Consent_Withdrawn- Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2017
TO ALL AUSTRALIANS:
If you want to help to end homelessness in this country, if you believe it to be an abhorrence in this day and age and you believe it to be unnecessarily or unhelpful (because NOBODY wants or deserves to be driven by fear or bullied and nor is it necessary in a civilised society if the rule of law has stayed above reproach), my advice is to put political preferences aside and vote for a Royal Commission into banking.
A year is a long time to wait, so if anybody you know is having to fight to stay in their homes, we may be able to help them now by putting more pressure on the government to change their tune, or calling for the Governor General to sack them, or by taking to the streets with pots, pans, placards and pitchforks.
Even if you voted for the current government I can't stress enough that their inaction most likely costs you a fair bit more in many ways you may never have considered (which are easily enough explained) than what the policy tweaks they manage to retain would gain for you.
In fact I would even suggest that if you knew from experience what so many of us do now, you'd probably realise that you might stand to lose more than anyone who needed a low doc loan to afford a place of their own for whatever reason (because it isn't just about income or management thereof).
Nobody is safe from the kind of misconduct which can continue unabated in the current legislative environment, we may as well go back to straight up anarchy and it wouldn't have so many of us feeling like trapped rats while cowardly crooks laugh at us from their gilded palaces (which are probably paid for by all of us).
Screw them.
If by some miracle this government doesn't implode soon and manages to hang on by caving to the pressure for the RC, then regardless of who you are or from what background, it will be critical to your future to ensure that the investigation is conducted as thoroughly as possible. It must be a full investigation with wide terms of reference - so that it has the power to uncover the trail.
That is crucial for all those whose calls for justice have fallen upon deaf ears, for who could know if the collateral damage hadn't affected your own situation somehow. Might be a case of you can bank on it.
I don't believe this country can afford another failure on the issue.
It has become far too easy to perceive that only one industry has the financial resources to pursue legal outcomes beyond the reach of anyone else's whilst maintaining a dominant influence over the legislature to remove adequate protections in law, and that should worry us all if we are to maintain faith in the rule of law.
I don't know how the courts can stomach such political apathy. Surely there can't be too many coalition voters left in them now.