Walking around various local suburbs going about my normal shopping, it’s fair to say that things have deteriorated.
~ Rubbish in the streets
~ Pot holes on our roads that go unrepaired (this annoys me because it destroys my car wheels)
~ Police cars with graffiti on them (signs of protest made by the police themselves against the government for not having a pay rise in years)
~ Waiting 4 hours to have an ambulance come out to emergency calls (a couple of people I know who work in the hospital system ave told me that Victoria has run out of money. Literally nothing left which explains the health system collapse and the dire situation with our police)
~ Police, nurses, teachers all striking (if your front line workers strike, what’s that saying?!)
~ Found out that if you want to join the police force, its user pays (you don’t get accommodated there and you pay for your own uniforms and health checks)
~ Lack of retail staff to serve customers (I’ve had to walk out of some shops because of long queues at the one and only teller)
~ Amount of homeless people IN OUR SUBURB! (You’d never see this but now it’s common)
~ $15 block of normal Cadbury milk chocolate so I don’t buy chocolate anymore
~ Coles and Woolworths our two largest supermarket chains raking billions in profits while advertising they’re making food cheaper for the cost of living crisis
~ Everything is wrapped in bloody plastic at the supermarket and then they have the audacity to tell us that we should be caring for the environment and go bag less or use less plastic wrapping
~ Security guards in shops and supermarkets
~ lots of For Lease signs on shops
~ General grunginess and tired looking shops and people.
~ Second hand shops making booming sales as people can’t afford many things
~ Shops and shopping centres very quiet
It’s quite depressing to see all this but methinks this is the same state of affairs elsewhere too.
I’m beginning to question further now how I used to vote in the past and how I’ll vote in the future. Both the major parties now, seem to me, to be exactly the same. Australia seems to be siding up to America more and more and following what they want so I can’t help but feel that it was misguided in some way.
I’m sure I am not the only one who feels this way. Maybe the major parties now need to worry about themselves and how people will vote for the minor parties next time.
I think people have had a gutful.
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