Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
So which doubling of the debt were you talking about here?
And you’re ok with Labor making it even harder for you to ever afford a house, afford basic things like food and clothing, and not being able to pay your power bill?
Abbot started in 2013 and the debt doubled before COVID started. It’s almost doubled again now but it went down for a year which is something the liberal party can’t do, apparently.
They aren’t making it harder, my pay has gone up over $1/h because of my award and being casual, I have more money than ever and am pretty confident that I’ll be able to buy a house where I live without a big deal in a couple decades. My electricity hasn’t changed a whole lot, it’s still under 300 a quarter for the household and less during autumn/spring, the only thing that made it that high at all was getting AC installed.
Sorry but Labor is consistently a decent party.
And your costs have gone up significantly more than $1/h.
WITHIN A COUPLE OF DECADES and you’re saying that like it’s a great thing!?
That doesn’t match what the actual electricity prices and all reports say, so your situation is likely an edge case of shared bills and/or a battery system already exists.
You sound like you’re young, right? Late teens/early twenties?
My primary cost increase was I spent too much money on a car and it’s not good on fuel and takes premium. That’s more than every other expense going up combined and it’s a very self inflicted problem.
Idk about you but most people have decades of mortgages, so a couple decades is normal.
I live rural so my prices on most things are different. No 700k average house price like in Adelaide. The electricity is the full house cost, we have solar but no battery because dropping all of my savings on a battery to save money on electricity that isn’t costing a whole lot for us seems pretty wasteful. Seems like a thing for people with bigger electricity bills.
Almost 30, have seen throughout my life the liberal party doing consistent damage, and every time the Labor party shows up they pull us out of the shit and do a great job.
Currently I am the most economically comfortable I’ve ever been, including all parts of childhood. I haven’t walked around a store doing math to figure out what I can actually afford in a couple years and I no longer have to think, well, if I run out of money I can live on oats for $30/w. Spent a lot of time pretty much exclusively eating oats. Not sure how well I’d go back to that given I spend that much in a day or 2 now on much nicer food.
Almost 30, so you’ve voted what, 3 times? Yeah you’re new to this politics thing.
So you can afford a property with a mortgage now, or you will be able to get a mortgage “in a couple of decades”? Pretty significantly different things.
Ok so by the sounds of it youre way out where the cost of living increases havent been dramatic, neither has the house price issue. So you’re an outlier and not really representative of the majority. It’s a fact that the majority are struggling now more than ever, that there is a cost of living crisis, that there is a housing crisis, that there is a power price crisis. Even labor acknowledge this. They just won’t take any blame and keep saying that they’re the only ones that will fix it…with policies that make it worse.
I could get a mortgage in like 3 years if I felt like it (I really really don’t, fuck interest).
They are pushing policies to fix it, as opposed to the liberal party who literally won’t fix anything because they only make shit worse.
One party is trying to spend billions on housing, one isn’t. One party is trying to get more cheaper electricity, one isn’t. One party is increasing pay for the poorest in society, one isn’t. One party wants to help the environment, one doesn’t consider the environment to be an issue. One party is happy for LGBT people to exist, one isn’t. One party is known for introducing major things that help Australians like Medicare, NDIS and super, one isn’t. One party has managed a surplus in my adult life, one hasn’t.
I’m not saying issues don’t exist, I’m saying the party that is in power most of the time isn’t fixing it, and the Labor party has a long history of being for workers and is actually trying to do something about it. its mostly competent and well meaning vs greedy and/or incompetent, and it’s real clear with all the corruption and shady shit the coalition does which party is which.