The last big research essay I did at Melbourne Uni was on housing commission blocks. This was partly because I was one of the few student socialists who had experienced poverty involuntarily and partly because there was a shortcut through one of them to my pot dealer’s house and I needed to know if it was safe or not.
In fact the one thing that has stayed with me more than anything else was a number of photographs he unearthed proving that the working-class families of Depression-era Fitzroy and Flemington were in fact uncommonly decent – even as their picture was being taken to demonstrate how desperate they were.
It was literally a sledgehammer approach. Block after block of old workers’ cottages – which, in the ultimate irony, would later be highly sought after by the inner-city gentry – were demolished and replaced with these towering Stalinist-style monoliths. Still, even the most pessimistic progressive would have been hard-pressed to predict that some half a century later a Labor state government would find a way to make them even more unbearable.Daniel Andrews’ decision to lock public housing residents in their meagre flats is extraordinary and unprecedented but to be fair these are extraordinary and unprecedented times.
The first and most obvious is why a second spike of COVID-19 has emerged only in the one state that was more hard line than any other in its restrictions.Source:News Corp Australia Nothing so encourages disrespect and disobedience than the perception of unfairness or double standards, a perception that certainly wasn’t helped by the Victorian Deputy Chief Health Officer’s bizarre and idiotic tweet likening the coronavirus to Captain Cook.
And then there is the question of how a supermarket worker who tested positive for coronavirus was released from quarantine and allowed to return to NSW without being tested again.
Joe_Hildebrand 😂 This blind, unthinking defence of Andrews is looking particularly pathetic this morning.
Joe_Hildebrand Listen; WE the most of Australia want to know WHY aren’t you talking about the death rate NOT the increase in positive cases!! COME ON do the real News FFS
michaelobrienmp Joe_Hildebrand Those continuing to defend & who without question to follow andrews & attack those seeking answers & to hold him accountable, knowing full well the damage that has been & is being caused by the HQ failures are as bad as he is & should be ashamed of them selves resignDanAndrews
Joe_Hildebrand He needs to go
Joe_Hildebrand Oh seriously? It is all the premiers fault? Do why no pile on by newscorp on Gladys over the Ruby Princess?
michaelobrienmp Joe_Hildebrand Again stop spreading misinformation and lies michaelobrienmp. Don't be the problem. Support your premier and get over politicizing the pandemic.
Joe_Hildebrand Every govt in Australia are corrupted, compromised, greedy pocket liners. NEVER TO BE TRUSTED. AustralianGovt NoConfidence
Joe_Hildebrand Excellent article. Thank you
Joe_Hildebrand Lack of brain power & hunger 4 liberty & freedom is ruining Australia. UR a continent of 25.5M & have only 9726 CONFIRMED Cases & 108 deaths. Y’all stomp down nutters who put up w/abject tyranny 4 NOTHING! Ponderous! 🙄🇦🇺🦠😷
Joe_Hildebrand Hydroxychloroquine works. Pass the word!
Joe_Hildebrand Was unavoidable - Covid loves a near banana-republic state like VIC, led by an incompetent propagandist like our DictatorDan who persists with an ideologically driven and arrogant insistence that state control is so effective that it doesn’t require external advice.
Joe_Hildebrand Yes, and that was NSW whe they allowed Ruby Princess to dock and discharge passengers without health checks even though they were aware of Covid19 cases on board.
Joe_Hildebrand I’m not even reading this shit. Look in yr own backyard in Syd. No social distancing, no one taking precautions. Syd is next and predictably you’ll blame it on Vic.
Joe_Hildebrand Joe_Hildebrand you always come up with the best lines👍: The road to hell might be paved with good intentions but it is almost always sealed with hypocrisy. Love it. You must have been a pickup artist in high school and Uni.😁
michaelobrienmp Joe_Hildebrand Daniel.... For God sake..... Please RESIGN tomorrow when you get in to your office for the sake of all Victorians!!! ScottMorrisonMP GladysB VictorianCHO
michaelobrienmp Joe_Hildebrand Because DanielAndrewsMP is an IDIOT who doesn't know what he is doing!!! And he still does NOT want to STEP-DOWN!!! 👎👎👎👎👎 So UNFAIR FOR ALL VICTORIANS!!! ScottMorrisonMP GladysB VictorianCHO
Joe_Hildebrand Ruby Princess happened over one weekend in March, Victorian quarantine debacle has been hidden by Dan Andrews for over 3 months. Cedar Meats was linked to hotel security on April 2nd.
Joe_Hildebrand Department of Jobs running quarantine in Victoria, not Dept of Health. Has Dan Andrews written all over it.
Joe_Hildebrand IStandWithDan IStandWithDan IStandWithDan IStandWithDan
Joe_Hildebrand We all have it - COVID-19 is “genetic material” it’s NOT a virus - that’s why they can manipulate the numbers when need be - COVID is about “control” & bringing in “Trojan horse” vaccines from the loving Bill Gates & the rest of the Globalist scum- Andrews is TREASONOUS
Joe_Hildebrand i believe it is the number of tests conducted.even with the slightest % of infection,the more you test,the more you will find. the other is the failure to quarantine and isolate properly. to solve a problem you need identify the problem.lockdown is a delay, not a solution.
Joe_Hildebrand Well said Joe. Now watch the communist bots come after you for daring to suggest DictatorDan stuffed up once again
Joe_Hildebrand Only one state at the moment. This isn’t over... Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Joe_Hildebrand Absolutely hard hitting pointers there.. can’t agree more while also worry how will this all become less worrisome.. it’s actually getting much too much to handle , the viral virus and all of it
Joe_Hildebrand Self inflicted wound by trying to eliminate the virus .Deaths happen in every viral pandemic . It is accepted . The call was to flatten the curve . Germany now has a situation where life is open throughout the country and borders open .Australia ,destroyed by health bureaucrats.
Joe_Hildebrand Self inflicted wound by trying to eliminate the virus . Deaths happen in every viral pandemic . It is accepted . The call was to flatten the curve . Germany now had a situation were life is open throughout the country and borders open .Australia ,destroyed by health bureaucrats.
Joe_Hildebrand The victim mentality gets you no where. While Andrew’s was ridiculing other states he allowed his own state become the epidemic.
Joe_Hildebrand Resign Andrews you are now a disgrace to the entire nation and threaten us all.
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Joe_Hildebrand A Murdoch lackey bemoaning the targeting of poor people. Hypocrite.
Joe_Hildebrand Threatens the entire nation? Pfft! Don’t be a drama queen Joe 🙄
Joe_Hildebrand Lock down Sydney suburbs with new cases NOW!!!!
Joe_Hildebrand Come on Joe_Hildebrand people died in most states as a direct consequence of the Ruby Princess. What about less writing pieces but making them better quality?
Joe_Hildebrand It wouldn’t have to threaten the whole of Australia if the Queensland premier hadn’t gone weak at the knees and opened the border. Talk about bad timing. AnnastaciaMP
Joe_Hildebrand 100% true.
Joe_Hildebrand Even by Joe's standards that is a completely incoherent grab bag of self-undermining arguments. I was waiting to hear about what was done differently in Victoria. It turns out the only thing was that we locked down harder, and therefore cannot be causal with more cases springst
Joe_Hildebrand Joe,armchair critics, always know better. If you can go for it. If not:- keep your silence !!!
Joe_Hildebrand Joe nails it. AGAIN. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Joe_Hildebrand Moronic premier didn’t help
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Joe_Hildebrand We fall asleep at the wheel. Things go totally pear shape (what did you expect?). Then we are seen to be working our butt off. People hail us as the Hero! auspol
Joe_Hildebrand So will the horny security guard who shagged his way through quarantined overseas travellers while moonlighting as an Uber driver be charged and jailed DanielAndrewsMP ? springst auspol COVID19Vic
Joe_Hildebrand “Incredibly, some diehard ideologues still blame the lifting of restrictions, which is so deeply irrational it can only be born of the most base-level rote thinking. “ Great writing.
Joe_Hildebrand We can only hope that the murdoch media implodes under the weight of its own B.S....
Joe_Hildebrand And doing it well no thanks to the sniping, destructive liberal opposition & mangy RW propagandists in the media.
Joe_Hildebrand Agree, people aren't going to take a government's hardline stance seriously when it is dirtied by hypocrisy.
michaelobrienmp Joe_Hildebrand A lot of young people tell me they really do not take any notice what comes out of NewsCorp and from the other two noisy galahs. They source other news/social media to get the truth.
Joe_Hildebrand Social media warriors could shed light on how to control this pandemic Who was flouting Dan’s advice- It’s a problem where every citizen has to play a part otherwise this virus will linger on and on! Other states could have outbreaks sooner or later.
Joe_Hildebrand Pro-Liberal B..l..sh..t! Everyone slammed him for being too strict now they are slamming him for not being strict enough.... He seems to be getting little support from his population. The spread is no this fault!
Joe_Hildebrand How important is leadership in such a situation
Joe_Hildebrand These quiet digs at the BLM protests are pure hypocrisy and show poor journalism. Every state had a protest and no other state had an outbreak. The BLM protests had nothing to do with it. This bullshit 'complacency' arguments is pure right -wing bullshit.
Joe_Hildebrand Every state HAS to go through crisis, it’s just the matter of time when.
Joe_Hildebrand Rupert Goebbels News Corp, fabricated garbage.. Specialising in hindsight...
Joe_Hildebrand More pure garbage and 'me me me' coming out of SimpleJoe Hildebrand, useful idiot to Murdoch and the Liberal Party.
Joe_Hildebrand It was the ruby princess that threatened the nation. It is still causing havoc.
Joe_Hildebrand What a sensationalist
Joe_Hildebrand Ruby princess early very bad mistake
Joe_Hildebrand OK,Chinctoria
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Joe_Hildebrand Well done Joe. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” The lockdown of the people in the towers is an overreach of power that all Aussies, no matter their political leaning, should speak out against!
Joe_Hildebrand Victorian govt massive mismanagement of large virus clusters like cedar meats, al-taqwa + residential towers and many others and the massive debarcle that is hotel quarantine, which should a royal commission in itself. Yet zero accountability from Daniel Andrews. auspol theage
Joe_Hildebrand I design and build compact affordable rental housing apartments a fraction of the size of the aforementioned apartments, yet have managed to make them Covid safe. Combining a daily cleaning routine, with sanitiser stations and Retrofitting a few devices & appliances, it works.
Joe_Hildebrand Timing is everything ...
Joe_Hildebrand Hildebrand... Latin for 'who gives a fuck what he thinks'.
Joe_Hildebrand Ruby Princess... caused 25% of all cases at one stage. Short memory there dude
Joe_Hildebrand ... and only one state made its mistakes four months into their pandemic response, whilst all other states made their mistakes in the early days when they were still learning. auspol springst COVID19Aus
Joe_Hildebrand Everyone is a bloody expert. If you think you can do better go into politics and have a crack.
Joe_Hildebrand China Dan needs to resign along with his health minister and a few others. Utter incompetence from the Vic government. Even worse than the Ruby Princess debacle. Not good enough.
Joe_Hildebrand Ruby Princess
Joe_Hildebrand This was a plandemic. Australia took its advice from the corrupt United Nations. Covid-19 is a hoax on a grand scale.
Joe_Hildebrand NSW AND VICTORIA MADE MISTAKES.. NO OTHER STATE OR TERRITORY HAS.
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