$500 payments announced for Victorians.

It appears that if you elect a hopeless bunch of twits to government, you will be rewarded by the commonwealth with a gift of $500 of our money.

After stuffing just about everything they touch, & causing yet another lockdown to the determent of all Victorians, it is not going to be the Victorian government that picks up the bill, but the commonwealth.

Isn't their some way to sack this hopeless mob, & save usall a fortune, & probably a lot of lives?

The whole country's had it.

Someone told me yesterday that people who are released from jail get priority housing over others who've waited for years.
So if you need a home, go commit some crimes and get yourself a 3 to 6 month jail sentence.
It's called 'fast-tracking'.

Agree on the appalling Victorian government, and the idiots who voted them into power (they are either masochistic or insane); but, why the bloody hell did the federal clowns agree to give them money when they didn't have to. Because Morrison is buying votes for the next election, that's why.

In the meantime, while Morrison and Freydenberg are gushing about how well Australia is doing, they are keeping quiet about the fact that, over the last decade private investment in Australia (a lot of it in Victoria) has dropped from $45,000 million to $25,000 million.

Real financial geniuses are Morrison and Freydenberg - not.

It has been said by a person who actually is a financial genius that the best we can hope for since the Liberals went berserk with our money is a gentle decline in living standards,

ttbn,
The person who said that may well be a financial genius, but certainly isn't an economic genius. Technology is continually improving, making the workforce more productive, which should result in a gradual increase in living standards.

Can you say where you got the figures from? I understood the decline to be less than that, and that the sharpest decline occurred in the Abbott era. Abbott's policies often involved preventing the government from making worthwhile investments, based on the lie that the nation couldn't afford them. That, of course, may well result in a gradual decline in living standards.

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Armchair,
Those in greatest need get priority housing over those who are waiting but in less need.
Do you deny that's a sensible policy?
Do you deny that when people are released from prison, many of them are objectively in the greatest need group?

Hasbeen,

This is the whole problem with out our Federation: the states keep getting paid to stuff up. A federal government (let's face, a PM) who was interested in Australia's and Australian's wellbeing instead of merely his own political interests would put a stop to the nonsense by withholding taxpayer funds. This PM us handing out more!

Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg have been outfoxed by the Spring Street Soviet. Not only have they agreed to crisis support for hard-up Victorians trapped in Masochist Melbourne by the Andrews government’s open-ended fourth lockdown, they agreed yesterday to Victoria’s demand they build a bespoke quarantine facility near Avalon airport.(From a commentator this morning)