Opinion: The ‘fair go’ has gone and stage one of the revolution has happened
We have been warned. Even here in the land of the mythical “fair go”, we can no longer feel smug about our alleged egalitarianism.: “No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.
When young people discovered that they couldn’t afford to buy property in areas such as Bondi and Hawthorn, they blamed the government, voting in Allegra Spender and Monique Ryan. The lack of affordable housing was also a factor in the election of Zoe Daniel in Goldstein. Despite a desperate need for affordable housing along with spaces for refugees and creatives, Callan Park is just a place for Radio National listeners to walk their dogs.During the nightmare years, texting the local WhatsApp group would often yield the location of your vodka-soaked teenager within an hour, accompanied by an offer to bring him home. We were basically the Stasi, in better clothes.
All Australian capital cities are experiencing these problems, where young people can’t leave home and live anywhere remotely near their places of work and study. No wonder they’re angry.
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