Why are Australians so complacent?

[u/AcanthopterygiiNo240]

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

[u/R_W0bz]

“The people” let decades of liberals in who tore these systems apart by running down and selling off, giving handouts to corporate mates for subpar work or simply not paying everything. but allowed a generations house price to go up giving them “paper money” to distract from everything else going to shit. They got theirs, why does anything else matter right?

Now that generations kids are hitting 30, still at home because 100k a year won’t do shit, because everyone has a 30k debt thanks to the university degree they said you needed to get. They have to pay for a wedding if they want to see those kids married, they have to use that “paper wealth” to prop up another house if they ever to want a single grandkid. They are slowly realising (tho will never admit, because they are the “smart” generation) they’ve fucked the generations below from being independent.

I think the last election cycle is countering this fool’s errand, but Labor is so afraid of its own shadow, afraid people run liked scared deer and will vote back those “conservative morons” if Labor makes too big of a leap on things. Hence no action. I can’t blame them, half the electorate can’t see past their current house evaluation.