In case anyone is interested or has questions about petitions.

Here’s page for our govt petition procedures: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Petitions

Here’s Change.org: https://www.change.org/petition-guides/create-a-petition

This may not be the case to petitions presented to the Senate but I could be wrong.

This is just a guess. Perhaps they chose change.org because they are likely to get more signatories than on a govt petition site.

Thank you for that. Please share the petition. Let’s get this debated in parliament.

Could you cross-post this to Aussie Enviro please? We’ve been discussing night sky issues.

Could you cross-post this on AussieEnviro please. Important issue.

Could you cross post this great contribution with Aussie Enviro please?

Btw, this website might come in handy at some point: https://www.aussiebee.com.au/

Theres so many options to fix the current, artificially created crisis.> I agree with you.

As to your question re housing and the effect of oil price rising, I think you answered it when you mentioned supply chains. Imo, construction, like all business, will be affected by a rise in petrol costs e.g. obtaining materials, tools, machinery from overseas, local travel and freight costs. All will be passed on to buyers so I imagine that it will become even more expensive to buy a new home unless govt helps out. In addition, the cost of kitting out a home will be more expensive as all appliances, imported furniture and miscellaneous items will also rise in price. These old men and their wars and power mongering are hurting young people in so many ways. No wonder so many don’t want to have children.

Sorry if it sounded like I’m blaming refugees. I agree with everything you say. But if incoming numbers increase significantly (and we should definitely welcome them as our govt has sat by as the situation has become drastic in some parts of the ME) and we are still not catching up with the housing construction (and the expense to build growing because of oil price volatility), the problem will become worse. Imo, our govt should increase support for well-made prefabricated homes which are now much better quality than they used to be and perhaps even start a govt-owned prefabrication enterprise for social and affordable housing at scale, which would also provide manufacturing and related jobs.

If the number of refugees rises significantly as it is already happening it will have an effect in time, in my view. It is just my opinion. If our governments are going to support the bombing of populations and the consequent spread of destruction over the whole ME region, it will be (and should be) our humanitarian duty to take more refugees. I hope they are planning for this and for climate change refugees from our Pacific region.

The same sort of fear is present in the regional area where I live, where there seems to be a mind virus against renewable energy.

And who knows what will happen with the current world instability as it affects oil prices (and so the price of just about everything else), and as the number of refugees rises, and if we enter into the war. 😭

Perhaps but I don’ know if they’d be using these figures. I put it up to show how we’re doing compared to the rest of the world.

You can subscribe to Visual Capitalist and get this type of visual info regularly. I don’t know how accurate they are but they give an all-over picture which is useful. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-food-inflation-will-hit-hardest-in-2026/