Thank you K Rudd for acknowleding there is a homelessness crisis currently. How do other people feel?

Question

I have been working with disadvantaged young people for years and rarely do you get any acknowledgement that there is a problem.
Many of the young people I work with cannot even hold down a job to help get themselves out of the cycle due to having to move as accommodation isn't for very long due to demand. Other reasons are; being so transient due to few accommodation places, to expensive, abused, sexually abused, emotionally abused, parents use drugs n alcohol and the list goes on.
Many more have undiagnosed and diagnosed mental health issues. With little parental support there is a bleak future for many!!
Unfortunately Howard looks through Liberal-rose-coloured-glasses where everything is fine and there is no social problems.I am so pleased that one of our Leaders has acknowledged there is a problem and has gone some way to fixing this! Unfortunately the ones who blame the individual or don't believe there is a problem, aren't homeless!

How do people feel about this?

John S. While I understand your answer I feel that if it comes down to legal ethics then Rudd is still miles in front due to the following Howard Government's dealings such as: the AWB scandal, Children Overboard and Workchoices.

Sorry but Rudd also wins the moral debate! He didn't pay Saddam Hussien millions to buy weapons that are now being used to kill our soldiers unlike Howard's government!!

massive assumption 1080...can see why you are a Liberal, firing massive statement with absolutely no foundation!!

You cannot say with any evidence that Rudd would have done thte same. This is a comment from some one who hates Labor no matter what. Love a closed mind!!

Answer 1

It'll pass. Obviously it's just a way of sweetening the Australian people for votes.

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Quote "He didn't pay Saddam Hussien millions to buy weapons that are now being used to kill our soldiers unlike Howard's government!!"

Well of course not! Rudd wasn't in power then was he? Even if he was, he would have probably done the same!

Answer 2

I total agree with with you here, as at times I have been in such a situation years ago, and there is not much help with the Government back then, at least Kevin Rudd has noticed it more than Howard, and is stepping up to the fact that there are people who are homeless, and that Howard has done nothing during his 11 years of being in government, Well Howard at least has been put on notice because of what Kevin Rudd is anouncing about the plight of the homless.

Answer 3

Yeah its great he's acknowledged it as a problem. But what's he going to do about it!!! Its all well and good to appeal to good causes that will gain political points, but i really have my doubts as to whether he will actually do anything to fix the problem. Those problems you mentioned are systemic issues that go beyond what one politician thinks he can do. I still remember Bob Hawke's promise that there would be no Australian child living in poverty by...(I cant remember the date) But it was an extremely foolish statement, even by Hawke's standards. I think the Howard government has had a pretty woeful record on social-disadvantage issues in general, his government's policies seem largely aimed at creating social-disadvantage, but i wouldn't be so optimistic as to take Rudd's comments at face value. I would hold my judgement until I actually saw a comprehensive plan from labor that outlined how they were going to tackle the problem, and just as importantanly, how much they are prepared to invest financially in achieving solutions. I really have my doubts, because I do not trust what politicains say, (especially around election time). I am more interested in actions.

Answer 4

So we now have John S- Howard .
I didn't even get through 10 lines before my eyes blew out.

Anything to help these disadvantaged people the better.
I deal with the homeless and disadvantaged every day.
The ED at my hospital is overloaded with people who have nowhere else to turn to.
Any thing we can do to stop this insidious reflection of a failing society, the better.

Answer 5

My only complaint is that $150 million over 5 years is a drop in the ocean, compared to the massiveness of the problem of homelessness, and to the size of the surplus, and to the amount we are spending on the Iraq war....

Answer 6

I agree with all you said. Unfortunately the LIberals want a certain number of people homeless and depsrate becuase it keeps hte rest of us anxious. A pointer to decision time on Voting Day

Answer 7

Yes that is great but mental health also needs a lot more funding because a lot of these people end up homeless because of they didn't get the help they needed in the first place.

Answer 8

$150 million is a lot of money to buy about 600 votes. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

Answer 9

If you only could see the misery (material and human) that is Miami you would think that Haiti is Beverly Hills

Answer 10

its great, but i still think Keven shouldn't have given all that money to the pensioners.