Dear friend,
I want to ask you a serious question.
Is Australia still the country we grew up believing it was?
A country where if you worked hard, saved your money, bought a home and made sensible decisions, you had a pretty good chance of getting ahead.
A country where ordinary Australians could build something.
Own something.
Create some security.
And reasonably expect their children to have even greater opportunities than they did.
Because today, a lot of Australians are starting to wonder whether that country still exists.
Housing has become harder to afford.
The cost of living continues to rise.
Government debt continues to grow.
Taxes seem to reach further into our lives.
And people who have spent decades doing the “right thing” are beginning to ask whether the rules are being changed around them.
That’s why next week, over three special nights, I’ll be joining Pat Mesiti, former Federal Treasurer Peter Costello and economist Martin North for a very different conversation about Australia’s financial future.
Not political slogans.
Not carefully rehearsed answers.
And certainly not pretending everything is fine when Australians can clearly see that something has changed.
Peter Costello served as Treasurer during a period when Commonwealth Government net debt was eliminated and ten of twelve Federal Budgets were delivered in surplus.
Martin North has spent years analysing what is really happening inside Australian households, property and the economy.
I’ll be looking at the role of government, policy and the choices being made in Canberra.
And Pat has made one thing very clear.
He’s going to ask the hard questions.
No sugarcoating.
No dancing around the issues.
Over these three nights we’re going to ask:
What happened to the Australia where working hard and getting ahead seemed achievable?
What does our growing debt mean for ordinary Australians?
Are people who save, invest and build wealth increasingly being penalised for doing so?
Can the next generation still build genuine financial independence?
And perhaps most importantly...
If some of the old opportunities have disappeared, where are the new ones?
That’s the conversation I want to be part of.
And I think it’s one Australians need to hear.
This isn’t about wishing we could turn the clock back.
We can’t.
Australia has changed.
The economy has changed.
The rules have changed.
The real question is whether we recognise those changes early enough to make better decisions about what comes next.
Until next time, God bless you, your family and nation.
Take care,
George Christensen
George Christensen is a former Australian politician, a Christian, freedom lover, conservative, blogger, podcaster, journalist and theologian. He has been feted by the Epoch Times as a “champion of human rights” and his writings have been praised by Infowars’ Alex Jones as “excellent and informative”.
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I've been keeping a big spreadsheet with our finances, including current and future spending on it. It's tight. Really tight. And will be for the next 4 years! Hubby and I will be about 50 by the time we have some disposable income to burn! And if we play our cards right, we'll be mortgage-free - again - in about a decade. We did own our own house before, but sold up to build a bigger one (owner-builder, mind you), with more land, in a nicer area. Why? For our kids' futures! If we had chosen not to have children, we would've been very financially comfortable right now. But we've got 4 kids. By choice. And by having children, it seems we have sacrificed financial security. It almost seems like society says 'if you want kids, just have one; two at most. Otherwise you're going to cop it financially.' And that is just so wrong on so many levels.
We're both professionals, and we've worked hard. Our parents do not help us out, even though they can easily afford to. I got given $5K, once, by my mother, and once, by my father - in my entire life. And my father-in-law has loaned us very small sums, twice. Our parents have plenty. Far more than they need. But they won't give much more than lip service to help their families. I think that's really mean. I'd help my kids out if they were in need later on with their own families, especially if I didn't need the $. My friends are far more generous and have loaned me tens of thousands over the years, interest free, and I always pay it back. So yeah, without the generosity of some nice friends (and FWIW, if I had the money, I'd do the same for them), we'd be badly off right now with our 4 children; we would've been unable to finish building our house. There have been so many setbacks/delays, most of them out of our control. We're just trying to get ahead, and it's breaking the bank to do it! Great world we're living in, eh?
It's not just the price of food/goods & services, houses/land that have skyrocketed. Wages haven't kept up, either. And that really matters!
There are only going to be two classes of people, soon: rich and poor. Just how the rich want it...
I like to eat porridge. I usually buy the cheapest ones as they taste the same as the expensive stuff. However both Woolies and IGA sold out of them. Food for some has become expensive.