The Australian Problems of Today

Welcome to our article (94) The Australian problems of today (A. 11)

Dear readers, I have not written articles for a while; but today I have decided to write new articles about what is happening in Australia. Some of these articles will be like a diary, but my intention is that I want to point out what can be done to solve some problems, because in Australia today we have this problem about the drought, and other problems that are affecting our way of life, so, we need to talk about them to solve them.

Anyhow, we have not written anything since we wrote the elections’ articles, so, to keep the record straight we want to mention that the elections were won from the coalition, so, the government has not changed. I believe that the fear of paying more taxes, if the Labour Party had won government, has stopped the people voting Labour.

Anyhow, today there are still a lot of problems that need to be solved, and some of these problems must be solved from the Australian government. If you have followed us, you know that we have written articles about these problems, starting from the drought in Australia, that is destroying farming, as we know it. We have talked about this in our article, Farming Today Is Still a Risky Business, we have also talked about, the Australian Social Security, because it is failing to help the farmers, and other related articles that affects other people in a negative way. In the articles, we have said what we believe is wrong, and suggested what can be done to fix them, and we believe that the government can fix them, if the government tries hard enough to fix them. But so far, they have not done much; so, we are still waiting for this new elected government to do something. Meanwhile, we are writing some articles to say what we believe needs to be done.

Anyhow, we believe that, Australia Can Do Better, if the people that run the country, put the interest of the Australian people first, instead of bringing in heartless budgets, like Joe Hockey 2014 budget, which is still making life hard for the pensioners and the small property owners. So, let us see, what is happening in Australia today.

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Today in Australia nothing politically interesting is happening; except for the fact that the coalition is still in power, when everybody thought that they could not win. Anyhow, everything is still the same, it has not rained much and there is no rain coming soon, so, the farmers are still having a hard time, people hope and pray God hoping that that can help, but nothing is happening. These problems that affect the entire Australian economy need to be solved; even the farmers must be entitled to Social Security payment, when their farms cannot produce enough to live with. Like what we were trying to suggest in our article, The Australian Social Security Must Be Equal, anyhow, we hope that the government does something to help the farmers.

Today it seems to me that climatic changes that brings these droughts will continue to happen, so, we must think what can be done to overcome the drawback that these climatic changes bring. We know that this affects the entire world. But we have to think that Australia is the driest continent on earth, therefore, we must be ready before everybody else, we cannot wait and copy somebody else, because we will be the first to be affected most, so, we are forced to solve these problems ourselves.

Therefore, this question arises, what can be done to make farming more reliable? For instance, is there a way to collect enough water in some places, that can be used during the drought? We know that this must be a government initiative, since we are talking about Australia as a whole; so, not even the largest and well-organized farms can afford it. We know also that the government have already organized something like that, and they have problems running it, because they are running out of water. I believe that in the future these water problems can become worse, because of the global warming effects. So, the Australian government must make themselves ready for a better and larger scheme; they can learn from what they have now, to do better in the future.

So, these are what I am going to write in my future articles soon. You may call them, Australia views of an old man. Now, let me tell you who I am and what I have seen.

What I have seen in my life that can help make sense about what we see today.

Today I am an old man, so, I have seen a lot of things during my life that I can talk about: I have lived in Australia for 58 years, I have lived in Italy for over 20 years, during which I have worked in our family farm, then, I have served in the compulsory army service and when I finished I migrated to Australia.

When I came to Australia in the early sixties, I found that the standard of living was better than the standard of living that we had in Italy, and the standard of living we have today.

I was even surprised to see that the driest continent on earth, not only had enough water to drink, but they had enough water to water their gardens in their back yards, so, if you are organized you can do a lot more than you think it is possible to do.

But you must organize yourself to do dose things. Now because of these changes,

rainfalls will also change. So, I believe that we are going to have more ups and downs about rainfalls; therefore, we must start thinking what can be done to minimize the negative affect that they will bring. This is one of the subjects that I will be talking about in my future articles. I am also going to talk about financial support and other things. I hope that I can write my articles interesting enough for people to read them.

I believe I have said enough in this article; so, see you in our next article, where we are continuing to talk about the Australian problems and how we believe can be solved.

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