Easily Drive and Direct Democracy – Guide Governments

Giving guidance to government
More than ever, Australian voters need to drive, guide, direct and encourage their federal and state parliaments. We have failed in our prime duty to tell our elected representatives what we wanted them to do. With 17 million voters, 27 million people, with thousands of different ideas and priorities, we could not expect MPs to know what we wanted without us telling them, which we mostly don’t. Big business has stepped in and kindly filled the gap by telling the political parties that it funds and lobbys, to adopt policies that make big business billionaire corporations, their big shareholders, directors and executives even richer.
Governments are deliberately forced by parliamentarians into more and more unaffordable interest-bearing debt. Immigration is out of control and over-populating our major cities. Governments steadfastly refuse to develop at least one of our biggest regional and rural cities in each state where homes cost a quarter or less of capital city prices, to what Sydney or Melbourne was 50 years ago. That keeps big city prices and profits high to line the pockets of the super-rich and hold wages down to the detriment of the poorest 50%.
Demand for goods and services has increased with migration faster than government and industries could provide what was needed by both new immigrants and established Australians. Big corporations earning billions and paying executives millions, pay 30% tax on what profit is left after their tax avoidance schemes. Voters pay 45% on earnings over $180,000 plus GST of 10% on much of their spending, so about 50+%.
Because of the low company tax rate and the vast amounts of money that the big corporations suck out of the economy, governments have no hope of funding the necessary hospitals, doctors, nurses, schools, teachers ,school support staff, family services, youth services, fostering service, police, fire and ambulance services plus new infrastructure like public housing, tunnels, bridges, rail and roads to transport the increased population.
The sky is not falling in, but on the ground the very deliberate rapid population increase has had a devastating impact on the Australian way of life, housing affordability, family happiness and community spirit. We could easily cope with our natural increases in population, though warned that zero population growth was what the world needed. We cannot cope with this force-fed growth which is primarily designed to enrich the already-rich and make life unbearable for the least wealthy 50% of the population.
Why are we increasing inequality?
The gap between the pay rates of workers on $25,000 a year and company CEOs on $700,000 A MONTH is just obscene. The bottom 25% needs a big pay rise and the top 25% needs a pay cut. Companies are separate legal entities and should pay the same tax rates as voters do.
The Federal Government is collecting our taxes, but pumping immigrants into the states and leaving the states with totally insufficient money to service the rapidly increasing population. Voters need to request from Federal Parliament this year 2025, double the normal state government annual funding to cope with the ongoing operational and capital infrastructure works required for our population expanded by a few million immigrants in recent years thanks to the policies of those Federal politicians.
The cost of living crisis provokes absurd stories suggesting that parents and grandparents ( The bank of Mum & Dad, Gramps and Gran) have never before financially supported their children. When I was growing up both grandparents and other family members helped with money and food boxes when my widowed mother could not afford it. My wife and I could not have bought our $16,000 home without a short-term loan of $1,000 from my ultra poor grandmother to do so. It was probably all she had. My mother in her old age often sent me $20 or $50 from her pension money to help with our family expenses when our children were young and our income low. An article complains about children still living at home because of the cost of housing. We were thrilled to have one child living at home until their late 20s. It was far from an imposition. It was great.
Disadvantage by Public Education
Have our federal and state politicians deliberately failed to fund public education enough so that Australians can properly fill the jobs required to service our rapidly growing population? Is this a plan to damage our youth, particularly those from poorer families and stunt their career advancement?
Has this been done to justify bringing in way more migrants than our natural increase, creating that demand to inflate the price of homes, food clothing and government services, to vastly increase the multi-billion dollar profits of big corporations?
Are Australian voters being cheated on a grand scale by the influence of big business donors and lobbyists?
Is a generous visa program to help foreign students being used as a fraudulent way of them obtaining permanent residence in Australia whilst turning universities into profit-making machines and denying poorer Australian students access to higher learning that can transform their finances? Does this set young migrants up to be themselves exploited and treated more like slaves than staff?
It is up to Voters to Set the Agenda
Australia does want immigrants but we also want the government to have the services and infrastructure needed, provided partly in advance and partly as the immigrants arrive, so that Australians are not priced out of existence in their own country by foreigners courtesy of the politicians they elect and pay.
Are the best solutions to the massive problem federal parliament has imposed on Australians by failing to properly manage its immigration-driven population increase, something like the following:
( If you don’t think they are quite what is needed, think of good alternatives. Then think of sending your own Votergram to your state and federal Parliament asking that it be done.
- Pause immigration for 5 years and make money by exporting goods and services instead of by selling off residential, commercial and farming land to foreigners.
- Having priced young Australians out of reasonably priced homes in state capitals, develop at least one more major city in each state to dramatically cut the land cost of decent homes with safe backyards for children, as well as unit blocks and town houses for those who prefer them. Canberra is a good example of how to do it.
- Think carefully about what each of these new cities should contain or be near to in order to attract people of all ages and situations away from the current capital cities so that prices there do settle down, the infrastructure there remains adequate and we do not have to tunnel underground at astronomical cost for every new road or railway track needed by the increasing population.