Victoria disease is the phenomenon of a permanent Labor government leading to a mass-immigration-led economy without the aforethought of appropriate supply-side expansion to accommodate it.
This economic model crush-loads public services amid fiscal wreckage, crowds out private sector growth, triggers housing perma-crisis, falling living standards and disenfranchised violence.
Symptoms are everywhere.
Private security guards patrolling housing estates in Melbourne’s outer west will start carrying guns before the end of the year as they face an unprecedented wave of violent home invasions, carjackings and machete attacks.
Torched stolen cars, high-speed chases, machete slashings and bloodied streets have become all too frequent in the city’s booming western fringe, where police are often stretched thin, and youth gangs are going to war.
“The escalation to firearms is because of what’s coming our way and the threats against our safety, against my team,” said Grant Burton, the owner of security company YPG Risk, whose night patrols are funded by housing estate residents.
Machetes are a way of life.
Two teenage boys have been left with slash wounds when they were attacked by a machete-wielding group outside Melbourne’s Luna Park.
And the city becomes a hellscape.
Police have sharply criticised protesters in Melbourne’s CBD after two officers were taken to hospital and rocks, glass and rotten fruit were thrown at officers during violent scuffles.
Police spent hours on Sunday afternoon trying to keep anti-immigration protesters and counter-protesters apart. The counter-protesters were accused of fuelling the violence, although they disputed that claim on Sunday night.
Police were unequivocal that the March for Australia was peaceful, while the Pivot to Palestine was violent.
But note that both sides are wrestling with the same problem: Victoria’s immigration-led economic model.
The government has no idea what to do other than to make it legal to lock yourself away at home and to brand those who object to it.
A Melbourne woman left mentally and physically scarred by a random CBD stabbing says she is now terrified to walk the streets, as Premier Jacinta Allan defended her government’s crime record and failed to explicitly guarantee that the city is safe.
Victoria disease is killing the host. Invite it into your city at your peril.
