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We are a selfish mob, we Australians. And we are not particulary good at taking responsibility for our own actions. Take the debate about the soaring cost of living - the rise in the cost of everything from fuel to food to housing. The first place we look for answers and sheet home the blame is the Government.

Nothing, it seems, is our fault. Nearly 65 per cent of voters supported the Opposition’s proposal to cut fuel excise by 5c a litre. But then 83 per cent of the same respondents said cutting excise was only a short term solution. It’s the “gimme” mentality at work. Voters realise if it’s going to help their hip pockets in the short term, then stuff the consequences.

For those looking for a answers to rising prices, the best place to look might be your own back yards, not the Government. Hurting a bit when you fill up the tank? Perhaps some of you should take a good look at yourselves and ask why you need a two-tonne 4WD with enough sheet metal to withstand a direct hit from a two-inch mortar just to do the shopping and drive the kids to school.

Speaking of our own back yards, the same holds true with the cost of housing. A proposal to build an “affordable” housing development where the dwellings only have one-car garages, one bathroom and bugger-all in the way of a back yard has attracted a storm of criticism. Opponents have dismissed the project as building a collection of shacks.

It’s time for a reality check here. Since when was it every first home buyer’s right to move into a four-bedroom McMansion with two bathrooms, a swimming pool and a three-car garage? It’s up to us to alter our behaviour and stop demanding everything as a right before the supply side of the economic model runs out altogether.

If you are one of those people who can’t help themselves, and must have the best of everything right at this moment, a work-at-home opportunity may just be the answer to the money side.

 

 

 

 

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