We would typically blame the government for mismanaging the spending in public sector.
I have personally witnessed how corrupt the NDIS is. It's just crazy.


A mamasan in Drummoyne told me she felt the immediate effect of business downturn after the interest hike to 4.8%.
Last Friday I went to an established shop in Burwood and was shown a lineup of 6 girls coming of the room apparently all waiting for a customer. They must be quiet.
I visited another small shop of 3 girls in Burwood. One girl was busy with two other girls sitting and waiting aound. Again Mamasan was complaining about slowness in business.
Read about gloomy economic reports for the next 2 or 3 years. It is not encouraging. We may be heading for a recession.
Personally I foresee a decrease of punting to face the tough and belt-tightening days ahead.
Next election is two years away to turf out the financially irresponsible and free spending Labour Party.




We would typically blame the government for mismanaging the spending in public sector.
I have personally witnessed how corrupt the NDIS is. It's just crazy.
I think we got at least one more rate rise followed by mass unemployment with multiple businesses collapsing

I can’t see the Libs’ and ON’s proposed mass cuts to immigration helping the punting scene. Won’t it just result in less girls coming in? And that will just lead to higher rates of the girls that are left.





....you can blame Albo and the hired goons for the mess Oz is in.





Every policy and decision has been expressly designed to alienate, monitor/control, and impoverish "everyday people" - the government's response to everything is to spend more (and more, and more) taxpayer money on frivolous shit, while slowly eroding our basic freedoms to make us look more like China. They inflate the Australian dollar shamelessly and keep "everyday people" demoralised, poor, and on a tight leash. It's textbook Marxism, and people are finally waking up - hence the catastrophic drop in approval for these self-enriching tyrants. Everything they touch turns to shit.






There is a paradox and I can't figure out how it works; apparently everyone cries about cost of living crisis, Average salary according to ABS is 78K, poverty line is 100k and still all restaurants in city are busy, people que in front of Molly Tea and you see plenty of luxury cars on the road!
Albo has lived politics his entire life. He is smarter than all the others, bet he will get rid of Chalmers the way Trump is dumping Hegseth, and in 2 years people won't remember these interest rates.
On another note the news story of Chinese delivery guy was deeply saddening. Shocking such a thing is happening. I donated a small amount to the Gofundme page for his family. The link is organised by association of Chinese businesses in Melbourne, hopefully it is genuine.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/melbourne...elp-his-family




6 more 0.25% hikes according to an economist and he had a strong point. At 4.8%, the cash rate is still not high enough to actually counteract inflation. It only feels like it's too high for a small cohort that may have overleveraged themselves. You can't have an economy wide impact simply by making a few mortgage stressed people tighten their budgets. So it needs to go up to more than 6% to affect the entire economy.
EDIT: I also think that Australia is in a uniquely bad situation now because we raised rates too late and cut them too early back in 2021 through to 2025. Remember the "wait and see" approach? We were cheering that move like it was a genius move but now it feels like it's all coming back at us!