Albo’s violent crime wave

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When a population is destabilised via an event like COVID, political manipulation becomes a real danger as the polity loses its bearings.

That is what we are living through now as the Albanese Government crushes living standards for its corporate mates.

But cracks appear in the fake, shiny facade, and we may be beginning to see one such area in a new violent crime wave.

Since Albo shocked Australian living standards lower, violent crime has surged in NSW:

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And in Victoria:

Some might say it is just a post-COVID normalisation of crime trends, and it is noteworthy to point out that violent crime per capita has been down over the last decade until the recent Albo spike:

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However, with the population having grown 40% over twenty years, the absolute number of incidences is at record highs in NSW.

Albo doesn’t care:

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The federal government’s program to fund 500 frontline family and domestic violence workers continues to come under fire after it was revealed only 63 workers had been employed.

In October 2022, the government announced women’s safety as a national priority allocating almost $170m over four years to recruit 500 new frontline service and community workers in the family and domestic violence sector.

But as of June 2024, it was revealed 63 frontline workers have been employed across Australia under the program.

The high likelihood is that Albo’s living standards collapse will deliver more violent crime for the denizens of Hellbourne and Shitney in due course.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.