Regional Australians who are struggling with the increased cost of living | 7.30 

But it's the prospect of becoming a citizen someday they seek- australia is expensive but if you slog in exploitative conditions for long enough legally, you can then apply for citizenship and that's a very promising thing. Our country is still safer than most

Want to spend your life working and pay most of your income in taxes then become an Australian

@@Treemeadow Its becoming more violent and dangerous and poor but I'd argue that's a cost we're all willing to accept for more diversity. Sure, Back in the 80s and 90s it was safer and wealthier but it was less diverse.

He's my dad

A lot of the interviews were edited for a narrative. At the end of the day it is the persons choice if they buy healthy food vs junk and tobacco . Part that was cut out was that we sell the no sugar Coke $2 cheaper than regular coke but the locals just will not buy it.

That means they will have to do some work. Anyway coke and confectionary don't grow on trees. The Government should increase their dole and pension payments.

All people must work for the dole payments,So why army the young people putting effort into growing foods??? Because they are lazy it's that simple,if they in Asia they would starve ,no work no eat

They have had sit down money for so long it's now culture,just too lazy I'm sorry to say,grog has killed it off,

Also all the food has been hunted out in the bush,coastal,island communities with access to the sea do must better

@@gregsanford3848 You need to see the bigger picture and ask yourself why not much has been done in these communities and most of your answer will stem back to colonisation and the dispossession of land and the enforcement of banning culture practices. These including many other things have been the cause of why many communities are broken and struggling to repair themselves since colonisation.

Correct ! Unfortunately there is no one in this community that everyone respects . The feuding and fighting never stops here. Police and politicians won’t do anything .

You can’t be surprised aye, they get free money and spend it on stupid shit

We're sinking under inflation. I've never seen non-addict homeless tent camps in *australia* until the last year. They're common in the states. But never thought I'd see Australia families with incomes forced into tents

​@Treemeadow I'm very sorry you're dealing with that. It's honestly not much better in the USA. It depends on where you're located. SO many people colle t off the government that are perfectly able to work, it's ridiculous! I'm in upstate NY. I lucked out...after working minimum wage jobs in my mid teens into my 20s, I found a job in the paper with my fiance at the time for exterior painters (houses) it's booming in the summer but lags in the winter. After he decided he didn't want to work and had me doing everything on the job, we went our separate ways and the company owner's family took a liking to me and started hiring me and my Dad to do all kinds of odd jobs as well as what I was already doing when my ex left. My Dad is in his mid 60s but can definitely work circles around me and the younger guys 😂 it works for us right now, and has been since 2011. In the summer he does a lot of clean outs and hauling stuff away with his pickup, and I'm in the sun painting almost non stop, going up and down ladders, carrying VERY top heavy ladders around....ugh... 😅 the reason I have to stay in the sun all day is because the sunny sides of the house are best to work with for as long as possible, as the paint dries much faster! Anyway, I could've easily took up residence with one of my parents like my ex did, but NO WAY! I'm a grown single woman and would NEVER inconvenience anyone by freeloaders like so, SO many other people my age do. Shameful really! Anyway, sorry for the novel. Bottom line- I was lucky enough to find the right place at the right time...with the WRONG person (but hey-that only gave me more work AND my Dad so it's HIS LOSS!) 😊 it's not easy work but it's great exercise, keeps me productive, and I love helping my boss's family, plus my Dad gets work. There are a TON of drug dealers in the more urban area, closee to Albany, that drive up to DSS office with expensive vehicles and rims, gold chains etc.. meanwhile older veterans are homeless, there's lots of drug abuse with nothing more than a methadone maintenance program to keep them "legally doped" vigils all over the Troy area (which is about 5 minutes away from albany) with candles memorializing women, children and men that have been killed in drive by shootings. Ugh...😕 I am grateful to have my own 3 bedroom apartment right next to a decent suburban area, which I had help getting into via the landlords working with me with the 1st month's rent because I had great references and knew someone in the building ... all just GOOD LUCK! If anyone had made it this far-thank you for reading, and I wish you all the best luck that I have had so far ❤

It's run by Wirrimanu Aboriginal Corporation that has a board of elected indigenous residents. Nothing would change here if the referendum passes.

BIG NO to the voice.

The voice is useless, we can do more meaningful things without the voice.

The young men don't care

We sell sugar free coke for $2 less than regular coke but the locals will not buy it. Not giving people a choice on what they can spend there money on is not the answer . Generational education and proper parenting will help , unfortunately it is in short supply in this community.

You cannot grow anything in that soil....also given Balgo is in the desert there is not alot of rain

Balgo, Kimberley region of Western Australia. Close to the Tanami desert

You are. 100% correct . There is no industry out here , you can’t grow anything in the soil , everyone is on welfare and their children will do the same. It is very sad

Just too lazy now

Maybe look at the people controlling the money,I bet they do very very well indeed

We price mark the no sugar variant at $4.40 but they still by the regular version. Locals here are not price sensitive because they have never worked for their money.

Depends the sort of coke it is...

That's my dad

Perhaps you could come out and help ?

I feel sad for them.

That's a great question, where is the rice??????? It's back in Darwin

The shops ripped them blind

Too lazy young men want beer pot and stolen tojo,s

Army???? Here's an idea,use the young men instead,

@@gregsanford3848 I agree, but they won't, that's why I stated maintaining them will be the real issue because the army would be handing the farms over to the locals and it'll likely go poorly after that.

Landlords and insecure housing make growing food hard Remote communities need support to start biodynamic farming

@@Treemeadow I agree, the real issue, as stated, is maintaining them. A town like this isn't already trying to create a farm project like this which is worrying, why invest tax dollars into a doomed project if they are just going to fail to maintain it?

Your right mate , the truth is these communities are not sustainable only being propped up by our tax dollars. There is no employment out here .everyone is on welfare like their parents before them and like their children will be.

I'm sure that some do, but its not exactly the best condditions in the soil for growing crops

Maybe we all should be growing our own veg

We stole all the prime farm land btw, can't grow much in the desert

Is the land arable?

There are native edible plants adapted to the arid environment. But a lot of the time they are slow growing and can take a long time to start producing fruit. In the video they are cooking a brush turkey making damper which is source from the environment. There is a book by the csiro about most promising native plants that could be grown on a larger scale for domestic use and possibly exported but I forgot what the name of it is.

Before the the howard governments intervention there were jobs and full time jobs at that but then comes John Howard the first thing he does is abolish CDEP if you dont know what CDEP is Google it now there is only contract work and they mostly come from Mt Isa

If you're talking about the $400 she mentioned, then they also said that she sells art. If that's putting her over the income threshold, then she would get less from the pension than someone without an income, but more money overall. Otherwise the pension supplement, as well as remote area living allowance, would make it more than being unemployed in the city.

Unless you know for sure how much she got for her paintings you don't really know

No way! The rest of it goes on ganga and playing cards.😂

not to forget your honey soy sauce coming from china -even further

Yes there is.

@@mathewrisos8193 no there isn't

​@@potapotapotapotapotapota well they would have to apply for housing and wait several years before they could get moved into cities

@@danielsonn3046 I don't think you realise. There is like nothing else around their little neighbourhood for almost a thousand kilometres. You have to fly in to get there. So they are complaining about something that is literally impossible to fix. I know housing is expensive in the cities, but these people are expecting to live a city kind of life with none of the infrastructure to allow them to. They only have two choices - either accept their life and the consequences of living in the middle of nowhere or move closer to civilization. To put it in perspective, the amount of empty space they have surrounding them is like the entirety of Sweden (land in km^2). They must be just about the most remote community in all of Australia if not the entire world.

How is that even related? I trust you have seen who rejected the subsidy in the video? Is Scott Morrison an immigrant? Well, I agree if you say, from a native Australian point of view, all white people are technically immigrants. Food prices are mainly fuelled by the inflation of energy, whereas energy is being controlled by those few big companies -- non of them is owned by an immigrant.

Are the immigrants causing your people to drink, fight and bash each other up? Do immigrants stop you going to school and getting an education and a career? Stop believing your problems are caused by the government or other outside forces. It is your job to improve yourself.

You have to help yourself

Have you ever been here ?

Xenophobic

Bwahahaha yeah gorgeous bunch

No they don't they get the same Centrelink payment rate as everyone else