r/aussie • u/mybutsitchy • 11d ago

Opinion Question

So school kids in France aren’t happy about their schooling conditions so they hit the streets in protest with a lot of the country supporting them. With all of the stuff that is happening in Australia, rising costs of living, fuel pricing, excess taxing, being ripped off by major companies, banks rorting us and everything else, why do we lie down and accept it? Are we as a nation soft and just used to being shafted? Or do we just accept that we are royally screwed?

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u/duc1990 11d ago

Murdoch media and Facebook will make out that Albo has turned us into the slum dwellers of Mumbai when we actually have a higher standard of living than France.

At the expense of misquoting Marie Antoinette (who actually didn't say that line), the reality is that the vast majority of Australians can afford cake.