Raiding Super And Slashing Immigration: Inside One Nation's Plan To Give Us The Recession We Richly Deserve

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact

One Nation has unveiled a cost-of-living plan this week allowing Australians to pay today's landlord with tomorrow's dentures.

For three years, workers could redirect a quarter of their compulsory super contributions into their pay. On an $80,000 salary, that’s roughly $2,400 annually, or $7,200 over three years, plus the investment returns their elderly selves can now earn by collecting cans. Your boss pays nothing extra. Your landlord gets paid. Seventy-year-old you can just work it out.

The party also wants 750,000 fewer temporary migrants over three years, including steep cuts to international students.

This should ease housing demand while freeing business owners from the exhausting burden of having customers and staff. Universities can become places of learning instead of cash pigs for banks, governments and the institutions themselves. Which means if you are underprivileged and don't get a very good HSC, sorry mate, you are a fruit picker now. No university for you, they just for private school wankers and poor kids with a bit of go about them. Get a trade, be a tradie in a sea of tradies. If you won't fix the shitters for a grand, some other cunt will do it for half. Restaurants can finally achieve the Australian dream of being closed Sunday-Thursday.

It’s a recession starter kit.

Skilled workers remain welcome, although the proposed allocation for their families is zero. Come here alone and pay tax then fuck off when you start needing to use public services. An overseas nurse can care for your mother, provided she resigns from being one herself. Also, her own mother can just work it out, too.

Fortunately, Pauline Hanson and Saint Barnabus have found accommodation at Gina Rinehart’s ugly $20 million Brisbane mansion. Hanson acknowledges discussing policy with Rinehart but says the billionaire doesn’t influence it. She's just a good sounding board, like a sister that hates your husband.

Ordinary Australians get no invitations to nowhere, but can raid their retirement contributions. It’s an elegant workers’ policy. Employers contribute nothing extra, landlords collect promptly and workers get to finance their own relief.

If retirement becomes unaffordable, it's someone else's problem.

More to come.