Every where you look there is someone else who wants just another couple of billion to help their chosen ones.

No one should ever be given access to money for their hobby horse, unless they nominate who this money should be taken from.

When we are borrowing 200 million a day just to pay the bureaucrats, health care & the current welfare recipients, it is time to realise their just "AINT NO MORE" available.

We are currently destroying our defence force with over a billion a year in cuts. We are trying to destroy our golden egg laying goose with the mining tax, & send the pensioners & low income folk to the wall with a carbon tax. What is left.

So come on Rob, tell us what we should defund, & by how much, before you hold your hand out for even more than what you all ready get.

Hasbeen: tell us what we should defund, & by how much, before you hold your hand out for even more than what you all ready get.

I'll answer that for you Rob. Let me reiterate once again. Let's stop the crap & stop the flow of Aid money overseas & cut back on aid to boat people. This money is totally wasted on people that are going to enevitably die back to a manageable level in the future anyway.

Yes well I won't disagree with you there Jayb, we should be spending what we can afford in taking care of our own, rather than others. Still those savings, great as they may be, are only a drop in the bucket of what would be needed if we were to satisfy all the noisy folk, with a pet project they want funded.

Our socialists, & bleeding hearts have done a good of educating a section of our community that they can just vote for a living, rather than work for it. They of course then want to be provided with a very good living, by running their project.

I don't know how we get the whole of the population back to being productive, & providing for themselves, but unless we do, & do it quickly, we are bound for the trash heap, & will have no one to blame but ourselves.

The problem gets worse every time a so called asylum seeker boat arrives. How many homeless asylum seeker in Australia ZERO how many homeless Australians THOUSANDS, Juliar stop giving in to the "do gooders" Labor needs to do what New Zealand did and tell the asylum seekers not to come.
Cap't Emad had a house his wife also had a house and his son had a house in Canberra That is 3 for 1 family. If we start to do what the UN do and give them a tent or make them sleep on the streets maybe they will look for another sucker country.

Jayb,

Some years ago, the government closed down many mental facilities without making proper accommodation arrangements for many of those living there. These people are either now on the street, or are being exploited in sub-standard housing.

There are a variety of reasons people find themselves homeless. As discussed, the mentally ill, young people, even young families living out of cars.

Australia is on tract to becoming a third world country, the signs are already predominant with the abundant numbers of homeless Australian people. It is estimated that there is in excess of 200,000 (as per channel 7 A Current Affair) homeless people and growing.

There are many elements which have resulted in creating the homeless situation in Australia and many of them are the result of government policies such as foreign aid agreements with the likes of Nato, Lima, etcetera.

Selling off our assets to foreign investors, our farmland, mining and real estate. Many Australian business icons are foreign owned and many have relocatted to other countries resulting in the loss of Australian peoples jobs and incomes forcing them onto the welfare line.

Housing rentals have increased where an average home rental is between $300 to $400 a week, this is the result of less properties being available.
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