There's a federal election coming up in Australia. There's some topics in 2025 that are very important for Australia's future that I'm not hearing much about in this election campaign.

Right to repair

A huge trend in the modern world is the enshittification of just about everything.

Something that's especially noticeable is that so many products these days just don't last all that long. But it gets worse, many of these products can't really be repaired.

Policies about a "right to repair" have been very much absent from the political discussion in the lead up to the election.

Monetary policy

Australia has faced a LOT of inflation in the last few years due to super loose monetary policy.

There's an insane amount of propaganda and outright gaslighting going on in the financial and political media about this particular topic.

However anyone who has their eyes open and is noticing things, will quickly notice that the purchasing power of each Australian dollar has dropped rather dramatically over the last 10 years.

This is a very significant problem as it is one of the huge drivers of the economic collapse that's going on here combined with also being a driver of increased wealth inequality. I'm yet to hear any sort of policy being proposed that will actually fix this problem. This is a pity because this is a serious problem that's causing Australia to get considerably weaker and more impoverished, and is directly contributing to all manner of societal problems.

ICAC

For a few election cycles we heard many claim to be in support of a Federal Independent Commission Against Corruption. This of course has proceeded to not happen after a number of elections, but this time around I'm not hearing much about the topic at all.

This is a pity because the populace is starting to increasingly view Australia as a corrupt nation, and unfortunately that in itself is a bad thing. But the other issue is that there are some sectors of the economy in Australia that are getting more corrupt too, so its not as though these perceptions are baseless. See the section below about the dropping quality of new builds for an example of a sector the public is starting to see as being more corrupt as each year goes on.

Australia's ability to defend itself against natural disaster risks

Back in 2019-2020 we had catastrophic bushfires.

Then in 2020 we had a pandemic with such an astoundingly terrible response that everyone pretty much forgot about the bushfire season. What followed was 2 exceedingly wet summers where there was minimal fire activity.

A few years is of course nothing in the natural cycles of the world but its a long time in Australian federal politics, long enough for many to completely forget about the growing risks of bushfires.

Effectively a few years appear to have been mostly squandered here. Instead of investing in infrastructure here it seems not much was done due to a lack of attention on the issue.

Demographics collapse

There's a major issue in Australia with the birth rate dropping considerably. This means that effectively given some more time the population of Australia will collapse.

There's some very bandaid solutions being proposed where immigration is being proposed as a way to keep the population growing. The issue though is that the immigrants are coming into a country and society that's adverse to creating families so the same problems start popping up all over again. All the while there's a lot of other downsides of this policy including an increasing median population age.

The housing build quality crisis

A lot of new builds are of a greatly reduced quality but are not at a reduced price. The sorts of houses that are passing building inspections but are going to fall apart in just a few years seems to be a large problem that's not being talked about all that much in the political arena.

For examples of the depth of the problem see: https://www.youtube.com/@Siteinspections