With Melbourne in lockdown and NSW and QLD all in deteriorating financial conditions right as Jobkeeper/JobSeeker are winding down, are they trying to turn their cities into mini-Jakartas? Where half the city is destitute?
Seems that way. Melbourne is acting like a dictatorship
Seems that way. Melbourne is acting like a dictatorship
Their export base is the worst in the first world. Reducing JobSeeker benefits in half as the economy crumbles will just make poverty become entrenched for millions and throw more and more into extreme poverty.
As a % share of national population, Vic is the AU equivalent of Quebec in Canada. Hypothetically, if Quebec crumbled into dictatorship and mass poverty, that's enough of a slice of the population to drag the national economy into collapse. So I would be worried if I were them.
Vic state is the nation's cash cow for the most important industry - education - now in ruins. By not fixing this, the whole poor export industry economy will collapse as industry is non existent in most areas. AU can least afford the current situation.
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