Why Are Australians Not Kicking up a Fuss Like The French Do?

Lkaoz on 29/03/2023 - 19:25
Last edited 31/03/2023 - 23:28 by 1 other user

As of 1st July 2023 the age pension eligibility in Australia will be raised yet again to 67 years, for people born after 1st January 1957.

Our social system is declining with more and more social services being privatised and becoming unaffordable to low-income families and individuals.

Why are we not on the streets demanding better living condition and a more equal distribution of wealth, while letting big corporations get away with not paying their fair share of taxes and spending billions of dollars on nuclear submarines.

Has Australia gotten too soft?

Edit: what would it take for Aussies to get up and protest for their rights?
Edit2: definition of aged pension

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Comments

      • Duckie2hh on 03/04/2023 - 11:04

        I thought boomers ONLY relied on social security?

        #don'tbeabum

    • Mad Max on 02/04/2023 - 20:36

      Yes, it should be a safety net to just keep people fed and a cheap roof on their heads. That is all it should be.
      But because it is too good people use it as a plan instead of a last resort safety net. They just spend all they earn during their working life (if they earn anything at all…) and then they wait for the government (taxpayer) to support them because they have not saved anything. And they complain because they cannot afford to go on holidays or change the car.

  • bigbadboogieman on 02/04/2023 - 20:32
    +1

    some protesters were treated badly… so I guess it's not going to be easy.

    https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/nsw-poli…

    • kaoz on 02/04/2023 - 20:34

      Jeezus…!

  • gfjh567gh3 on 02/04/2023 - 22:08

    We've had it too good for too long. Our nation did not know struggle to build itself, other than the excellent work of our pioneers and settlers

    Our parasitic welfare base is exceeding our tax paying base

    Mostly, and this is what people would protest hardest if they understood it - inflation is worse than a tax, it negatively affects our wages and our savings, it makes assets like homes more expensive, and it's all so that the federal reserve and government can print themselves more money and play funny business with financial institutions

  • Protractor on 04/04/2023 - 11:00

    Oh yes, too good for too long.
    All went pear shaped after we abolished feudalism….

  • infin on 13/04/2023 - 07:46
    +1

    Because Australians are submissive and love to be governed harder by the nanny state.

  • gfjh567gh3 on 26/04/2023 - 16:00
    -1

    I am a listener to No Agenda Podcast, who had someone from France write in.
    He said that the people rioting are effectively unionist/Marxist communist types, not necessarily representative of the typical French middle class.

    That said, Aussies has a good go at kicking up a fuss during lockdowns and mandates, but the cops went into full tactical response mode (even on grannies), they used EMP weapons on the Canberra protesters, and the media didn't just obfuscate large protests, but outright lied about the high numbers in attendance.

    There's also a legion of desk jockeys that play around online all day targeting 'far right wing conspiracy theorists' and making arrests. Meanwhile, new Australians are running around stabbing one another in daylight in public.

    Don't forget that BLM protests were allowed (complete with kneeling cops) and the Mardi Gras also proceeded. Food for thought.

  • boretentsu on 06/05/2023 - 22:31

    Why are we not on the streets demanding better living condition and a more equal distribution of wealth, while letting big corporations get away with not paying their fair share of taxes and spending billions of dollars on nuclear submarines.

    Maybe the conventional subs were supposed to pay for the pensions but when scomo scrapped the deal they had to find something else to balance the budget

  • Nuclearvodka on 11/05/2023 - 21:46
    +1

    Most Australians are too apathetic, too busy watching the footy and the tele which is just peddling pro libs BS

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