During the 1970s, Australia experienced a mining boom, which resulted in a large volume of employment opportunities. As the existed laborforce was not sufficient to absorb employment opportunities, the government abolished WHITE AUSTRALIAN policy and adapted liberal migration policy allowing migrants from Non English Speaking countries based on a point system for skills and education. In the meantime, Australian governments under the leaderships of Mr Whitlam, Fraser, Hawk and Keating many socio economic reforms were taken place with a view to sharing or redistributing the advantages of mining boom. The social and philosophical thinking of Mr Barry Jones of Labour party contributed to redistribution of wealth through social benefits such education supports, unemployment benefits, sole parent benefits and many others.
However, mining boom in 1970s ended in late 1980s creating serious economic problems. Two visible economic disadvantages of mining boom were artificially increase in the foreign value of Australian dollar and increase in underline inflation rate resulted in the rise of interest rate to 17.5%. The increase in migrant intake without considering the immediate impact when the economy was weak increased the unemployment to 12%. The economic growth in 1990 was negative due to less productivity in public and private sector companies. The government encouraged micro economic reforms and privatization of public enterprises to payoff government debts and to generate efficiency in individual firms in different industry. Massive retrenchment in public and private sector directed retraining the workforce. Many migrants embarked to the country from Asian countries tremendously suffered without jobs and many people lost their houses without an ability pay loans. 作者: 1972240 时间: 15-7-2013 22:21
＂其实很多人都忽略了，不管经济好不好，绝大多数人都还钱越赚越多的，也就是越来越有钱的。可支配的收入正常来说也都是递增的。＂
最让人觉得纠结的倒是inner city的。好地段，离市中心1.2KM。公寓但是是个2层的全新复式，109平米不小了。买的末末期楼花。2个月就交房了，没什么赚头。看中就是觉得特别，200多户的project，只有2套这样的，还有前期的100多套直接改service公寓了。08年8月买的，经济危机前高点的高点。到现在小小的涨了一点点吧，显然不合适。最要命的是物业贵，一年6k2(设施倒是真好)。还不算完，开发商后来破产了，整个project有渗水的问题（不是漏水，我也不是学土木的，好像是基建里有一部分有问题。）其实跟我们家屁大关系没有，渗水的地方隐约记得都不是我们片楼。打官司跟开放商肯定能赢，但是没意义，因为公司没有了，赢了也没钱赔。最后投票300户自己集资修吧，找报价就讨论的大半年，最后好像选了个2.5m的单。按面积摊，每户平均差不多1w （on top of BC），结果去年的物业直线飙升到1w2。物业管理也算合情合理，楼下还有好几十个车位也拍卖了，也放在pool里（户主可以优先买车位，便宜个10%吧，但是一个车位要6w-8w还要看位置），摊上这个，只能认倒霉。好在已经过去了。租客也不错从08年9月初租到现在没断过，租金520/w，但是实际上自己掏腰包还是很多，一个月亏1K都算少的。也只能退税用目前。（说道这个老外的物业也可以扯淡下，确实是个业内的知名物业公司，收费贵但是服务负责。户主的meeting基本是1个月一次（我们一次也没去过），整个物业的房产预期市场调查，经济状况，还有7788的300户的花边新闻+投诉，大大小小mail不断一周都有1封，有些是很有意思的案子。）
PS. 虽然还不算老，但已过而立。深知赚钱的艰辛。这辈子唯一错过发财的机会就是经济危机时的股票。我再买第二套房子的时候，手上有点现金打算买好房好车，帮我做贷款的是个很好的金融业的哥们，力劝我别急着买房买车，哪怕光买房不买车也行。最后没听.....不是学金融的，从来没接触过股票，没那个胆量。他推荐我拿10-20w，他拿10-20w到银行贷1人1m-2m出来炒澳股（看你想玩多大的）......他推荐的股票是RIO TINTO 那个时候清晰的记得是36.5$, 有兴趣的时候可以看看现在多少钱。
