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If 'business as usual' is so utterly broken, why do we keep doing it? : Comments

By Ross Elliott, published 28/10/2025

We’ve diagnosed the disease but keep prescribing the same medicine. Why Australia’s planning and infrastructure systems can’t stop doing what doesn’t work.

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#…If 'business as usual' is so utterly broken, why do we keep doing it?…#

Answer:
Believe it or not, too many people in this wide brown land, are too comfortable to give a toss!

I keep reading these misanthropic articles of Ross, in the slim hope that one day the urgency of the dreadful state of the Australian housing market and its overall depressing effect on ordinary Joes, might actually appear to matter to him: I wish myself the best of luck for that one to happen.
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 7:01:15 AM
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Except it's not "business as usual" Ross. Immigration only exceeded 200K for the very first time, around 2007. Now, Albanese Labor is keeping it above 250-300K, permanently. With this unnecessary excess demand locked in for good, I guarantee you, our cities will continue to be world leaders in rental pain and housing un-affordability, for our children and grandchildren.

This is the latest set of big fibs from Housing Minister O'Neil, and she's getting away with it. "Real progress. For the first time in a decade, new homes are being built faster. Better supply chains. More workers. More homes getting finished sooner. Look, the housing challenge we're facing are really serious and have been brewing for 40-years."
Posted by Steve S, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 7:23:35 AM
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Nothing is going to change while there is mass immigration, high government costs and Labor governments.

In SA last night on the news, the Premier was banging on about allowing higher chicken coops to be built in Adelaide - despite builders continually saying that the chicken coops are too expensive to build, even with the communal bathrooms his idiot government has just legislated for.

There is only one solution: fewer people.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 7:53:38 AM
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Immigration levels now rival cost of living as Australia's top concern.

If Canberra would take notice and curtail their own immigration policies, and those of universities shadow immigration of foreign students, there would be no housing/rental crises, and GDP per capita and cost of living would improve.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 8:37:16 AM
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Australia’s population is about to hit 28 million within a year because of mass immigration. (ABS). Australia is one of the “fastest changing countries in the world”. Our rate of population growth is higher than India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. 2.1% - twice that of the U.S; seven times higher than France.

Australians are not re-producing themselves. The increase is all down to maniacal mass immigration that accounts for 3 times the natural growth.

“Life under the uniparty’s mass migration regime is simply too stressful and too expensive to raise kids and start a family”.

Just this month the immigration minister conceded that there were worries about but RULED OUT setting targets,

There should be a target of zero for the foreseeable future.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 9:29:20 AM
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In 2022, Albanese wanted a “legacy”. He is quoted as saying, “I’m in politics to do legacies”.

While it might not have been the legacy he wants to be remembered for, crippling mass immigration is the one he will have to own.

In his first term, he brought in 1.3 million people, nobody voted for. It was one of the highest intakes, per capita, in the world.

We are expecting another 260,000 next year, stabilising to 225,000. But it could be more - with the lies we have become accustomed too. And he might get a third term.

Wake up Australians!
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 11:17:50 AM
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Too many public Servants, too many on welfare, too many unproductive, too many stupid, too many useless That's the Nations dilemma & the longer this Federal administration is in power the longer it'll take to recover if recovery will still be possible by the time Labor goes that is.
Yes, Australians need to wake up. If they refuse it'll be pointless to care.
There needs to be a deterrent/repercussion for people who wilfully make themselves unemployable.
Posted by Indyvidual, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 11:27:50 AM
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Its been revealed that the number of old farts in the community is going to double by 2050, and the number of super old farts, that's those over 85 is going to triple in the same time. These old farts are mostly single, and living in 6 bedroom houses. I say move them into tents, and there will by lots of spare houses for the young folks and the blow ins!
Posted by Paul1405, Wednesday, 29 October 2025 8:01:11 PM
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Bonger from Nimbin 1405

Dear oh dear Bonger: would you also include into your pogrom against the aged, women of similar age as well?

In the year 1405 , (A tag year you’ve chosen), it could be significant and right to mention at this point, Christine de Pizan published her feminist critique: The Book of the City of Ladies, in which she challenged misogynistic stereotypes.

I’d hate to think you were in any way misogynistic, and would be sorely disappointed in you if you were not true to your Leftist inclusive nature with your wish for justice and equality.

And should you wish upon me too, your long time fan, to move out of my four bedroom apartment overlooking the yellow sands of the beach and the beautiful blue Pacific? Surely not; I’d be shocked!
Posted by diver dan, Wednesday, 29 October 2025 8:48:11 PM
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Bonger from Nimbin 1405

Dear oh dear Bonger: would you also include into your pogrom against the aged, women of similar age as well?

In the year 1405 , (A tag year you’ve chosen), it could be significant and right to mention at this point, Christine de Pizan published her feminist critique: The Book of the City of Ladies, in which she challenged misogynistic stereotypes.

I’d hate to think you were in any way misogynistic, and would be sorely disappointed in you if you were not true to your Leftist inclusive nature with your wish for justice and equality.

And should you wish upon me too, your long time fan, to move out of my four bedroom apartment overlooking the yellow sands of the beach and the beautiful blue Pacific? Surely not; I’d be shocked
Posted by diver dan, Wednesday, 29 October 2025 8:49:19 PM
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Bonger 1405.

Is this a Freudian slip? I’ve posted twice; I must really mean it!
Posted by diver dan, Wednesday, 29 October 2025 8:55:22 PM
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Nuremberg Dan,

Good to hear from one of my devoted fans. I've done my research, 'Tent City' has a special on the One Man (or One Woman, the chicks are in, no misoygy with me, hell no, someones got to wash the dishes) Nylon Disaster Tent for $20, or 10 quid in the old money for the old farts! I envisage a sprawling metropolis of tents, by the year 2050, millions in fact, in the new berg of Fartsberg, strategically located about 500 clicks west of Alice Springs, or about 300 miles as the crow fly's in the old money, although I don't think any crow with half a brain, would want to fly there! Can I count you in on my brilliant idea?
Posted by Paul1405, Thursday, 30 October 2025 4:45:30 AM
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the number of old farts in the community is going to double by 2050
Paul1405,
You're one of them ! How will you support yourself if your ideas will be implemented ?
Don't tell me, you'll Iive off your taxpayer funded Super ?
Posted by Indyvidual, Thursday, 30 October 2025 6:07:01 AM
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Bonger of Nimbin.

And a lovely Koala bear day to you.

#… someones got to wash the dishes…#

And can I get on board with the “Bare foot and pregnant” rest of the quote part?
Never too old!
She can move into one of the spare bedrooms, which might qualify me to stay in my luxury accommodation overlooking not only the beach, bit the local homeless camps across the street.

Or maybe as a generous and magnanimous gesture to those homeless, like the wealthy class, spend one night pretending to be homeless for Charity, and of course the PR stunt value.
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 30 October 2025 10:54:39 AM
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