There is a first time for everything, and today I agree with Tim Gurner, Australia’s most hated man:
Developer Tim Gurner says the Victorian government’s stamp duty cuts are a strong start to get the property market moving again, but warned the effort is doomed to fail unless Melbourne’s reputation as a safe place to invest is restored after years of being pummelled by lockdowns, high taxes and debt.
“The strong consensus in other states is that Victoria is broke, it’s cold, and your property prices don’t go up,” Mr Gurner told The Australian Financial Review.
The long COVID-19 lockdowns under former premier Daniel Andrews had caused “incredible damage … to the brand of Melbourne” and the state government had been in disarray ever since, with a “massive debt problem” that gave property investors no reason for confidence.
Tim is not a people person so let me clarify that.
Dan Andrews did incredible damage to Melbourne. Period. It’s not a branding issue.
Hellbournians are broken. They have Stockholm Syndrome with the great lockdown party still in power.
The dictator has been knighted and given the greatest gaslighting sinecure imaginable in chairing a mental health outfit.
He is Scarecrow, Dr Jonathan Crane in charge of Arkham Asylum.
With nowhere else to put it, Hellbournians take their anger out on each other. Violence is everywhere. Gangs are rife.
Criminal incidents are at record highs, though why the statistics are not much higher is a mystery to me.
Perhaps the police are going easy on a broken population.
Helllboure is a nasty, bleak, crush-loaded dystopia with outer suburbs like ruined mini-states of India where migrants build houses for migrants in an endless hellscape.
It is the living and breathing embodiment of Australia’s crashing living standards in terms of debauched governance, economic hollowing out, vested interest greed, cultural debasement, bad weather, and mental breakdown.
If you can, get out. And do not come!
I fear it will never recover.
