Dear Leaders of both Parties In Queensland, I am writing to find out if you have any policy for new housing for the people in QLD?
1.I have been on the housing commission list for years. I am a pensioner, that is in great need for a Housing Commission Unit. No one is saying anything on this point and it needs attention. I am sure the one that comes forth with any help for this area will be very pleased with the results. So many people need this housing to be available like it was in years gone by. Please, please, don't say 'you intend to doing something about it, in 2011,12,13,14,15,16,,' that is not suitable. Mr Rudd has used that line up. Its way past its used by date.
2.Kind Regards and Good Luck Annie

Great Question Bushieannie. You know why governments had money in years gone by? Because the Queen used to get lots and lots of money from what was called the Qui Tam action. The Queen in Queensland used to get about half the revenue from the courts, when they were not the private playgrounds of the lawyers.

It worked like this. If someone saw a crim at work, usually a white collar crim, they could charge him civilly in either the District Court or Supreme Court and instead of going to jail, the crim could pay a penalty and avoid any further consequences, half went to the prosecutor and half to the Queen.

Usually these settled quickly because if the cop was fair and square, the perp paid up, and avoided the publicity. The biggest crims today are the big banks. These have armies of lawyers working scams for them, and they justify their criminal activity as maximizing dividends for investors, like superannuation. Property developers, insurance companies, construction companies, legal companies, drug dealers, all offend and enough black money goes begging to buy all the houses we could possibly need.

Lawyers got control of the Rule making power of the Courts, and gave themselves, or some of their mates absolute power to dismiss or strike out these actions. But there is a snag. In 1497, King Henry VII was having the same problem. Judges and lawyers were getting together to defraud the revenue, by having Judges dismiss such cases so they made a law against it. From 1497, no such case was closed until a jury had given its verdict. This law was in force in 1900, and the Australian Courts Act 1828 and the Evidence Act 1995, (Cth) refers to such actions in the Other Expression (3). All we need is for a Judge somewhere to realize he has the worst job in Australia, and commit a crim to trial on a civil charge with a jury. We have eleven years of criminal activity under Federal Liberals, to catch up. There are plenty of fat cats out there need skinning.

Thank you for that very interesting reply.
But we need the "keepers" of Australia to answer us truthfully about housing. Not letting us get our hopes up by saying homes are coming. Politicians/and their helpers in crime, make life very difficult for every one,If they cant supply homes for their people. Let them get out of the way and let someone in that can. I am terrible disillusioned. Annie

Dear Bushyannie, I thought your post was an honest and open plea on a serious matter. Pensions and Commision Housing are in desperate need of review by all levels of Government and I don't see Seniors getting the attention these issues need.

You were kind to Peter the Believer when you said "Thank you for that very interesting reply".

There are however, some who might wonder what on earth he was talking about. The response seemed to lack any connection whatsoever with your plea for help and I am sadenned by it, I think it was quite offensive, irrelevant and rude.

Peter the Believer, you really do need to get back on your "meds". You are clearly not a well person, that is obvious. I trust that you have some sort of "carer" who might help you understand that you really do need to apologise and who should make sure you do, then have a nice lay down.

bushyannie, As one who has made an application to deliver a mixture of housing types on one site for our community you call is very remarkable as most who put themselves forward on this subject derive from the NIMBY set of pseudo-town planners without ever having actually tried to deliver housing except for themselves.

The term Housing Commission has changed and now is called social housing and its location is prescribed by local councils and their master state governments. Urban consolidation planning policies and its constraints which apply across all state capitals prescribe the location of social & affordable housing, in fact, where all housing must be located.

I would consider that building a mix of social housing say 6% & affordable housing 10%, and the rest as a balance would be acceptable, but no, the states and their councils prescribe high density and the failed practices of the past in clustering these types of housing altogether, out of sight out of mind, more than likely next door to the railway lines or in low lying areas which flood every 10-30yrs.

We would love to supply housing for you bushyannie, but as you probably guessed it, local and state governments have vested interests in the location and allocation of housing.

As we made application to deliver 485 homes and were next door to every conceivable service and infrastructure item, alas there are trees on the site, but you know they come before humanity, even if we saved over 40% of these for future residents and the possums.

As of today our application is being blocked, as it shows up government, for what they really are and want, and that is not better neighborhoods, but the old class divisions, physically build collectives.

We are weathering this application storm of denial by lazy council and government and may have to wait until the bottom of this inflated housing price debacle created by government regulation sorts itself out and more people are homeless until we can supply you shelter in a nice neighborhood, maybe in 5 years time. Sincerely yours, Dallas...

The irony is that you can build a dwelling that meets health and safety standards for about $25,000. Add to that the right of landholders to subdivide their land and build such dwellings on it, and there would be no housing crisis. House prices and rents would be much lower.

We call on government to provide a solution, yet it is the restriction of rights by government, and the unsatisfactory and at times corrupt administration of those rights, that has created the housing crisis.