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Bonus: How living in Australia Became Impossible

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Inflation, or the rising costs of living, are putting thousands of Aussies under immense financial hardship, making it impossible for many to make ends meet. These financial challenges affecting the community are also adding to the immense strain being faced by community services and assistance providers, who are struggling in their efforts to try and help individuals and families facing financial hardship and other effects and consequences of inflation. Want to travel with me? Check out the links below Travel to Greece with me ⁠here⁠ Travel to Thailand with me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our sister podcast the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mystery of Everything⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Coffee Collab With The Lore Lodge ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠COFFEE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Submit your relatives on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.6

Hey folks, get ready for a new season of blowback coming Monday, September 22nd.

0:10.0

This time around, we're covering the Cold War Showdown in Africa.

0:14.5

When apartheid South Africa invades the newly independent nation of Angola,

0:19.2

revolutionary Cuba sends its own army to defend its African ally, while the United States

0:24.9

backs a warlord whose only goal is power.

0:28.2

Subscribe now at blowback.com. Show and get the entire season when it drops.

0:32.6

Add free. Blowback.com.

0:35.5

My friends, Australia isn't deep didgeridoo, which do in this case is a, is a pun for

0:41.0

crap because it's in trouble and then simultaneously that didgeridoo is a musical instrument.

0:46.5

Don't dislike this video within the first five seconds, please.

0:49.1

Yes, the Commonwealth currently suffers from one of the worst housing shortages the modern

0:52.4

world has ever seen.

0:53.9

This problem includes rates of homeownership that have taken a nose dive, rental vacancies

0:58.1

that are rarer than snow in the outback, housing costs that seem almost inhumane, and a rising

1:03.0

homelessness rate that feels more, well, LA than Adelaide.

1:07.4

Early at this point, the land down under seems more like someone who just got told,

1:15.8

that's not a knife, this is a knife, and then the knife is pointed right at them. Like most problems in history, though, this one can't be blamed on one simple reason. Instead, it's

1:20.5

wrapped in layers of political gridlock, laws that set the stage for the situation to occur in

1:25.0

the first place, and even some good old-fashioned racial

1:28.3

tension. Yeah, this isn't going to get spicy. But, of course, as always, before it is that we

1:33.1

cross the hemispheres to hear about homeless fears, we need to surf backwards down the

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