Victoria disease is the malady of endless Labor government leading to a mass immigration led economic model that destroys living standards via private sector crowding out, onerous public debt, industrial hollowing out and capital shallowing.
Rinse and repeat.
It is a national affliction but Victoria is it’s progenitor and the case has metastasised the most.
What you expect to see in a political economy of this nature is a disintegrating social fabric, rising conflict, and mushrooming crime.
Hello AFR:
Tim Watson agreed. “The city’s not in a good state – people don’t feel safe at the football,” he said, recalling how in April, two men carried loaded guns into a Carlton-Collingwood blockbuster at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
…Reece’s Peter Wilson said Victoria was “the toughest place in the country to do business”. Accent Group’s Daniel Agostinelli said theft and attacks – like the machete brawl at Preston’s Northland earlier this year – threatened to kill the suburban shopping mall. “We need the authorities to do something about this, not just because of theft but bad vibes in shopping centres.”
Woolworths said its Victorian stores accounted for half of a national spike in violent crime, while Coles has said its Victorian stores report 40 per cent more crime than those in NSW.
“The only area where we’re seeing stronger growth in Victoria is the sale of home security products within Bunnings,” said Wesfarmers’ Rob Scott.
Having been on the receiving end of this myself, I will add my two cents’ worth.
The fundamental character of Victoria is corrupt. Nowhere else in the nation does your school, your mates, your class matter more.
When times are good, this expresses itself as a helping hand for those left behind. When they are bad, it is expressed as a grasping and vicious cringe that is borderline psychopathic.
Things are bad. Lockdowns destroyed vulnerable Victorian psychology. It is now trapped in a form of political Stockholm syndrome that promises self-destructive policies to lock you in your house instead of hope and change for a better life.
Crime is a way of life. There is no going to the mall without advanced street smarts. Machetes are everywhere.
We call them machetes, but, in truth, they are more like broadswords. What Australian city should ever have a broadsword problem? Are we living in the Middle Ages? Yet my kids know all about which gangs have them and where.
Victorian public services are not just crush-loaded, they are collapsing. This is not only expressed through topline statistics. It is a qualitative outcome. Under training, corner-cutting, makeshift policy, the Peter principle and institutional postures of self-defence are all contributing.
The wrong people are doing the wrong jobs amid an economic model built on relentless demand growth from a burgeoning population, not more efficient service delivery via innovation, meaning collapsed outcomes.
Victoria was once thought to have the best public service in the country. Now it is the worst.
Paradoxically, the worse it gets, the more entrenched the Stockholm syndrome becomes, as vital remedial policies such as slashed immigration, budget repair and private sector revitalisation instead turn into intractable binaries of lost conversation.
Victoria is the centre of Australian woke and home to its boldest neo-Nazis, a pair that goes hand in hand. While the church of sport rises ever higher as it empties out.
Victoria disease is so fatal to quality of life that it is now a running joke.
