Rents & Property Prices Disastrously Inflated for the Investment Profit of Old Rich People and the Neoliberal Inflation & Growth Nerds of Both Major Party Groupings with No Idea of or Care for Responsible Economic Management

openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/116278/1/apo-nid118611-475741.pdf

“The Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement of 1956 is commonly seen
as marking a shift in policy and in political rhetoric, away from public
housing provision towards private home-ownership. Before examining
the evolution of this policy shift, this paper frames it within the context of
the social history of the early 1950s, particularly the post-war affirmation
of the independent family, with its commitments to domesticity as a basis
of citizenship, but in a period when a severe housing shortage also
signaled uncertainties about the reliability of the economic boon. The
paper then examines in detail the evolution of the 1956 Agreement within
the conservative parties, the Commonwealth bureaucracy and the Cabinet.
It concludes that, even though home-ownership emerges from these
debates as a central ideological priority for the Menzies government,
Cabinet thwarted the attempt of Senator Spooner — as the responsible
minister — to abolish the CSHA altogether..”

Above, on the standard academic historical lines nobody seriously working for radical social and economic change really any longer has time to read is John Murphy’s introductory explainer ..sorry i skipped over it at first and just left the link hanging mysteriously in the intelligent electronic ambience in forlorn anticipation of visitation by a Prof Chomsky bulldozer..

Uh-oh he called the entire #Internet ‘a bulldozer’ not the self-conscious predominantly #RCHS-driven #LCHS executive action required to use the vastly metastasising cybermatrix as a ‘bulldozing.’ But that’s no problem to those of us schooled in 20th century #social #science, or simply people who’ve transitioned cognitively to mastery of Piaget’s #concrete #operations, or, how shall I put this politely(?), grown-ups who never fail to embrace #Value in conjunction with #Fact, and will as long as they draw breath ceaselessly think about stuff – #ideation + #Object. See Becker, Nagel, McLuhan & RD Laing (on the literal and actual social (human relationships-) causes of both #depression and #psychotic illness) for examples.

Did I digress? Hah.

Our point which I am magnanimously certain is embraced by millions more thoughtful human beings every week at this terrifying juncture in the history of our species and all the other animals, birds, insects, crustaceans, fish and indeed biologically lesser beings might be succinctly and tersely put when we say like Henry Ford #USA industrialist #History is bunc(om)* at least out of common self-respect if not the love of our own sanity to examine the coercive exploitative #economic motives of the political players here. You might choose to call this scrutiny of political facts, events and motives pragmatism, as the late RJL Hawke did.

And the coercive exploitative economic motive? Or the temper of the times, Leitmotif or motif?? That now-transcendent Ayn Rand/ Alan Greenspan/ Milton “#Freedumb” Friedman neoliberal zeitgeist??? – That was Menzies’ 1944 Reverse Class Warfare by shopkeepers, rentiers & gangsters against the Australian labour movement, nowadays conducted exclusively against what these numpties and rich old men call the “Left,” and actually led by @AustralianLabor’s OWN barking-mad misanthropic enthusiasts for “a little rougher than usual handling” of women, the #Catholic “Right.” **

But you knew that? Just like five days ago you instantly realised what Scott John Morrison was up to erasing and overriding the ministerial authority of five of his own chosen and officially appointed ministers BECAUSE these people would grizzle, groan and even obstruct or quash the various lunatic Institute of Public Affairs boondoggles, vast gifts of public money for #LNP donors and #FossilFuel investors and nasty crackdowns on not just folk on $20k or less or even zero disposable income (eg refugees) but EVERY Australian family on less than $65 – 70,000 annual income that these Albert-Einsteins had planned and calculated in the lead-up to 21st May 2022? Cool. We’re on the same page.

The entire frankly benighted neoliberal fruitcake political class will catch up with our thinking. The #journalists have no choice but to catch up or get the proverbial chopper (there will be no guillotines, ok?). And good riddance to the vast majority of them. If wisdom is a gift then economic insight is a blessing*** indeed. Welcome this era of overhauled education and hard science, research and development geared to and directed to global ecological health.

Peace? That was a Bretton Woods bankers’ & then millionaires comforting lie born out of horror, pain and grief of Hjalmar Schact’s and Adolf Hitler’s #Oil-#economy #war. – The whole neoliberal neo-keynesian monetarist geopolitical mythology, the fake-#science, and the perverted #mathematics of #Econometrics of the second half of the 20th century turn on this bloody evil lie. I suppose it, Peace objectified, literally means middle-class affluent consumerism in the extractive natural resource-trashing and in fact genocidal export economy.

This devastating obscenity was exactly what Barnaby Joyce, an Australian National Party MP, and no doubt the former PM Bob Menzies too, would have called Retail Politics: gifts rewarding voters, payola, PNG ‘cargo,’ vast taxation offsets, Christian churches wallowing in real estate-, industrial- and Gatesian/ Soros-style “charitable” foundation or solicited donations-wealth, “tithing” (1/10 of income), similar schemes, the near-exact equivalent of the payment of large mediaeval “Indulgences” to rubber-stamp civil, criminal and moral crimes granting the donor immunity from magisterial or celestial punishments AND actually TRASHING free liberal #education and financially taking-over non-profitable “churches” in other countries. For Christ’s sake, sure.

The self-fulfilling and self-perpetuating prophecy of supply-side neoliberal consumer bounties, they reckoned.

If wisdom is a gift then economic insight is a blessing indeed. We all of sound mind and good heart welcome this era of overhauled education and hard science, and embrace research and development geared to and directed to purposeful economic reform and global ecological health TOGETHER.

John Blundell

Independent Journalist

13th August 2022

South Australia – With our Love: let’s do some work please🥸🤨🤓😎🧐😷🙂😋.

*Henry Ford, the Wayside Inn, and the Problem of ‘History Is Bunk’ — Bunk

**https://www.smh.com.au/national/rougher-than-usual-justice-20041209-gdka15.html