 'Sorry' Mistake in Australia's History

What about the sorry from the UK for all the white children taken from their parents and shipped to Australia? Someone tell me about that!

From Andrew Bolt.

IN two weeks Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will make a deadly mistake. He plans to apologise to a "stolen generation" no one can actually find, writes Andrew Bolt.

In fact, he'll say sorry to children who don't exist, to keep alive a myth that is killing children who do.

Mad, but true, as Tasmania's Premier, Paul Lennon, simply confirmed last week when he gave $5 million to Aborigines he falsely claimed had been "stolen" from their families "on the basis of race".

How good Lennon felt as he shovelled out the cash. He was helping "reconciliation", he boasted, by giving up to $58,000 a head to 84 Aborigines who'd been stolen for racist reasons, and a few thousand dollars apiece to another 22 people whose parents had been likewise snatched.

He even urged Rudd to follow his example and cough up compo of his own when he said his sorry: "I hope he looks at Tasmania and see what we have been able to achieve here."

And, yes. Let's indeed look at Tasmania. Please.

Some scrutiny would be a healthy change given that the media, which happily reported Lennon's untruths, has so far shown zero interest in examining who was actually getting his money, and on what evidence.

Read the rest here.

Leftist Arab Conspiracy Theories Try To Move Blame Away From Dangerous Islamist Idealogy To The US Government

Why, wouldn't it be so great if the Islamist terrorists didn't get blamed for their actions. Every time a suicide bomber blows himself up in Iraq, and then the 9/11 attacks, the USA gets blamed. How good is that? They can continue their murderous ways as long as they like in that case. One leftist thinks paying the 'terrorists' in Iraq the sum of money the US Department of Defence is spending on its requirements to keep Iraq secure, would end the terrorism (Afghanistan too). Unfortunately, these people don't think of the consequences, like, the terrorists could use the money to buy surface to air missiles and shoot down airliners. Now, didn't we say leftists have no vision or idea of 'consequences'? This is not appeasement (leftism is far more treacherous these days!), but clear support for terrorism and the objectives of it. Peace warriors have no morals, that is a foregone conclusion now.

In this incident, which has not shown up on the new high tech leftist radar screens, an Air France jet was hijacked in Algiers in 1994. It was going to do a similar operation that of the 9/11 terrorist New York and Washington tragedies.

Power Bills Set To Double Courtesy Environmentalist Movement

Many people are probably very happy about this, knowing they are 'saving the environment' while countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil continue to log their rainforests.

Why can't we use the massive landmass of Australia to plant trees? It would be a massive investment in our future and we would be able to capture a large market for hardwood timber in the next 100 years. And then we wouldn't have to 'double' our electricity costs.

Since I am not 'into carbon emissions' can I please only have to pay half of my power bill?

Muslims on Rampage in Most Politically Correct State in Australia-Victoria

SIXTY teenagers, many of them wielding knives, ran amok in Melbourne's northwest yesterday, leaving a trail of vandalism, assaults and robberies.

The rampaging youths attacked bystanders and robbed a shop in Moonee Ponds before moving through Essendon and Highpoint shopping centre at Maribyrnong.

From The Herald Sun.

What do you get when you are so tolerant towards your enemies? Well the above is a clue.

Citizenship Test Failing Because Some People Fail, Says Labor!

Labor is so left they obviously see any kind of exam as a threat to them. That is why their education policy will be flawed as well, they simply don't believe in testing, and if they did, they would make the test so easy that it would let those pass who would fail a proper test anyway (so we would have some pretty daft engineers, doctors, financial advisors and accountants out there soon!).

Andrew Bolt says exactly what I think here.

HOW odd. The Rudd Government claims it will keep the test that we make migrants sit to qualify as citizens. But there's a catch.

Because the test fails exactly the people you'd expect, Immigration Minister Chris Evans now wants to change the questions.

Yes, it's that simple and that stupid. Evans wants to make sure the kind of people who now rightly fail the test will pass it more easily, especially if they have no English.

So why have a test at all?

Read the rest here.