The fake left masthead known as The Guardian is up to its old tricks again.
The paper never mentions mass immigration and excessive demand concerning rolling crises in housing, environment and carbon, water security, infrastructure, etc.
Now, it has taken this approach to a crisis in legal aid:
Almost half a billion dollars in extra funding is needed each year to meet demand for legal assistance in Australia, a new report commissioned by National Legal Aid has found.
The Justice on the Brink report found $484m in funding was needed to prevent the threat of “supply failure”, expand the availability of family and civil law services, provide greater access under the means test and increase fees for private lawyers.
It found commonwealth funding for legal aid had fallen 3% per capita over the past decade, but demand for employment, housing, goods and related services had increased.
The ongoing discussion is all about supply-side failure. Yet, if you read the actual report, it also covers demand and, whoa:
Demand for legal assistance has been rising, driven by strong population growth and developments across a number of key drivers in legal need.
Employment problems are more common today because 21 per cent more people are employed in Australia than 10 years ago. Housing problems are more common because there are 20 per cent more households. Non-scam contacts recorded in the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission database grew by 60 per cent between 2013 and 2021, so goods and services related legal needs are more prominent. Family law demand is up because 2021 saw 18 per cent more divorces than 2013.
Government payment-related need has grown because the number of people on Commonwealth government payments, benefits, allowances, and pensions is 26 per cent higher this year than a decade ago. Legal need arising from debt has increased because average household debt as a per cent of disposable income grew 10 per cent between 2013 and 2021.
These problems are much worse because Australian public and private services were never designed to accommodate an endless population shock from the Third World.
Industrial relations standards have collapsed into a morass of wage theft. Renters have been sardined, evicted and rorted. Government services have been crush-loaded.
All lead to parabolic abuse of the law that far outstrips the underlying population growth.
Take a look at the demand for legal aid in Victoria, for example, where the population grew by roughly 20% over a decade, and demand for legal aid went berserk:
Only COVID and the reversal of population pressure provided temporary relief.
This is yet another example of the diseconomies of scale of out-of-control immigration. The more people you add without commensurate investment, the less efficient everything gets, and living standards keep on falling:
Yet The Guardian story deliberately misreported the facts of the legal aid report and did not mention the demand drivers of the crisis.
We know why. The Guardian operates under the highly destructive Jericho Rule:
Immigration – because there are many desperate to hate – must be treated with extreme care by politicians and journalists…The inherently racist parties will seek to use any discussion and any seeming evidence of the negative impact of migrants as fuel to burn their fires of hate.
Hilariously, The Guardian’s journalism is now also a casualty of the harmful impact of quantitative peopling as it prints openly corrupt propaganda over facts.
And the ultimate irony, as the case of legal aid shows, is that this harms the most vulnerable Australians for whom the “lefty” Guardian purports to campaign.
