The fireworks just went off to herald in 2025. Having negative thoughts, hoping that the United States government defaults on interest payments for its $35 trillion national debt.
Here are my positive hopes: Ceasefire in Gaza, Free Palestine, Boeing goes broke, an end to the US blockade of Cuba, an end to the inequality crisis.
Speaking of which, here is the inequality crisis dressed up as ‘the housing crisis‘, a story by Brisbane journo, Andrew Messenger.- Ian Curr, editor, 1 January 2025.
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Caught in a crackdown on Brisbane’s rough sleepers, Sasha lost her child and home on the same day.
As the city’s homeless are ordered from their tents after sweeps by council ‘pink shirts’, some claim it is more about visibility than a ‘security issue’.
The day after Sasha Harmond learned her eight-year-old child, Elijah, was dying in hospital, she was ordered to move on from her home – a tent in Orleigh Park, in Brisbane’s inner west.
The police, “pink shirts” from state housing authorities and council staff arrived in heavy rain last week; they had umbrellas. The homeless people – who did not have even access to a shower – were ordered out of their tents. Read more https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/22/queensland-rough-sleeping-parks-crackdown-orleigh-park-brisbane?CMP=share_btn_url
Andrew Messenger
Sun 22 Dec 2024 10.00 AEDT
