As to the drug problem.... it's a matter of public resolve...no resolve no solution.
Personally I'd produce a variety of drugs for free daily distribution out of some remote rural area and I'd provide a free one way ticket to that destination.
Entitlement would be on contribution of 4 hours/day doing whatever tasks were deemed essential.

As to those who are economic migrants....the rural locations await you and any social payments are to be collected from those areas from empathetic public servants eager to advise them of all benefits as may apply to them.

As to the social re-balancing I'd have a limit on public service, employment say eight years maximum, that way everyone can experience an indolent lifestyle where reality dare not enter, and everyone can gain work experience of some sort.

Like I said, 'public resolve'....without it you have what you have

leoj,

No, my mind is not made up and it certainly
is not set in concrete, on the contrary.
That is why I keep referencing experts on
the issues involved to give as broad a
range of perspectives as possible - showing
from their experience what works and what
does not. It in no way was directed at anything
you may have posted because I actually rarely
read most of what you write and post for
obvious reasons. I usually scroll past your
posts although I do admit that on the rare
occasion you do surprise me at times with some
lucidity. Most of the time though it's the same
old predictable stuff. No offence intended.

Have a nice day.

ilmessaggio,

Yes, without 'nudges' in the right direction, nothing happens.

Where the country houses are concerned, there has to be some reasonableness and practical thinking too.

You can't have welfare recipients or welfare bureaucrats knocking back as 'unsuitable' the homes that self-funded families have lived in and enjoyed.

All have to be seen to be contributing too.

There is no reason why moveable housing shouldn't be used and relocated where necessary. Most retirees have to pay for and maintain their own and very modest many of them are too, small caravans and motor vans.

Room to engage some well experienced grey nomads to advise and work part time? Why not?

Shifting the homeless has been done in Australia before. During the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the State government "bused" many of Sydney's homeless to Newcastle for a fortnight.

In the US, some east coast states pay the air fare of their homeless to migrate to sunny Hawaii. Around Honolulu tents can be seen all over the place.

Confronted with the dangers of a possible heavy handed forced eviction by NSW police, the residents of Sydney's Martin Place tent city peacefully vacated the site on Friday. Many have nowhere to go despite the spin of Social Housing Minister Pru Goward that all residents had been offered alternative accommodation. What Goward failed to say was this offer was mostly temporary, lasting only a few days in some cases.

Its all about shifting the problem, and not permanent solutions.

The Greens and Labor wouldn't want to lose their rent-a-crowd serial protesters for headlines, would they, Paul1405?

Many of the seniors who are being ruthlessly forced out of their homes so that favoured entrepreneurs can make $$ off their backs - the homes and environments they are familiar with and where they raised their families and likely their own parents in their old age as well - have purchased mobile homes, even vans, and cheap housing on fringes and in country areas, Tasmania as well.

There is NO shortage of land in Australia. There are broad hectares of cheap land with services and often within short walking distance of the centre of town.

For the claimed 'homeless' who are despoiling Sydney's cbd and are depositing their rubbish and turds over the dunes on Southport dunes and parklands (with refuse bins and toilets near), there are ready made solutions NOW, in country towns and permanent, not temporary.

It is obviously one thing for the bothering leftists, the chardonnay International Socialist elite ensconced in public sinecures in academia, public service jobs and as seat-polishing Senators, to be sledging old people, pensioners, empty nesters (with some extra room for grandkids to prop for a while), to sell out and move into smaller housing, cheap banged-up granny units with shared facilities and no privacy, BUT it is quite another for claimed
'homeless' to be requested to move where the housing is available, in country areas.

The Greens and Shorten's 'Progressives' (Regressives) despise the elderly and plot to take away everything they have scrimped and saved for lifetimes to pay for. Even when they are dead the plundering leftists seek to take their estates.

What is Australia coming to that we allow greedy, self-serving, self-entitled urban hipsters and Chinese who defraud own country's rules against exporting large sums of money, to force seniors out of their homes and into the hands of wealthy entrepreneurs, many again from China (and with sorry histories where the trusting public are concerned, overseas and here too)?

Hey leoj,
I'm a big supporter of removeable housing.
I think the quality of these types of homes today is excellent and I think we could address our housing problem with big factories where these homes would come custom ordered and directly off production lines delivered and connected in 48hrs.
The government alone would save billions, and consumers would have access to less expensive options in aquiring a first home.
This idea is greatly improved by the need for better road and rail, which is why I advocate for my national infrastructure project, and socialist base-level employment scheme.

It's not in anyway because I support socialism, (my idea actually strengthens capitalism, seeks to find the right balance) but instead support people out of work having greater opportunies to get on their feet, and a more efficient way of managing our nation.

I can take a top down look at the issues, and like dominoe's, fixing one problem right at the top level, (this one issue) will allow us to simultaneosly fix all the other problems as well.

All you need is a little bit of smart thinking, something our leaders lack.
And it's not hard, if you just look at the problems properly, the answers present themselves.