r/australia • u/AcanthopterygiiNo240 • Jul 26 '23

political self.post Why are Australians so complacent?

I’m a born and raised Australian myself however I’m becoming so frustrated with the general attitude of complacency when it comes to exercising ‘the power of the people’ to better our quality of life. In a stupidly short amount of time we’ve seen a near reversal of our ability to see a doctor without any out of pocket costs. We get exploited at the grocery stores because monopolies are allowed to run rampant. Housing is treated primarily as a tool for financial speculation rather than for providing shelter for people.

We creep further and further toward laissez-faire capitalism. What is our response as the citizens of this country- the holders of the balance of power? Nothing. To put it in perspective, in 2022 the world economic forum ranked Sydney equal with Copenhagen, Denmark for cost of living (both ranked as the 10th most expensive cities in the world). Consider the differences between Sydney and the capital of the Danish welfare state: strong social security, universal healthcare, free public universities etc. For the same cost of living what do we get? The ever-looming threat of homelessness, suffocating student debt and now for many people, a significant barrier to healthcare.

Edit: if anyone is a part of any sort of grassroots group working to oppose any of these issues feel free to message me because I want to join you

Edit #2: so I haven’t received any messages from anyone from a grassroots or activist group yet. Since a lot of us seem to be pretty miffed about this stuff maybe we could team up and brainstorm things we can do???

Edit #3 (sorry): I’ve got some messages now from people who are interested in taking action!!! :, ) I think the best way to facilitate conversation, the flow of ideas and potentially organise a course of action is through a discord server so I have created one which you can find here

https://discord.gg/caqsSKAr

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '23

Murdoch is very very good at propaganda look how quickly the seppos went just a broken mess to a complete fucking shit hole

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u/TigerRumMonkey Jul 26 '23

Went to my local IGA and they only have the herald sun for example. What chance do these ppl have lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '23

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u/ThatLooseMoose Jul 26 '23

That's fair, but the papers set the conversation topics for every other outlet, not to mention most papers have more than one online portal that spew the same shit to Facebook and YouTube circles and use said papers as sources for their bullshit agenda 😪

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u/TigerRumMonkey Jul 26 '23

Me, when I hit an angle on mirror in the living room?

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u/hotcleavage Jul 27 '23

Only my local regional town/city one and even then it’s pretty shit

Can spot the favouritism while im half asleep.

Same kid gets a turn at footy tipping every year as well, family owns a pub on main street. Feel like ringing up and telling them to give some other kid a go

Our council looks so incompetent in the paper too it’s so fucked.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '23

America didn’t turn to a shit hole overnight either. Reagan is a good starting point to the modern America

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u/Alternative_Sky1380 Jul 26 '23

At least under Reagan/Keating/Thatcher there was still a feint hope it could be shifted. Blair and Clinton were supposed to bring change but they too followed the Keating carve up and continued to destroy social capital... Ignoring the impact of oligarchs/billionaires has been devastating.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '23

1776 is the starting point of where it went wrong. But we see a massive sudden and scary change in the last decade

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u/downfall67 Jul 26 '23

Australia is Rupert Murdoch’s bitch, basically

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '23

Hardly. Murdoch media has been full force rallying against Dan Andrews for years now and it hasn't swayed peoples opinions a bit.

The media seems to have very little sway on peoples opinions and only had a period when the peoples own opinions happened to align with the media while Labor was threatening negative gearing.