It is amazing to behold how lacking in self-interest Australian youth is. It votes overwhelmingly for Labor. Yet the Albanese Government is far more hostile to youth wellbeing than any previous Coalition government.
Albo’s war on youth is multidisciplinary. It takes in basic economics, living standards, a place to live, the caliber of public services, welfare, and all the way up to geopolitics.
If we look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it is as if Albo has set about inverting the ziggurat:
Albo’s most vicious war is upon the physiological needs of youth:
- getting a job and a pay rise;
- finding a place to rent or buy;
- accessing public services like health and education which are crushloaded and debased.
All of these are under intense assault from Albo’s lunatic mass immigration program designed for the big end of town.
Today we can add this little beauty:
Jim Chalmers will reject a core $24bn recommendation from his Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee that the “seriously inadequate” JobSeeker be increased by 40 per cent to just under $1000 a fortnight.
JobSeeker is the lowest anywhere:
But not low enough for Albo, apparently. Even though the much more expensive Stage 3 tax cuts are untouched, and will all go to the aged and wealthy:
Rural Australia and Tasmania will receive almost no benefit from the $250bn stage-three tax cuts, a new analysis has found, with Jacqui Lambie hardening her stance against them.
Research by the Australia Institute has concluded rural and regional communities will receive the least benefit from the controversial final stage of the Morrison government tax reforms, given their comparatively lower earnings.
Safety is Albo’s next target. Rather than plan for Australia to influence the US in ways that minimise the chances of war with China, Albo is busy maximising those chances by selling national security to the Americans, while selling the economy to China.
This ensures not only that Washington will decide Australian youth’s fate at the point of a rifle, but Beijing will decide the economic cost.
There is climate change mitigation, on which Albo is slightly better than the Coalition. But not much. The market is driving those changes now and Albo’s efforts to date have been minimal. Moreover, any environmental benefits are completely overwhelmed by population growth.
Albo’s war on youth becomes even more baffling, or baleful, when one considers where the government is delivering on issues that preoccupy the young: Voice, multiculturalism, the Republic, LQGBTAI++++ etc.
This is mostly symbolic politics that fits into the largely irrelevant point of the pyramid of needs. No job, pay, or house but all good vibes!
It is the case that the Coalition hates youth. But Albo is even worse as he pretends to care.
