Yeah, well Libs need to show some backbone before we hopefully get that result. And find some decent policies to lower the cost of living that Albo and Co. allowed to grow rampant.
Its the petrol and cost of living on top of Coles and Woolies wacking prices up so high you look for the out of date items to survive. Cost of living is out of control. On the Gold Coast, tent city in the parks to top it off. Albo it's a shame as your Labour Party spends more and inflation outstrips income for the average Australian right now in 2024. Absolute Disgrace to the working poor.
My deaf grandmother who is physically frail barely gets an age pension in her retirement and she gets less money than a job seeker. My great aunt, her sister, who has assets valued in the 10s of millions and has four active passive incomes from owned properties her husband leases out, she still receives a pension on top of that. Why are we enabling the greedy rich to become richer and the poor to become poorer? Thanks Australian people, this is all your fault.
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
This would be Albo's answer to people who can't afford to buy fuel, "buy an EV". Albo and Labor in general are so ignorant and stupid I almost expect it.
Those people are the ones who can not afford to buy a car. What a joke expecting people to buy a new EV car when they can barely afford to pay the bills or save money for a rainy day
I'm afraid that it's only News Corp that's being defunded by it's formerly paying customers. Subscribers are just disappearing like magic down the tubes. Then there's that 2 billion defamation settlement with Smartmatic in the US coming up. News Corp is being so handsomely well defunded presently that they and those in their troll farms must be wondering where to next? 😮😢
@@EL_Duderino68 What does his fake name have to do with the defunding of the ABC. I imagine if he used his real name, his attitude would not be any different. The ABC announcer knows that if he asked the hard questions that Paul in many vids, he'd probably get the sack for daring to get the truth out of Albo. Albo feels safe because he won't have to face the hard questions on that government station.
Us Kiwis are way ahead of you, we stopped watching our woke media, now they're going broke and are stopping TV3 news and TV1 news is facing big cuts. No one has sympathy for them, they bought it on themselves.
The cannabis truth cover up being lived and enjoyed in Canada most of America and to a small point Canberra etc etc etc is the main reason for all hysteria distraction crisis for the last 10 years the truth has been pouring out all over the world panicking all the groups who profit from evil sickness suffering misery and death,it's obvious our current leadership isn't interested in living proof and truth regarding cannabis and I would guess all are heavily invested and influenced by big pHarma and that is why they are silent pretending to not understand or be unaware,we have laws regulation and understanding regarding cannabis which is clearly wrong and the leaders of our country don't seem to care? The media also seems not interested in apologising for a hundred years of needless disgusting and hurtful cannabis prohibition and misinformation
It’s pretty disgusting when you consider we don’t live in a third world country but many are doing it so tough that it feels like we do. Bob Hawke promised no child would live in poverty so time ago but unfortunately Albo and his circus government seem hell bent on making sure many children do live in poverty and none of these clowns seem to even care!
Labor will continue to spiral our country into an abyss of poverty unless Australians wake up and start putting them and the Greens last on the ballot paper. 😎👊👍🇦🇺
Ahhh....Bob and his often repeated lie. I'm guessing all the P.M.'s (both sides) have them, the latest is ALBO's $275-............Rudd, Keating, Abbott, Gillard, Fraser, etc..... = All painted with the same brush.
@@gregoryray9920 LNP or ALP, doesn' matter who, both are parties made to enrich the party members and not the country they lead. Same as it is in the UK, same as the US and same as CAD. We're done for.
@@daisy8297 Also the rich boomers who do not need a pension because they have assets and other forms of passive income, are still getting a pension. The aged care system costs us 70% of the entire welfare budget guys, it's literally killing our country. But we can't help the modern youth? We gotta fill the pockets of the older generations? Why? What did the boomers ever do for me in Australia? They took away my gun rights as I was born, I cannot walk down the street without requiring my ID on me for fear of a police officer demanding my ID or arresting me for not identifying. I hate this place but they make it impossible to leave. Why can we not immigrat to the UK, Canada or other commonwealth nations? Why are we a joke disguised as a first world country? Why are the working class so dumb? You've let this happen, we fringe 'extremists' told you all for years and years it was happening and you all instead scoffed at us and said it was fine as it was. Is it fine now assholes?
@@goodo4668 not to mention the extra weight of these vehicles contributes to roads breaking up faster and thus more pollution created just in road maintenance, there’s so much more to EVs that people don’t wish to acknowledge and all they want to push is how they don’t emit pollution when being driven which is the only time they are actually better than ICE vehicles for the environment
@@martindavis2295 Where are they going?? Please tell us all. Have you ever been to remote communities in northern Australia? Being someone who grew up in the outback I know there are no jobs. I was forced to move to the city because when 15 people graduate from school the 4 businesses can not hire all the students. Apart from the few companies you got a choice on farm hand or dole bludger
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
Agreed all big decisions like foregn aid, budget etc should include the publics vote,i feel everything is far too hidden and too much is getting passed without us knowing
So a party with 21% of the vote should form government? But what if they only win 29% of all seats? It means they have to form an alliance with one or more parties. Pretty unstable. And the people who bitch about preferences putting party A over the line would be bitching about minor parties C and D forming an alliance with party B to create a government.....
@@adam7868 How many votes a year do you want? Hold a budget over until the next lot of foreign aid is requested? How exactly do people vote on a budget? What's the question put to voters? As referenda are only about the constitution, how will a vote on the budget be binding?
@@nevillewran4083 its easy, in the case of foreign aid you vote if money should be spent on a particular country, and for budget you give a list of priorities and you order them like you order political candidates ie you allocate more money to farmers then to people drugged out of their brains on centrelink
As for your other question please note there are important topics.anything small the government should be trusted to handle him/herself ide say probably 2 a year one for budget and one for foreign aid
I can't even fill my tank, and I can't visit anyone. This country is ridiculous. My mortgage has gone up $300 a fortnight, and they think that money can just come out of no where
Just get a job bro! It's easy once you have a job you know? That's what all the elderly boomers keep telling me that if I just get a job and work extra hard, I too can own a home, a car and find a wife and family with the magic of Boomer retardation.
I own & drive a 1998 Mitsubishi I've had for 4 yrs.I bought it for $300. Go buy an EV ! What with ! The age pension is my only income.My budget rarely works.I need a car due to where I'm forced to live in a caravan with an annexe.God help me if the car breaks. A new car of ANY type is impossible so Bowen & Albo are deluded fools.
Yes, I agree, him and Bowen, both a pair of idiots with delusions of grandeur. Yessh, chweepa ewetwicity. And smarmy smirk face who can't pronounce nuclear ( nicleer )
You can't have LNP heaven on earth under SloMo forever you know. But no matter, I reckon you can still afford Sky News and enjoy a good nightly rev up sitting in front of the After Dark rantings and ravings in favour of the LNP. It's not heaven like it was under SloMo but you get to grizzle and gripe a lot more. That's pretty good! 🤭😋
@@TyronepeaderI happened to see this video on a friends phone You Tube so don't you dare to point the finger unless you know me which,fortunately for me ,you don't. The week I buy petrol I eat baked beans 3 days of that week. Thank you for your concern.
@@PhilipShand Happy ranting and grizzling. Remember to keep blaming Labor just like Sky News tells you to. If you have some intelligence, you might try to do some thinking for yourself. 🤔
@@Tyronepeader Reality is not a rant.Not having enough for food,shelter & power is not a rant & constantly being lied to by the government is not a rant.Having to see a group of know-it-all incompetants preach at,not to,the entire population as if they were ill-educated children is not a rant. The relevant ministers know nothing of their portfolios for which they get paid absurd amounts of YOUR tax money,lucrative benefits for life,don't know the price of petrol because they now get chauffer-driven in a fleet of electric BMW cars,charge you for living 10k out of Canberra....... Christ,man,wake up to yourself.....your anus must be huge because you're being screwed sideways & don't even feel it.If you were in the US you'd probably be wearing a red cap backwards.
This info is so true. E.g. at the pub a glass of wine is $12...ergo...it is cheaper to drink at home. Restaurants are out of reach. Petrol prices determine where you drive or how often. Gas and electricity are up over 40%. A 9 pack of toilet rolls in Coles was $9.50 ...now they are $13.50 for the sane item. Dry cat food was $5 per pack now same thing is $7. Keep pointing these things out bec Labor thinks th a t by talking about doing something about cost of living means they actually are. The worst govt in history.
If you’re earning an income that grants you a $20 per week tax cut in July, it would have been $0 under the previous stage 3 structure. If you don’t want the $20, I’ll happily take it lol
@@6braceface while tax on fuel puts the price of everything up. Not even going to go into Labor's energy policies and how much it raises not only home costs but any and every product or service. That $20 is taken back 500 times over
@@arroeducarlion4990 Yes, fuel and the associated tax is an input cost for many goods or services. But Australia is a net importer of petrol and diesel, global prices have surged in the last few years and no government can solve that. We’re a heavily integrated economy and increased energy prices are part of the risk we incur. Would you support nationalisation of our resources to avoid this?
@@lonnie224 Politicians are going to eat caviar regardless of whether you and I get a tax break or not. For me, it’s an extra $44 a week compared to the old stage 3 which was about half of that. Hard to complain about this change in isolation.
Our local servo has petrol for 1.90 while others hav 2.28. Lack of competition is an issue. Also the servo with 1.90 petrol keeps the same price till the tank runs out, while others fluctuate despite still using same fuel they got restocked a week ago at cheaper price
Yes we are paying tax on the top of the tax ! Where are the money going? It used to support our roads! We have roads like Swiss cheese ,the new roads are built by private companies and if you want to use them you have to pay more ,what country are we leaving in?
What did you expect paul did you think those short costs in those labour tax cuts were free of course you'll pay them back in other ways and fuel is one of them.
I don’t smoke, drink, go out and can barely afford to put petrol in my car because I struggle to keep a roof over my head, pay for food, electricity etc. To say nothing of huge medical bills as Medicare refunds bugger-all for doctors/specialists or diagnostic tests. And let’s not talk about the price of medication 😮 I can’t remember the last time I bought clothing or shoes either. I am 65 and have nothing to look forward to. This country is a bloody disaster for average Australians, but there is plenty of money for indigenous overspending and for privileged nationalities being given “refuge” without security checks.
The real disgrace is the media. We should be seeing them hold these morons to account on a daily basis. Dutton needs to continue to go hard now and show the electorate their solutions. Albanese always deflects onto others what he’s doing himself!
Labor has shown its commitment to the truth..$275 saving on your power bill..its been costed..my bill has risen 40%..along with fuel, food etc...and they were critical of the previous government's approach to controlling costs..and the stance on nuclear means it's not about emissions.
People in rural areas are copping it with fuel costs public transport isnt a thing and everything is a long drive. We are a small family with 2 cars my wife and i both work in different towns. weekly we spend around 400 dollars in fuel and thats if there are no unnecessary trips and just for road cars kick in fuel for the mower , water pump , chainsaw and other equipment plus a bit of fuel for the farm ute it can jump up 100 bucks real quick (thats not even 50l)
It's a band-aid solution only Murray. Assuming we didn't have a tax on it, what do you say then if the stuff goes up another 50 cents a litre? On a side note, you can blame the government at the time who relinquished our ability to refine the stuff to begin with..
I believe the stopping of our refineries was very much to do with the tax on fuel. It made us need import which raised the price of fuel and as such the amount of tax they could put on top. Some suspicions of other items now needing importing having associations with the GST
@@arroeducarlion4990 Spot on, this is the case for all our production including our mines. We used to mine copper, coal, iron, uranium and silicon, all of these are incredibly important minerals we could use to make ourselves industrial super powers compared to China and America. We used to make our own cars here, our own computer hardware, our own clothing, our own food, but so much of it all is now sold off to the USA or China and we get taxed to kingdom come for it. Why is it that we supply like 60% of the worlds fissile material (uranium) for reactors/weapons of mass destruction yet we ourselves don't even have a nuclear reactor and still use dirty coal and unreliable wind/solar? Why does the Australia Defense Force only have enough munitions to tentatively survive a week of open invasion conflict with an enemy like China or North Korea, yet we can manafacture bullets here ourselves? It is so the rich get richer and the poor poorer...
We mine some of the most precious minerals to modern humanity and we're a third world country, it's disgusting. We could at least be an industrial superpower that goes toe to toe with China but our leaders have no backbone and would rather have our factory workers in poverty/dead than working, besides politicians can only grift and get rich in the current politicial climate.
For Many Australians unfortunately the cost of living crisis has become like the COVID lockdowns. Albo is an incompetent pm along with Chalmers who really need to go. I'm afraid that any pm who's a wef sympathiser should not be elected either. Until Australians stop voting for the top 2 parties and the greens, it's only going to get worse.
Yes true - i dont drive anywhere on weekends i just stay local. I dont go out to movies or shops or lunch with anyone as fuel is too expensive which has caused everything to be expensive. I havent driven to the beach for years.
I’m a swinging voter, I’ll go with the most competent side. However, let’s not forget that the Labor government inherited enormous debt & a huge mess from the prior government. Added to that, global war & ongoing pandemic issues. That said, I agree that the situation in this country is terrible & needs repair. Though, careful what you wish for in the opposition leader.
5 years ago I was paying $75 for petrol a week to go to work. Now I'm paying $150 a week for petrol to get to work and that dose not cover othe car related costs. I work in aged care and this is destroying any chance of having a life outside of work .
I'll keep saying it, we live in the "Age of corporate greed". Every single company recently raised prices.. yet to see one lower them even with profits always going up before the pay hikes.
Charging consumers more, paying workers less the C-Suites always seem to be getting a good payout though. Also public traded companies being destroyed by their idiot investors is happening too much. We had a ton of people invest into the video games industry when they realised it makes more money than the movie industry and now they've sunk several big brands into the bin with their pressure to always be earning more and more while spending less. Geriatric boomers in parliament or work who own multiple private properties that they lease out AND receiving an age pension is another factor for why we are so poor. The younger generations need houses, the older generations are holding all the houses hostage and are in parliament so they decide when the houses get built (never or it lowers the value of their property investment) One day the youth will simply ignore the law and do as they please, because whats the point of a law if the ones setting it dont even try to look like they follow it anymore.
100 percent spot on greed. Ipswich motorway this morning 2.30 already for e10 but get further out pretty much in the middle of nowhere little town with a population of a couple of hundred 1.84
The cost of living is pushing people like myself right to the edge. My mental health has never been in such a bad state and majorly due to the cost of living or should I say the cost of survival.
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
Most of us already pay 32.5% income tax. Then we have GST for goods tax. And they continue to bring in new extra taxes or increase existing good taxes. Like fuel tax. Which has doubled. The politicians don't care because they get pension and very high wages that ensure those costs do not impact them.
Desmond here from Auckland new Zealand I totally agree with you Paul Murray I will be visiting your great country for 2weeks going on tour adelaide to Darwin first time ever I have be to the northern territory I am really excited I have been saving hard my holiday begins august 2024 it has been 7 years since I left new Zealand due to civid
So 25c/lt drops $15 on a 60 litre tank, is that really going to make enough of a difference? We are getting hit from all sides, inflation, food costs and the mortgage rates/ridiculous rentals are the real problem.
Last year I had 300 clear per week after all bills and groceries etc. This year I am struggling to find anything left over and have begun going into savings. BTW we have cut back on luxury foods and takeaway.
the only way to fix the governemnt is to stop allowing them o use tax payer money for fuel and food and non government related travel (if its governemnt related but their family or pets are coming a well then thy pay out of pocket as its a family vacation forst and government work second. And get rid of the tax payer funded pension and force them to live of super and the pension like everyone.
As luck would have it, I live in Japan, and was in Japan during the pandemic. Unlike the rest of the West (I include Japan as a member of the "West" because of its American-written constitution), Japan is not suffering from a cost of living crisis. Pretty much no one knows what was going on in Japan during the pandemic, which is not surprising because the Western media preferred not to mention it. If they had, they would have had to report that Japan's government didn't mandate lockdowns or business closures. They would have had to report that Japan never mandated vaccines or masks, they would have had to report that Japan never infringed upon people's rights to visit friends and family, or upon the people's right to travel, or that Japanese were able to eat indoors at restaurants, and see movies in theaters. They might have reported on Japan's policies had Japan suffered from large numbers of infections and fatalities. But those didn't happen, indeed, excess deaths actually fell in Japan in 2020 compare to the previous 2 years. Because people were allowed to keep their businesses open, to go out and shop, eat in restaurants, and travel domestically, the economic damage from the pandemic was limited. The damage was even more limited because Japan didn't go on a huge money printing, borrowing, and handout spree. Japan, the world's third-largest economy at the time, spent less than 1% what America did on pandemic relief. I can't say that Japan made this decision consciously, but because Japan's current account deficits simply didn't allow it. But the lack of massive, debt-fueled spending resulted in much less inflation than in other developed countries. What inflation Japan has seen is not the result of Japanese economic policy, but American policy. Adding 40% to the dollar supply caused inflation in dollar-priced commodities like oil, iron, wheat, and other goods, and increased the dollar cost of the import of these items. To put it all in perspective, I'll use fast food as an example. McDonald's and Taco Bell have restaurants in Japan and in America. But, as of now, menu prices at these restaurants in America is more than double the menu prices in Japan. When I arrived in Japan some 20 years ago, the Japanese restaurants charged about 40% more than American restaurants. But over that years, inflation in Japan has remained low, while inflation in America, Europe, Canada, and Australia have been flying high. I never thought that Tokyo, once the most expensive city in the world, would have a lower cost of living than the city of Dallas. But that is the case, and the cause is government policy, or, in the case of Japan, the lack thereof.
Paul the increase in fuel costs has led to higher food costs, 10% gst on top of everything, done more than 4 times from farm to market adding $ to everything. Add that to 'shrinkflation' where breakfast cereals are now 20% less than they were 'BC' and $1 dearer - why??? Increased cost for transport.
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
Tobacco consumers,ask the tobacco consumers about their cost of living crisis and how much petrol etc etc etc they could buy if tobacco was fair priced and taxed fairly,or is tobacco banned from the discussion Paul cause 3 million Australian adults who value and enjoy consuming tobacco want to know
@@nellymoo635 effects if tobacco were becoming too much on the failing health system, still is really... vapes will be the next culprit within the decade
I can’t believe it’s around 70 baht for a packet of cigs here in Thailand from a country general store today. That’s $3. I dont smoke thankfully but feel very sorry for those that do in Oz….
Almost everyone uses fuel at some point but smokers are a minority,although why anyone would want to end having a long & painful cancerous death is beyond me. I watched my father kill himself with self-administered nicotine & took 18 months to die at age 60. So,keep smoking,you won't pay the taxes much longer........leave the other 22 million or so of us to fight the Labor incompetants over more relevant matters,like food,housing,power,fuel.........
@@edwardness7497 affects of tobacco mysteriously is what everyone suffers from smokers nonsmokers and even children,I am not claiming tobacco protects you from all disease and problems faced by all people,today's data doesn't back the overexagerated claims and hate towards tobacco
I only get paid $32 an hour, have a mortgage and a child and can still do things. These people who can't do anything either got in way too much debt, are physically unable to work ( which isn't there fault ) or are not trying hard enough.
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
Our local mechanic charges $160 per hour. Doesn't matter that the apprentice does the work. As a pensioner if I get 3 hours work done on the car , I'm done for the week. That's before fuel and groceries. Then we had our power out for 3 days, lost all our food and guess what...no compensation because our power wasn't out for a week. I could go on but what's the point.
@ross4970 You do realise that mechanic isn't pocketing that $160 per hour, right?! He's not laughing all the way to the bank! To train an apprentice costs a business a lot. Wages, work cover, super, uniform - the list is endless. Plus the same expenses for the other staff member to supervise the apprentice, because they can't work unsupervised until qualified. An apprentice is a financial burden for 4 years until they qualify. Mechanics are one of the lowest paid and least valued trade. Plus there's a huge skills shortage. But you all bleat on about your car being off road and how much of a necessity it is to have it, yet no one values the work it takes to keep it on the road in the first place. You can probably find another mechanic elsewhere a lot cheaper. He'll do it cheap and off the books in his back yard. He'll pay no tax. But if something goes wrong with your car after, good luck getting him to fix it. He'll have no recollection of ever meeting you and will wipe his hands clean of you. Then you're really stuck. That $160 per hour mechanic you complained about? He's got insurance to cover any losses (and yep that doesn't come cheap either). He's got warranty he can claim on from his parts suppliers, if a part fails. People need to stop seeing the $ per hour figure as the burden and ask themselves how much more of a burden it would be to have a car off the road because a dodgy back yard mechanic did a cashie for you and stuffed it up. A car is still a luxury, not a right. Many simply cannot afford at all and so don't have one. The $160 per hour chap that's creating jobs and training the mechanics of tomorrow isn't ripping you off. You're just complaining because you, like so many others, don't see the value in mechanics until you're at the side of the road broken down waiting for a tow truck contemplating your life choices.
I currently am lucky to pay a flat rate of rent to my friend's parents who are my landlords now. In return for that kindness I give them my computer specialist expertise wherever they might need it for free (I also help them upkeep the property as its too large for them now that they're getting older) This living gives me a sense of genuine fulfillment that working in a corporate slave job did the reverse of. I hate that I can't live like this forever (on the dole), I just eat a meal a day, do yard work when it needs doing and use my actual skills and love of computers to help an older couple live a little easier of a life. But the politicians and CEOs want you to work for them until you die. I finally landed a job interview after 10 years of job hunting as a SWM who was sacked from his last job to cut costs on a dying company. This is my last hurrah in society I think... I'm only 33 years old but being around other human beings has actually become unbearable for me, I hate all of the general public of Australia from a deep part of my soul for all of you allowing this to happen over the course of 20-30 years and i'm supposed to just pick up the pieces in this shit heap for some reason. If I dont get this job I think I'm heading back to my grandmother's and I'll just become her full time carer until she dies, then I'll probably go outback with a shotgun and finish myself off.
It is a tax society: We pay tax on everything, to buy your food; they tax your wage, tax the farmer, tax the middle man (delivery), tax the supermarket and then charge you GST on your purchase. There is nothing we can do with our money that does not go back to the tax man. Think about it, you earn $20, you pay tax, you buy something with that $20, you pay GST, and that is not the only tax they get for your simple $20 purchase, the manufacturer pays tax, the delivery person pays tax, you will find that about 95% of that $20 is all TAX! It is time for a @civilrevolt
Im so tired of hearing "petrol prices" Yes! Petrol Prices effect people at the pump but if you want to tackle the cost of living crises then DIESEL prices are the issue. Your bread & milk, Clothes and yes! even Petrol require DIESEL to get to you. THIS IS THE ISSUE NOT PETROL.
Albo's doing a good job of clearing the country of Australian's, farming, manufacturing. Energies not an issue it's free from the wind, sun, flowers etc.
Paul Murray thank you .the reason the prime minister won't cut petrol prices he is punishing the Australian people for not voting yes in the referendum he can't single out out the yes voters , another reason is he won't is he won't have enough money to build housing for indigenous people in remote areas NO I am not a racist all Austalians deserve housing thank you sky news
I was watching on 9 news , and some government guy said 75% of wages is going towards mortgages or rent . Probably 2 weeks later, someone else in the government said 25% of citizens' wages are going to food expenses. Look, I'm no Einstein, but 75%+25% = 100% . Exactly where is all the rest of the money coming from then ? I would sure like to know . Wait, I think the majority of Australian citizens do , maybe its because they are not politicians 🤔 Look, I just want to win the lotto, and I will just shut the fk up !!!
What department do I need to call for a PO number?…..I’m organizing a flight to Sydney so I can hang out at campsie train station but haven’t been able to contact someone who can do that….any tips?
I just don’t understand why are Banks and electricity companies off the hook? Woolworths made a billion dollar profit last year, and all the hell broke loose, so did electricity companies,banks make that in few months and nothing by leeches in parliament, this is just a smoke scree
The reason why the ALP won't reduce the fuel excise is because they want the price of fuel to remain high. People will then look to EV's as a cheaper fuel option for the ALP to continue with their green dream.
In psychology it is said that we project our own behaviour and blame others for our own failings. This is what Anthony Albanese does to Peter Dutton and the Liberals. Labour politicians are extremely childish.
It’s because no matter what Albo and his clowns do or say they get away with it! Blow off tax payers money like it’s nothing with absolutely no accountability, and continue to help them selves to the conveniences, luxuries and money that there privilege positions afforded them without any empathy for the people they are supposed to help and protect! The FACT is they don’t CARE’ they’ve got it to good! They take what they want when they want! WHOS GOING TO STOP THEM? Mean while in the real world the everyday Aussie is doing it TUFF!
Time for all Labor MPs to experience the mother of all reality checks.
Gallows...
Nope,”rule .303”
6 months on the 'average' wage, renting, without any parliamentary privileges, perks etc.
Yeah, well Libs need to show some backbone before we hopefully get that result. And find some decent policies to lower the cost of living that Albo and Co. allowed to grow rampant.
@@Luum81only 6 months 🤔
That statement just shows what a clown the PM is.
GET RID OF ALBO!!! HE CLEARLY HATES AUSTRALIA!!!!!
Its the petrol and cost of living on top of Coles and Woolies wacking prices up so high you look for the out of date items to survive.
Cost of living is out of control.
On the Gold Coast, tent city in the parks to top it off.
Albo it's a shame as your Labour Party spends more and inflation outstrips income for the average Australian right now in 2024.
Absolute Disgrace to the working poor.
And of course none of what you describe ever happened under SloMo. It was all heaven on a stick! Take you hand off it, thanks. 🤭🤗
My deaf grandmother who is physically frail barely gets an age pension in her retirement and she gets less money than a job seeker.
My great aunt, her sister, who has assets valued in the 10s of millions and has four active passive incomes from owned properties her husband leases out, she still receives a pension on top of that.
Why are we enabling the greedy rich to become richer and the poor to become poorer? Thanks Australian people, this is all your fault.
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
This would be Albo's answer to people who can't afford to buy fuel, "buy an EV".
Albo and Labor in general are so ignorant and stupid I almost expect it.
Very 'let them eat cake.'
Yes we should all buy EVs because electricity is so cheap, I bet he doesn’t know the price of electricity because we pay that for him
The EV would cost more to travel 800km and take twice as long. That’s if you make it at all. 😎👍👊🇦🇺
Doesn't it cost on an average $30 to recharge your battery? Nothing to do with an EV is free or cheaper!!
Those people are the ones who can not afford to buy a car. What a joke expecting people to buy a new EV car when they can barely afford to pay the bills or save money for a rainy day
Im not paying tax anymore. Ive gone ABN and they can shove it. Take me to court and i will pay 10 bucks aweek for ever
I'm starting to feel like that.
Shannon
Good. Don't give the govt any legitimacy. Org crim synd
Right on 100%
Step one: Start an only fans account
Step two: Sell pictures of your feet to Japanese businessmen
Step thee: Tax-free income 🦶😎
Yep
That is why the ABC should be defunded
Because you use a fake name?
I'm afraid that it's only News Corp that's being defunded by it's formerly paying customers. Subscribers are just disappearing like magic down the tubes. Then there's that 2 billion defamation settlement with Smartmatic in the US coming up. News Corp is being so handsomely well defunded presently that they and those in their troll farms must be wondering where to next? 😮😢
@@EL_Duderino68 What does his fake name have to do with the defunding of the ABC. I imagine if he used his real name, his attitude would not be any different. The ABC announcer knows that if he asked the hard questions that Paul in many vids, he'd probably get the sack for daring to get the truth out of Albo. Albo feels safe because he won't have to face the hard questions on that government station.
Us Kiwis are way ahead of you, we stopped watching our woke media, now they're going broke and are stopping TV3 news and TV1 news is facing big cuts. No one has sympathy for them, they bought it on themselves.
@@EL_Duderino68you are a tosspot mate! 😎👊👍🇦🇺
It’s more than 49c as you have to add GST which is charged after the tax is added
Correct. At the current price of about $2/L that means it's more like 70 cents/L. Absolutely nuts
We are surrounded by 360 degrees of utter BS. Beyond tragic what’s going on.
It's becoming every man for himself these days
I know but that's mindless News Corp ever and always. 🤭🤗
The cannabis truth cover up being lived and enjoyed in Canada most of America and to a small point Canberra etc etc etc is the main reason for all hysteria distraction crisis for the last 10 years the truth has been pouring out all over the world panicking all the groups who profit from evil sickness suffering misery and death,it's obvious our current leadership isn't interested in living proof and truth regarding cannabis and I would guess all are heavily invested and influenced by big pHarma and that is why they are silent pretending to not understand or be unaware,we have laws regulation and understanding regarding cannabis which is clearly wrong and the leaders of our country don't seem to care? The media also seems not interested in apologising for a hundred years of needless disgusting and hurtful cannabis prohibition and misinformation
100%
Other than Keating I've never seen the cost of living so bad
Absolute disgrace. Albo needs to go!
You do realise he is an actor and has been placed there by his masters...
He was never here
But is was Sco Mo who stuffed the economy with his insults against China and his big spend up
It’s pretty disgusting when you consider we don’t live in a third world country but many are doing it so tough that it feels like we do. Bob Hawke promised no child would live in poverty so time ago but unfortunately Albo and his circus government seem hell bent on making sure many children do live in poverty and none of these clowns seem to even care!
Labor will continue to spiral our country into an abyss of poverty unless Australians wake up and start putting them and the Greens last on the ballot paper. 😎👊👍🇦🇺
We are being controlled by the US which is a bankrupt third world country.
Hawke even though he was a piss head was the last real PM we had a real Australian .
Bob Hawke, God bless him, had personality and charisma, this current lots of Dullards have neither.
Ahhh....Bob and his often repeated lie. I'm guessing all the P.M.'s (both sides) have them, the latest is ALBO's $275-............Rudd, Keating, Abbott, Gillard, Fraser, etc..... = All painted with the same brush.
Paul.
It's hell out here I haven't been out in 3 years
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If you call out going shopping is going out your right...
But if you say clubbing movies or even out to a party it's been 3 years
The positive way to look at things is with Labor in power we will hit rock bottom faster!! My glass half full perspective
@@gregoryray9920 LNP or ALP, doesn' matter who, both are parties made to enrich the party members and not the country they lead.
Same as it is in the UK, same as the US and same as CAD.
We're done for.
Well said Paul... Thank you.
If you want to hand out millions to third world countries at the expense of taxpayers.
To say nothing of ever-increasing indigenous aid - like the latest $1.4m per house being allocated
And in handing out this money we will become a third word country!!
2 billion in funding for green energy in south East Asia. Announced yesterday
@@daisy8297 Also the rich boomers who do not need a pension because they have assets and other forms of passive income, are still getting a pension.
The aged care system costs us 70% of the entire welfare budget guys, it's literally killing our country. But we can't help the modern youth? We gotta fill the pockets of the older generations? Why? What did the boomers ever do for me in Australia? They took away my gun rights as I was born, I cannot walk down the street without requiring my ID on me for fear of a police officer demanding my ID or arresting me for not identifying.
I hate this place but they make it impossible to leave.
Why can we not immigrat to the UK, Canada or other commonwealth nations?
Why are we a joke disguised as a first world country?
Why are the working class so dumb? You've let this happen, we fringe 'extremists' told you all for years and years it was happening and you all instead scoffed at us and said it was fine as it was.
Is it fine now assholes?
Mr Albanese throws a tantrum if anyone asks a question that doesn’t please him. Treats people with utter disrespect.
Great video Paul Murray.
Albo says just buy an EV . Then you don't have to worry about the price petrol . You just have to worry about the finance for the EV .
And what happens when the power grid goes down🤔
cyclone knocks out electricity for days Oh, can't dive either.
@@katel7309 I know, get a generator that runs on petrol so you can charge your EV.🤣
EV vehicles will drive up the price of electricity !
Electricity is so cheap so I guess we can all afford our power bills hey Albo!
@@goodo4668 not to mention the extra weight of these vehicles contributes to roads breaking up faster and thus more pollution created just in road maintenance, there’s so much more to EVs that people don’t wish to acknowledge and all they want to push is how they don’t emit pollution when being driven which is the only time they are actually better than ICE vehicles for the environment
Im feeling the pressure of the cost of Living and I’m not on welfare. I wanted to visit my 100 year grandmother but had to rethink due to cost.
Net Zero, left to live on.
It's not just petrol. it's everything.
Vote 🗳 LABOR OUT forever and never forget these times under LABOR😢.
When’s oxygen going to be taxed
SSH don't give them ideas 🤫
Its already being taxed the carbon tax is to save the oxygen
Carbon tax
Don't forget about the sun taxes 😅
Fart tax first lol
Politicians are the only bums of Australia 🙆🏻♀️
Labor out
Well how else is he going to spend $4 billion on homes in the middle of nowhere
Whoop whoop is not the middle of nowhere.
I suppose you have something against the Never Never too?
I’m just glad I get to go to buggery.
@@martindavis2295 Where are they going?? Please tell us all. Have you ever been to remote communities in northern Australia? Being someone who grew up in the outback I know there are no jobs. I was forced to move to the city because when 15 people graduate from school the 4 businesses can not hire all the students. Apart from the few companies you got a choice on farm hand or dole bludger
The government genuinely DOES NOT CARE. The sooner people realise this, group together and force change nothing will happen.
Don't bother saving for your retirement, Labor will confiscate it if you have to go into a nursing home.
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
Cheaper Electrishitty.
Bowen is responsible
Bowen is nothing more than a useful idiot. Never had a portfolio that I remember him having any idea about
Take all the perks away from the politicians and soon you will see how quickly things will improve for us all….
We need a new system of elections, no preferences
Agreed all big decisions like foregn aid, budget etc should include the publics vote,i feel everything is far too hidden and too much is getting passed without us knowing
So a party with 21% of the vote should form government? But what if they only win 29% of all seats? It means they have to form an alliance with one or more parties. Pretty unstable.
And the people who bitch about preferences putting party A over the line would be bitching about minor parties C and D forming an alliance with party B to create a government.....
@@adam7868 How many votes a year do you want? Hold a budget over until the next lot of foreign aid is requested?
How exactly do people vote on a budget? What's the question put to voters? As referenda are only about the constitution, how will a vote on the budget be binding?
@@nevillewran4083 its easy, in the case of foreign aid you vote if money should be spent on a particular country, and for budget you give a list of priorities and you order them like you order political candidates ie you allocate more money to farmers then to people drugged out of their brains on centrelink
As for your other question please note there are important topics.anything small the government should be trusted to handle him/herself ide say probably 2 a year one for budget and one for foreign aid
I can't even fill my tank, and I can't visit anyone. This country is ridiculous. My mortgage has gone up $300 a fortnight, and they think that money can just come out of no where
Just get a job bro! It's easy once you have a job you know? That's what all the elderly boomers keep telling me that if I just get a job and work extra hard, I too can own a home, a car and find a wife and family with the magic of Boomer retardation.
$2.45 per litre in Brisbane today.
I own & drive a 1998 Mitsubishi I've had for 4 yrs.I bought it for $300. Go buy an EV ! What with ! The age pension is my only income.My budget rarely works.I need a car due to where I'm forced to live in a caravan with an annexe.God help me if the car breaks. A new car of ANY type is impossible so Bowen & Albo are deluded fools.
Yes, I agree, him and Bowen, both a pair of idiots with delusions of grandeur. Yessh, chweepa ewetwicity. And smarmy smirk face who can't pronounce nuclear ( nicleer )
You can't have LNP heaven on earth under SloMo forever you know. But no matter, I reckon you can still afford Sky News and enjoy a good nightly rev up sitting in front of the After Dark rantings and ravings in favour of the LNP. It's not heaven like it was under SloMo but you get to grizzle and gripe a lot more. That's pretty good! 🤭😋
@@TyronepeaderI happened to see this video on a friends phone You Tube so don't you dare to point the finger unless you know me which,fortunately for me ,you don't. The week I buy petrol I eat baked beans 3 days of that week. Thank you for your concern.
@@PhilipShand Happy ranting and grizzling. Remember to keep blaming Labor just like Sky News tells you to. If you have some intelligence, you might try to do some thinking for yourself. 🤔
@@Tyronepeader Reality is not a rant.Not having enough for food,shelter & power is not a rant & constantly being lied to by the government is not a rant.Having to see a group of know-it-all incompetants preach at,not to,the entire population as if they were ill-educated children is not a rant. The relevant ministers know nothing of their portfolios for which they get paid absurd amounts of YOUR tax money,lucrative benefits for life,don't know the price of petrol because they now get chauffer-driven in a fleet of electric BMW cars,charge you for living 10k out of Canberra....... Christ,man,wake up to yourself.....your anus must be huge because you're being screwed sideways & don't even feel it.If you were in the US you'd probably be wearing a red cap backwards.
I thought it was bad in Canada. 1.45/L about 1/2 is taxes
This info is so true. E.g. at the pub a glass of wine is $12...ergo...it is cheaper to drink at home.
Restaurants are out of reach.
Petrol prices determine where you drive or how often.
Gas and electricity are up over 40%.
A 9 pack of toilet rolls in Coles was $9.50 ...now they are $13.50 for the sane item.
Dry cat food was $5 per pack now same thing is $7.
Keep pointing these things out bec Labor thinks th a t by talking about doing something about cost of living means they actually are. The worst govt in history.
In my opinion it doesn't matter who is in charge. Nothing ever changes things only get worse. They get rich we stay poor.
Next week my rent goes up 65 dollars. That 20 bucks sure will help lol
If you’re earning an income that grants you a $20 per week tax cut in July, it would have been $0 under the previous stage 3 structure. If you don’t want the $20, I’ll happily take it lol
@@6braceface while tax on fuel puts the price of everything up. Not even going to go into Labor's energy policies and how much it raises not only home costs but any and every product or service. That $20 is taken back 500 times over
@@6bracefaceyeah they are counting on people thinking like you do. Happy to take a measly $20 when they are having parties with $500 tins of caviar.
@@arroeducarlion4990 Yes, fuel and the associated tax is an input cost for many goods or services. But Australia is a net importer of petrol and diesel, global prices have surged in the last few years and no government can solve that. We’re a heavily integrated economy and increased energy prices are part of the risk we incur. Would you support nationalisation of our resources to avoid this?
@@lonnie224 Politicians are going to eat caviar regardless of whether you and I get a tax break or not. For me, it’s an extra $44 a week compared to the old stage 3 which was about half of that. Hard to complain about this change in isolation.
Wow. He nailed it.
Get Albo and his labor party out asap!
why dutton ... force albanese to drop fuel taxes...and fix cost of living ... WHERE IS THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN ALL THIS
GG will do diddly squat, he's Albo's mate.
He’s as woke as the PM.
Our local servo has petrol for 1.90 while others hav 2.28.
Lack of competition is an issue. Also the servo with 1.90 petrol keeps the same price till the tank runs out, while others fluctuate despite still using same fuel they got restocked a week ago at cheaper price
Yes we are paying tax on the top of the tax ! Where are the money going? It used to support our roads! We have roads like Swiss cheese ,the new roads are built by private companies and if you want to use them you have to pay more ,what country are we leaving in?
It goes to pay for all the waste. Albo's voice. Flying all over the world. Swifty concert. The tennis. Solar panels and wind farms.
@@ozzesty7314 you also forgot that it fill all politicians pockets as graft.
Labor dose not care same with Greens
Albo needs the petrol tax to feed his super account.. How much tax is too much tax? The amount we're paying NOW!
Keep doing what you’re doing Paul! Fighting the good fight!!! It’s a dog eat dog world out there at the moment. Labours gotta go!!
What did you expect paul did you think those short costs in those labour tax cuts were free of course you'll pay them back in other ways and fuel is one of them.
I don’t smoke, drink, go out and can barely afford to put petrol in my car because I struggle to keep a roof over my head, pay for food, electricity etc. To say nothing of huge medical bills as Medicare refunds bugger-all for doctors/specialists or diagnostic tests. And let’s not talk about the price of medication 😮 I can’t remember the last time I bought clothing or shoes either. I am 65 and have nothing to look forward to. This country is a bloody disaster for average Australians, but there is plenty of money for indigenous overspending and for privileged nationalities being given “refuge” without security checks.
Well said.
It’s cheaper to have no insurance
Unfortunately, I can sympathise. I'm in the same position. It's amazing how long you can stretch a bag of spuds.
But you can still afford a subscription for Sky News. Enjoy all the whining and being well revved up to vote for the LNP. 🤔🤭
@Tyronepeader 😂 there is no subscription on sky news
The real disgrace is the media. We should be seeing them hold these morons to account on a daily basis. Dutton needs to continue to go hard now and show the electorate their solutions. Albanese always deflects onto others what he’s doing himself!
Labor has shown its commitment to the truth..$275 saving on your power bill..its been costed..my bill has risen 40%..along with fuel, food etc...and they were critical of the previous government's approach to controlling costs..and the stance on nuclear means it's not about emissions.
Same here, going out socializing has become a luxury reserved for career politicians such as Antony Albanese and co. to enjoy.
They make horrendous decisions for the pubic to deal with and then walk away with a trail of debris behind them , but it’s not their fault !
People in rural areas are copping it with fuel costs public transport isnt a thing and everything is a long drive. We are a small family with 2 cars my wife and i both work in different towns. weekly we spend around 400 dollars in fuel and thats if there are no unnecessary trips and just for road cars kick in fuel for the mower , water pump , chainsaw and other equipment plus a bit of fuel for the farm ute it can jump up 100 bucks real quick (thats not even 50l)
Paul i would love to watch you give the so call PM a interview he would so poop his jeans :D
🤣😂🤣
It's a band-aid solution only Murray. Assuming we didn't have a tax on it, what do you say then if the stuff goes up another 50 cents a litre? On a side note, you can blame the government at the time who relinquished our ability to refine the stuff to begin with..
Sold it to the chinese i believe
I believe the stopping of our refineries was very much to do with the tax on fuel. It made us need import which raised the price of fuel and as such the amount of tax they could put on top. Some suspicions of other items now needing importing having associations with the GST
@@arroeducarlion4990 Spot on, this is the case for all our production including our mines.
We used to mine copper, coal, iron, uranium and silicon, all of these are incredibly important minerals we could use to make ourselves industrial super powers compared to China and America.
We used to make our own cars here, our own computer hardware, our own clothing, our own food, but so much of it all is now sold off to the USA or China and we get taxed to kingdom come for it.
Why is it that we supply like 60% of the worlds fissile material (uranium) for reactors/weapons of mass destruction yet we ourselves don't even have a nuclear reactor and still use dirty coal and unreliable wind/solar?
Why does the Australia Defense Force only have enough munitions to tentatively survive a week of open invasion conflict with an enemy like China or North Korea, yet we can manafacture bullets here ourselves?
It is so the rich get richer and the poor poorer...
You are so right
Well. People vote them back in. Look at Dunkley. Everything must be cheap there
Dumb people
So true. Every single word
With our resources we should be one of the most prosperous countries on the planet
We mine some of the most precious minerals to modern humanity and we're a third world country, it's disgusting.
We could at least be an industrial superpower that goes toe to toe with China but our leaders have no backbone and would rather have our factory workers in poverty/dead than working, besides politicians can only grift and get rich in the current politicial climate.
For Many Australians unfortunately the cost of living crisis has become like the COVID lockdowns. Albo is an incompetent pm along with Chalmers who really need to go. I'm afraid that any pm who's a wef sympathiser should not be elected either. Until Australians stop voting for the top 2 parties and the greens, it's only going to get worse.
Fuel is just a couple of dollars difference, the real problem is housing cost 📈. $100 rental increases for 3 years in a row, same house.
Yes true - i dont drive anywhere on weekends i just stay local. I dont go out to movies or shops or lunch with anyone as fuel is too expensive which has caused everything to be expensive. I havent driven to the beach for years.
I’m a swinging voter, I’ll go with the most competent side. However, let’s not forget that the Labor government inherited enormous debt & a huge mess from the prior government. Added to that, global war & ongoing pandemic issues. That said, I agree that the situation in this country is terrible & needs repair. Though, careful what you wish for in the opposition leader.
Exactly. People are too short sighted to realise that though.
5 years ago I was paying $75 for petrol a week to go to work. Now I'm paying $150 a week for petrol to get to work and that dose not cover othe car related costs. I work in aged care and this is destroying any chance of having a life outside of work .
Shits getting worse, everyone needs to start getting ready for the absolute worst
And yet another $4 billion just wasted
I'll keep saying it, we live in the "Age of corporate greed". Every single company recently raised prices.. yet to see one lower them even with profits always going up before the pay hikes.
Charging consumers more, paying workers less the C-Suites always seem to be getting a good payout though.
Also public traded companies being destroyed by their idiot investors is happening too much. We had a ton of people invest into the video games industry when they realised it makes more money than the movie industry and now they've sunk several big brands into the bin with their pressure to always be earning more and more while spending less.
Geriatric boomers in parliament or work who own multiple private properties that they lease out AND receiving an age pension is another factor for why we are so poor.
The younger generations need houses, the older generations are holding all the houses hostage and are in parliament so they decide when the houses get built (never or it lowers the value of their property investment)
One day the youth will simply ignore the law and do as they please, because whats the point of a law if the ones setting it dont even try to look like they follow it anymore.
100 percent spot on greed.
Ipswich motorway this morning 2.30 already for e10 but get further out pretty much in the middle of nowhere little town with a population of a couple of hundred 1.84
The cost of living is pushing people like myself right to the edge. My mental health has never been in such a bad state and majorly due to the cost of living or should I say the cost of survival.
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
T. Burke, S. Miles, S. Jones.................KEEP AT THEM. REMEMBER WHAT THEY'VE DONE.
I paid $2.54.5 per litre this morning , absolutely outrageous . Up goes food prices again because of fuel price increase .
Most of us already pay 32.5% income tax. Then we have GST for goods tax. And they continue to bring in new extra taxes or increase existing good taxes. Like fuel tax. Which has doubled.
The politicians don't care because they get pension and very high wages that ensure those costs do not impact them.
Desmond here from Auckland new Zealand I totally agree with you Paul Murray I will be visiting your great country for 2weeks going on tour adelaide to Darwin first time ever I have be to the northern territory I am really excited I have been saving hard my holiday begins august 2024 it has been 7 years since I left new Zealand due to civid
So 25c/lt drops $15 on a 60 litre tank, is that really going to make enough of a difference? We are getting hit from all sides, inflation, food costs and the mortgage rates/ridiculous rentals are the real problem.
They don't care...
Last year I had 300 clear per week after all bills and groceries etc. This year I am struggling to find anything left over and have begun going into savings. BTW we have cut back on luxury foods and takeaway.
the only way to fix the governemnt is to stop allowing them o use tax payer money for fuel and food and non government related travel (if its governemnt related but their family or pets are coming a well then thy pay out of pocket as its a family vacation forst and government work second. And get rid of the tax payer funded pension and force them to live of super and the pension like everyone.
What is the point of asking a question they cannot answer it anyway.
As luck would have it, I live in Japan, and was in Japan during the pandemic. Unlike the rest of the West (I include Japan as a member of the "West" because of its American-written constitution), Japan is not suffering from a cost of living crisis. Pretty much no one knows what was going on in Japan during the pandemic, which is not surprising because the Western media preferred not to mention it. If they had, they would have had to report that Japan's government didn't mandate lockdowns or business closures. They would have had to report that Japan never mandated vaccines or masks, they would have had to report that Japan never infringed upon people's rights to visit friends and family, or upon the people's right to travel, or that Japanese were able to eat indoors at restaurants, and see movies in theaters. They might have reported on Japan's policies had Japan suffered from large numbers of infections and fatalities. But those didn't happen, indeed, excess deaths actually fell in Japan in 2020 compare to the previous 2 years.
Because people were allowed to keep their businesses open, to go out and shop, eat in restaurants, and travel domestically, the economic damage from the pandemic was limited. The damage was even more limited because Japan didn't go on a huge money printing, borrowing, and handout spree. Japan, the world's third-largest economy at the time, spent less than 1% what America did on pandemic relief. I can't say that Japan made this decision consciously, but because Japan's current account deficits simply didn't allow it. But the lack of massive, debt-fueled spending resulted in much less inflation than in other developed countries. What inflation Japan has seen is not the result of Japanese economic policy, but American policy. Adding 40% to the dollar supply caused inflation in dollar-priced commodities like oil, iron, wheat, and other goods, and increased the dollar cost of the import of these items.
To put it all in perspective, I'll use fast food as an example. McDonald's and Taco Bell have restaurants in Japan and in America. But, as of now, menu prices at these restaurants in America is more than double the menu prices in Japan. When I arrived in Japan some 20 years ago, the Japanese restaurants charged about 40% more than American restaurants. But over that years, inflation in Japan has remained low, while inflation in America, Europe, Canada, and Australia have been flying high. I never thought that Tokyo, once the most expensive city in the world, would have a lower cost of living than the city of Dallas. But that is the case, and the cause is government policy, or, in the case of Japan, the lack thereof.
Paul the increase in fuel costs has led to higher food costs, 10% gst on top of everything, done more than 4 times from farm to market adding $ to everything. Add that to 'shrinkflation' where breakfast cereals are now 20% less than they were 'BC' and $1 dearer - why??? Increased cost for transport.
I am a 70 year old pensioner who can't afford petrol I walk every where
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
Lucy, waking up yet ? or still blindly licking the bowl 🤡🤡
Is it not just heinously obvious to Australian citizens that Labor has just stayed in power way too long?
Tobacco consumers,ask the tobacco consumers about their cost of living crisis and how much petrol etc etc etc they could buy if tobacco was fair priced and taxed fairly,or is tobacco banned from the discussion Paul cause 3 million Australian adults who value and enjoy consuming tobacco want to know
The government needs to butt out of our lives and stop dictating.
@@nellymoo635 effects if tobacco were becoming too much on the failing health system, still is really... vapes will be the next culprit within the decade
I can’t believe it’s around 70 baht for a packet of cigs here in Thailand from a country general store today. That’s $3. I dont smoke thankfully but feel very sorry for those that do in Oz….
Almost everyone uses fuel at some point but smokers are a minority,although why anyone would want to end having a long & painful cancerous death is beyond me. I watched my father kill himself with self-administered nicotine & took 18 months to die at age 60. So,keep smoking,you won't pay the taxes much longer........leave the other 22 million or so of us to fight the Labor incompetants over more relevant matters,like food,housing,power,fuel.........
@@edwardness7497 affects of tobacco mysteriously is what everyone suffers from smokers nonsmokers and even children,I am not claiming tobacco protects you from all disease and problems faced by all people,today's data doesn't back the overexagerated claims and hate towards tobacco
I only get paid $32 an hour, have a mortgage and a child and can still do things.
These people who can't do anything either got in way too much debt, are physically unable to work ( which isn't there fault ) or are not trying hard enough.
ALBO THE ABBO HAS TO GO!
Why not take a bus, Surely there's public transport to where she's going, A train even.
Try being a pensioner.
l spend half a day at the shopping centre so that l don't use my own electricity at home. I sit in the food court watching movies on my phone, that's my retirement years for you. My local shopping centre is my 2nd home, my Multi-million dollar mansion.
Our local mechanic charges $160 per hour. Doesn't matter that the apprentice does the work. As a pensioner if I get 3 hours work done on the car , I'm done for the week. That's before fuel and groceries. Then we had our power out for 3 days, lost all our food and guess what...no compensation because our power wasn't out for a week. I could go on but what's the point.
@ross4970 You do realise that mechanic isn't pocketing that $160 per hour, right?! He's not laughing all the way to the bank!
To train an apprentice costs a business a lot. Wages, work cover, super, uniform - the list is endless. Plus the same expenses for the other staff member to supervise the apprentice, because they can't work unsupervised until qualified. An apprentice is a financial burden for 4 years until they qualify.
Mechanics are one of the lowest paid and least valued trade. Plus there's a huge skills shortage.
But you all bleat on about your car being off road and how much of a necessity it is to have it, yet no one values the work it takes to keep it on the road in the first place.
You can probably find another mechanic elsewhere a lot cheaper. He'll do it cheap and off the books in his back yard. He'll pay no tax. But if something goes wrong with your car after, good luck getting him to fix it. He'll have no recollection of ever meeting you and will wipe his hands clean of you. Then you're really stuck.
That $160 per hour mechanic you complained about? He's got insurance to cover any losses (and yep that doesn't come cheap either). He's got warranty he can claim on from his parts suppliers, if a part fails.
People need to stop seeing the $ per hour figure as the burden and ask themselves how much more of a burden it would be to have a car off the road because a dodgy back yard mechanic did a cashie for you and stuffed it up.
A car is still a luxury, not a right. Many simply cannot afford at all and so don't have one.
The $160 per hour chap that's creating jobs and training the mechanics of tomorrow isn't ripping you off. You're just complaining because you, like so many others, don't see the value in mechanics until you're at the side of the road broken down waiting for a tow truck contemplating your life choices.
So you think the government needs to regulate how much a business can charge someone for a service? Good luck with that.
I currently am lucky to pay a flat rate of rent to my friend's parents who are my landlords now.
In return for that kindness I give them my computer specialist expertise wherever they might need it for free (I also help them upkeep the property as its too large for them now that they're getting older)
This living gives me a sense of genuine fulfillment that working in a corporate slave job did the reverse of.
I hate that I can't live like this forever (on the dole), I just eat a meal a day, do yard work when it needs doing and use my actual skills and love of computers to help an older couple live a little easier of a life.
But the politicians and CEOs want you to work for them until you die.
I finally landed a job interview after 10 years of job hunting as a SWM who was sacked from his last job to cut costs on a dying company.
This is my last hurrah in society I think... I'm only 33 years old but being around other human beings has actually become unbearable for me, I hate all of the general public of Australia from a deep part of my soul for all of you allowing this to happen over the course of 20-30 years and i'm supposed to just pick up the pieces in this shit heap for some reason.
If I dont get this job I think I'm heading back to my grandmother's and I'll just become her full time carer until she dies, then I'll probably go outback with a shotgun and finish myself off.
It is a tax society:
We pay tax on everything, to buy your food; they tax your wage, tax the farmer, tax the middle man (delivery), tax the supermarket and then charge you GST on your purchase. There is nothing we can do with our money that does not go back to the tax man.
Think about it, you earn $20, you pay tax, you buy something with that $20, you pay GST, and that is not the only tax they get for your simple $20 purchase, the manufacturer pays tax, the delivery person pays tax, you will find that about 95% of that $20 is all TAX!
It is time for a @civilrevolt
Then in Vic we have state Labour taxes us again😢
Im so tired of hearing "petrol prices" Yes! Petrol Prices effect people at the pump but if you want to tackle the cost of living crises then DIESEL prices are the issue. Your bread & milk, Clothes and yes! even Petrol require DIESEL to get to you. THIS IS THE ISSUE NOT PETROL.
Albo's doing a good job of clearing the country of Australian's, farming, manufacturing. Energies not an issue it's free from the wind, sun, flowers etc.
Paul Murray thank you .the reason the prime minister won't cut petrol prices he is punishing the Australian people for not voting yes in the referendum he can't single out out the yes voters , another reason is he won't is he won't have enough money to build housing for indigenous people in remote areas NO I am not a racist all Austalians deserve housing thank you sky news
I was watching on 9 news , and some government guy said 75% of wages is going towards mortgages or rent .
Probably 2 weeks later, someone else in the government said 25% of citizens' wages are going to food expenses.
Look, I'm no Einstein, but 75%+25% = 100% .
Exactly where is all the rest of the money coming from then ?
I would sure like to know .
Wait, I think the majority of Australian citizens do , maybe its because they are not politicians 🤔
Look, I just want to win the lotto, and I will just shut the fk up !!!
What department do I need to call for a PO number?…..I’m organizing a flight to Sydney so I can hang out at campsie train station but haven’t been able to contact someone who can do that….any tips?
I just don’t understand why are Banks and electricity companies off the hook? Woolworths made a billion dollar profit last year, and all the hell broke loose, so did electricity companies,banks make that in few months and nothing by leeches in parliament, this is just a smoke scree
The reason why the ALP won't reduce the fuel excise is because they want the price of fuel to remain high. People will then look to EV's as a cheaper fuel option for the ALP to continue with their green dream.
Get rid of the ABC . Oh and Albo. Sack the lot.
Australia, get use to more pain, you ain't seen nothing yet.
In psychology it is said that we project our own behaviour and blame others for our own failings. This is what Anthony Albanese does to Peter Dutton and the Liberals. Labour politicians are extremely childish.
It’s because no matter what Albo and his clowns do or say they get away with it! Blow off tax payers money like it’s nothing with absolutely no accountability, and continue to help them selves to the conveniences, luxuries and money that there privilege positions afforded them without any empathy for the people they are supposed to help and protect! The FACT is they don’t CARE’ they’ve got it to good! They take what they want when they want! WHOS GOING TO STOP THEM? Mean while in the real world the everyday Aussie is doing it TUFF!