Age readers take government to task on the sire situation for social housing.
Urban geographer Dr Kate Shaw, pictured, asks , Where is the outcry over public housing? She states that in government selling land with a request for 10 per cent ″affordable″ housing is feeble policy that not only shirks responsibility to directly address the housing crisis, but abrogates a fundamental role of government: to provide for those the market cannot – or will not.
We have to send a clear message to both main political parties that public land is there to address public social responsibilities not fiscal shortcomings.Kate Shaw’s article is a timely reminder of the injustice to those most in need of housing inherent in current Australian government housing policy and Victorian government housing policy in particular.
Voters aren’t stupid. They can recognise bully tactics and they have little respect for those who capitulate.Some of the arguments against banning gambling advertising remind me of the arguments against banning tobacco sponsorship of sport. However, methods of teaching reading in Australia in 2000 were very similar to those that are under attack today.
Handwringing and angst at the latest NAPLAN results is denialism or disingenuous at best. We have known for 20 years through Australian Early Development Census that 20 per cent of children begin their primary school career with a vulnerability in one or more developmental area. The proportion of children challenged in this way is, predictably, much greater in areas of socio-economic disadvantage and in First Nations children.
I would like to think that my children will benefit in the same way, as they make sacrifices and work hard, but I fear it will not be the case.To add to your correspondent’s reality check many of my fellow Boomers and I live courageously with acute and chronic health conditions as well as limitations of function and mobility.
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