Welcome to blog, My World Diary May 2024.
In this blog we write a bit of everything. Anyhow, this is my diary of April and May 2024. Because in April there
was no new happenings, so, I thought it was the same old story, the war in Ukraine,
the war in the Middle East, and the rental problems that we have in Australia, I
thought better wait for the new budget to come out, before I post this new article.
But let us say what happened briefly while we wait for the budget, hoping that
this government does something to improve the situation. So, to start with, let
me post what I have found on the internet, and
lately it is about the violence against women.
(And I quote)
Sky News host Andrew Bolt has urged both the
Labor and Coalition governments to deal with the “social disaster” for young
people which is rentals.
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The average rent for a house in Sydney has jumped to $750,
compared to $570 in Melbourne and $620 in Brisbane.
“Rents have just gone crazy,” Mr Bolt said.
“This is driven in large part by the Federal government’s insane
decision to bring in more than half a million immigrants a year.
“When we are not building anything like enough houses for them.”
Property Council of Australia CEO Mike Zorbas says the federal
government needs to “apply a lot more cash” to state and local governments to
unlock the housing supply.
The cost of living crisis was one of the key issues in last
night’s budget, with a major focus on increasing housing with billions of
dollars allocated to the sector.
“There could be more money, I say gratefully, you know the
government is certainly doing the right thing, and previous governments have
not done enough in this space,” Mr Zorbas told Sky News Australia.
This is what I found on the internet. We will continue to talk about rental, when we look at this year budget.
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Now let us talk about violence against women.
But it is also one of many meetings going on right now as
politicians are pushed to finally do something serious to protect women at
immediate risk and, hopefully, reduce the numbers who find themselves in that
situation.
This week there has been a meeting of national cabinet, a police
ministers meeting, and others in various states, including a meeting of the NSW
Cabinet on Friday.
But it is also one of many meetings going on right now as
politicians are pushed to finally do something serious to protect women at
immediate risk and, hopefully, reduce the numbers who find themselves in that
situation.
This week there has been a meeting of national cabinet, a police
ministers meeting, and others in various states, including a meeting of the NSW
Cabinet on Friday.
The frustration
from many in the community was palpable after Wednesday's national
cabinet meeting. The announcement that an existing pilot scheme to help the
immediate needs of women fleeing violence with a package
of assistance worth $5,000, and some measures to address online misogyny, was
met with quite a lot of "is that it?" disbelief, even if it involved
new spending of $925 million over five years.
(End of quotes)
This is what I found about violence against women, and it is shocking, it makes me wonder what is wrong with mankind.
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Now let us talk about the wars.
On the internet
Ukraine killed more
than 100 of Putin’s troops in a ballistic missile strike in what could
be the largest loss of Russian troops in months.
A drone flying high above
ground captured the moment multiple explosions hit a military training ground
in occupied Luhansk, some 48 miles behind the frontlines.
The attack is typical of an ATACMS tactical ballistic missile, which
showers clusters of hundreds of M74 APAM mini-bombs on targets up to 190 miles
away.
It would have taken as little as 95 seconds to wipe out more than
100 Russian troops, pictured on
aerial imagery standing next to trees, dirt tracks and an open field.
Footage shows a second area hit not far from the first, with a third
strike over a forest. There is a lot more that could be said, with loss of
lives on both sides, but let us look at the other war.
The war in the Gaza Strip is just as bad, or perhaps even worse than the
Ukraine war. It started because Hamas killed over A thousand people and took
hostages about 150 Israelite people. Now over 35000 people have died in the
Gaza Strip, there are talks about ceasing hostilities, but they do not seem to
come to an agreement how to do it.
I think it is not easy to find an agreement, because these two races
have been on and off at war, since the beginning of current Era. But let us
hope they stop this war soon.
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About this year budget and rentals.
I have been waiting for this budget, hoping that it would do
something new that could solve the rental problems. But this year budget does
not do anything, it only makes a small improvement for renters, since they get
more rent assistance, but a lot more is needed to improve the rental situation.
For what I understand, the governments are going to spend a lot of money to
build more rentals, but even that cannot be enough. So, this present government
have no idea how to solve the rental situation. I believe that the real problem
is the affordability issue, and that there is not enough money on rentals, so,
the people that have got money invest somewhere else.
Anyhow, in answer to this budget on house affordability and
rentals, the opposition leader Peter Dutton said that, if they were in government,
they would find a way how to make it more affordable to buy a house, how they
are going to do that, I do not know, but at least they think to do something
about it. Now if they can do that the rental problem is half solved, because if
housing becomes cheaper also rental will become cheaper.
But here I must point out that there could be a problem, the
biggest political problem is the green party, that don’t like the landlords and
want to take away their properties and give it to the poor rent free. What they
do not realize is that some landlords might be just as poor as the renters, they
just survive because they have a strict budget. Here I also need to point out,
that there are no real have not in Australia, since people can get help form
Centrelink, and get a fixed income, whereas the landlord might be poor, but
cannot get anything from the government, because of the unjust assets test that
takes away three time as much as they can earn, from their properties.
Anyhow, what I want to say here is that they should stop blaming
the landlords, because the landlords run a service to the community, and to be
a landlord is one of the hardest things to do. So, stop blaming them and try to
solve this problem together. This is all I want to say this time, but I am sure
that I will write again about rental soon, when I find out something that
points out why we are having this rental shortage.
To see more click on this link, My World Diary May 2024.
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