"I (ttbn) read recently that the most stable governments are all monarchies"

The country with the worlds largest and most expensive monarchy, Britain, is politically as stable as a three legged cow in a tornado. ttbn where do you get your information, how long did the Conservative nark Liz Trash last in office?

The biggest bleeding heart bleat today on all media is the housing crisis.

Where the hell are Albo's hundreds of thousands going to live other than to displace the bottom end of renters. This immigration will increase homelessness by a huge margin, & add hugely to the welfare budget.

Of course this is of no interest to the left, they need to import more left voters to shore up their numbers, & to hell with the rest of us.

Hasbeen.

The disconnect is rather simple to explain. I live in a very affluent town on the East Coast.
If this is any example, it explains the disconnect of politicians.

From roughly five years ago, rents in this area were increasing more than the normal ten percent bunged onto renters for no particular reason.

First came a highway upgrade and a need to house the workforce which stayed in the area for a couple of years. There was no provision to accommodate this workforce apart from crashing in on the local rental availability.

Next came Covid lockdowns and the rental and the housing market stabilised.
What followed was all hell braking loose at the easing of Covid restrictions.

At this point, the town was subjected to a merciless plunder where housing , in most cases doubled in price along with similar rises in rents, rents which in many cases known to me, tripled. Prices of rents and property values would be on parity with any similar city locations.

Now moving around town, the renter classes have evaporated and an obviously replaced by an up market middle cass have landed.
These are the environments the political class (elitists) move in.
This “cleansed of the grubby poor” is the environment which promotes fantasies of ecological disasters and remedies which promote panicked reactions to imagined catastrophies.

From this view of the perfect life, so incredibly divorced from the life of those under the hammer of unfettered and unregulated rents and unaffordable housing costs, policies are drawn up by politicians with not just total disregard to the pain and humiliation of homelessness, being forced from above with a lack of empathy and lack of normal human care, that we that are left to grow old will be visited by the vision of ignorance and total unfathomable stupidity.

Don’t vote.

Yes, Hasbeen. Bring in more migrants when we don't have enough homes for the current population and a rising shameful, homeless cohort!

Build a million new homes is the promise. How? Got to be mass produced in factories and then trucked onsite and connected/plugged in to pre-installed services.

This limits the need for trades, their prices and BS contracts that always blow out halfway through.

Get conscripts and the army involved and their increased apprenticeship program that sets young recruits up for life in civvy street.

For mine the frames would be steel, and the yards would be surrounded by colourbond steel fences. And give our own steel industry an extended and enduring shot in the arm.

Water tanks would be both mandatory and large (2 million litres) (fire insurance) as would septic tanks that allow black and grey water to be recycled, via underground (hygiene safety) tapes.

Flood plains would be farmland only and for labour intensive farming/market gardens etc.

Rapid rail would allow a lot more suitable adjacent urban lots to be rezoned and as such, all but pay for the rail project from the sale of the newly rezoned land!
Alan B.

In the last five years of the 'Morrison Mob' a million new dwellings were constructed in Australia, NO BIG DEAL! This is a slight of hand by Labor, a million new dwellings in the next five years, YES! And they were going to be built in the normal course of events anyway.

Love em' or hate em', its the GREENS who have a solid, workable, housing policy. The big two are offering NOTHING!

We see decent housing as a right not an aspiration for a select few.

http://greens.org.au/policies/housing-and-homelessness

Although most definitely not a Labor supporter, I didn't think they'd start stuffing up so early !
Even Abbott & Turnbull took longer before they lost direction !