The Spying Game in Oz

[Ian Thomas]

As we know, the nation's housing /rental crisis is down to Labor's HUGE increase in immigration. Why do they do it? Cynical me says, "If Aussies won't vote Labor, bring in hordes of coloured welfare mendicants who will." The country's f*cked if this madness isn't turned back.

Whatever. Our bankrupt State government's revenue focus now turns to investment properties and holiday homes.

Tax on empty homes and vacant land to free up housing. (2023, October 3). Yahoo News.
au.news.yahoo.com/victoria-vacant-residential-land-tax-233344073.html

“Develop the land or sell it”: Victoria to broaden vacant land tax.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article/develop-the-land-or-sell-it-victoria-to-broaden-vacant-land-tax/ghesfuekp

Question is, how can "The Guvment" know if owners do actually live in their properties or not? 

As always the Australian Way is to spy upon and dob them in. We're talking toilet checks (!!) and neighbours keeping tabs on your comings and goings. The SRO's even planning to check up on your grocery purchases. Not buying enough stuff at Woolies near your dacha on the Otway coast? Gotcha!  Another absentee owner in-the-tax-bag .. I mean, FFS!!!

The “absurd” way the Victorian government may check if properties are vacant.
www.3aw.com.au/the-absurd-way-the-victorian-government-may-check-if-properties-are-vacant/

Labor Government to spy on holiday home usage—Liberal Victoria.
vic.liberal.org.au/media-releases/2023-10-12-labor-government-to-spy-on-holiday-home-usage

Australia has never really needed an all-pervasive STASI-type Secret Police. Our cops and spooks rely mostly on people's friends, neighbours & disaffected family members to inform.

There's a life-lesson in that: your big mouth can bring you down.

"Truth needs a bodyguard of lies."

  Winston Churchill (attrib.)

[dennisw]

They are succeeding, the fact that Labor won yesterday's byelection shows that the majority are not able to grasp the problem of debt and what it means to this state.