“Stay away from Indian builders” Australia’s other hidden ‘Housing Crisis’

Most people should be aware of the ‘housing’ crisis, in the form of rentals and sales was a deliberate action caused by the federal government from ‘over’ importation of immigrants Australians truly do not need, as pointed out in government hansards.

The government basically screwed over Aussies, sound familiar?

The government created the problem, where now allegedly they’re going to fix it with whatever number of residences being built, which is an unobtainable figure, as dissected by industry experts. 

With the policy of over importation, comes another agenda that being the deliberate letting through low quality immigrants from a few selected places, including criminals, who will continue their criminal activities in this colony, meaning more business for the legal system, especially the courts in order to justify their existence.  

A recent example of corporate criminals allowed to conduct business, as this increases the government's coffers, due to tax raised is the allowing of Uber to flourish in Australia.

See article: Uber admits breaking the law when it launched in Australia

As a result people were harmed, where they had to take action, which was MORE ‘business’ for the legal community.

AS the saying goes; “It’s legal until you get caught”, and even then, if your ‘brethren’ have got your back, all is good.

Australia has a plague of (imported) low quality Uber/Uber Eats drivers that ‘we’ the people, never really asked for nor need, given the fact that we have so many unemployed Australians, irrespective of the ‘official’ figure, as this figure is doctored.

The government makes it really easy and quick for people to generate the tax dollars (for the fat cats in government) in the building industry.

One can be a low quality person, you know low moral values, low work etiquette, low quality worker  and after a few week course obtain a ‘builder’s’ certification in order to start generating the tax dollars for the government, after all, it’s ALL about the ‘economy’.

Got to keep the serfs busy, generating revenue for the government!

Australia’s home or residence building industry is facing a crisis on a couple of fronts at least, as a result of deliberate government actions that screw over Australians.

Putting aside the financial aspect of housing which is the focus of the mainstream media, the other very important ‘crisis’ created is that many many residences are of low quality, poor execution, even the ones marketed as ‘boutique’ or 'high end’ dwellings.

This is especially prevalent in the ‘build to rent’ market by so called ‘developers’.

MANY established builders of good quality dwellings would not be prepared to come forward in stating for the ‘public record’ that the building industry is rife with low quality workers from India, that truly do not care for the quality of the residence that ‘Aussies’ will occupy.

‘Australian Standards’, which is another farce for another time, or builder’s guarantees, don’t matter, as they don’t care, where there are too many ‘horror’ stories to mention, which are outside of the scope for this post.

Real Estate agents are dodgy at the best of times, BUT they also ‘support’ the dodgy building industry by covering up the faults of the flats, town houses, apartments that are inherently ‘defective’ that they are selling, in order to make those sales figures.

City Councils significant contributors to the problem

Australians are over administered, by the ‘third tier’ or rather the ‘no tier’ of government.

Australians are misled that city councils are a law making authority, which they are not.

There are only two legal law making entities, that being federal and state parliaments.

The current businesses referred to as city councils are technically ‘unconstitutional’ where they should be a department of state.

So, very briefly, 

- ‘City councils’ or rather ‘municipal offices’ must function as a department of the state, which current ‘local government’ does not, where it operates as a ‘business’.

- In Victoria, city councils allegedly obtain their power from the Local Government Act of 1989, which in turn is subject to Victoria’s Constitution from 1975, but are these Acts in circulation lawfully?

Documents tendered to the County Court of Victoria state that the short answer is, No, where there should be a class action lawsuit against city council in each state.

SO, these ‘city councils’ are in cahoots with the dodgy building industry in play at the moment, approving plans, inspections, and final reports that realistically should not pass, where bribery is also rife and part of a ‘normal’ business day.

Approximately 15 years ago, Brimbank City Council was ‘sacked’, but they were the only ones.

MANY more should have fallen, but didn’t.

One of the reasons why they haven’t fallen is that the public would have ‘no confidence’ in government, and the authorities can’t have a bar of that!

So the lies and deceit are kept alive, together with a total lack of ‘investigative’ journalism by the mainstream media, which is another deliberate policy.

City councils have a zero care factor about the quality of workmanship that goes into the buildings, where the priority is to get the premises built, or order to TAX the residents, where if any problems are brought out from the ‘woodwork’ then the people can deal with them to much distress of the owners/renters.

At the end of the (business) day, the colony called Australia, is a corporate criminal’s paradise, especially if one is supported by the ‘brotherhood’.

Uber admits breaking the law when it launched in Australia

Rideshare giant Uber has admitted illegally setting up operations in Australia, as it faces a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over claims it used secret spyware to lure drivers to try to “crush” its local rival.

Australian taxi-booking app GoCatch sued the American tech giant over allegations it engaged in corporate espionage and used secret spyware to lure drivers.

Australian taxi-booking app GoCatch sued the American tech company over allegations it engaged in corporate espionage and used secret spyware to lure drivers in a bid to “crush” its Sydney-based rival.

GoCatch, which was once backed by billionaire James Packer and investment banker Alex Turnbull, also alleged Uber was operating illegally when it launched its UberX ridesharing service in several Australian states in 2014.

A Victorian Supreme Court trial was on Tuesday told Uber had for the first time admitted it was breaking the law when it began operations in Australia.

“Uber has been consistently reluctant, in fact, refused to acknowledge this reality that it was illegal,” GoCatch lawyer Michael Hodge KC said in his opening remarks.

“They have done so until this statement of agreed facts.”

Ridesharing was legalised in NSW in December 2015, followed by other states, and Mr Hodge said the court needed to consider the significance of Uber’s 20-month headstart when assessing damages.

Uber is also accused of stealing GoCatch taxi drivers — who were accredited and booked via a mobile app — by employing “Surfcam” spyware which enabled the company to obtain details, including names and phone numbers.

Internal emails reveal then Uber Australia boss David Rohrsheim discussed wanting to “destroy” and “crush” GoCatch before they became “too legit”.  

 

Uber Australia boss David Rohrsheim discussed wanting to ‘destroy’ GoCatch before it became ‘too legit’. Picture: Neil Duncan

“I got my hands on a list of all GoCatch driver phone numbers. We are aggressively cold calling (without disclosing how we got their number) and won 56 of their drivers,” he said in an email from 2014.

“The inescapable conclusion is that GoCatch in particular is reaching critical mass and we now have a low-cost competitor to deal with,” he said in a different email.

Another employee stated: “Go Catch is *the* reason we’re launching taxi in Sydney. F--k those guys.”

Uber is also accused of misleading regulators, going as far as using an electronic “kill switch” to hide records while a search warrant was being carried out — a claim the company denies. 

GoCatch co-founder Andrew Campbell says it has been a ‘long process’ but he is glad the case has been brought to trial.

GoCatch co-founder Andrew Campbell said it had been a “long process” but he was glad the case had been brought to trial.

“Uber has never accepted responsibility for its conduct towards GoCatch. Uber’s first priority was to win at any cost using any method to destroy us as a competitive threat,” he said in a statement.

“We are fortunate to be in a position to go to Court as we believe that is the only pathway for Uber to be held accountable.”

In a statement, Uber, whose opening remarks are expected later in the trial, rejected any suggestion that it should be liable for the failure of other businesses to adapt to an “emerging competitive landscape”.

 “Uber is a fundamentally different business today than we were a decade ago. Since then, we have made significant changes to our leadership and how we conduct business, taking seriously our responsibility to be a collaborative, contributing industry leader,” it said.

Last month Uber, which is headquartered in San Francisco, settled a $272m class action with 8000 Australian taxi operators amid claims they had lost income after the company began illegally operating in Australia.

The civil trial, which is expected to run for 10 weeks before Justice Lisa Nichols, continues. 

New class action filed against Medibank

Australian private health insurance giant Medibank is set to face additional proceedings, with a global law firm bringing a shareholder action for alleged breach of continuous disclosure obligations pertaining to purported non-disclosures about deficiencies in the company’s cyber security defences.

This afternoon (Wednesday, 29 March), Medibank (ASX: MPL) announced to the market that it was served with class action proceedings in the Supreme Court of Victoria, months after one of the biggest data privacy breaches in Australia’s history.

The proceedings are on behalf of shareholders who acquired interests in the health insurance provider between 1 July 2019 and 19 October 2022 and are being brought by global plaintiff firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.

On the website set up by the firm for shareholders to register for the class action, Quinn Emanuel outlined that its claim against the health insurance provider arises from the breach of “substantial volumes of data” from Medibank’s network, including the personal and health claims data of customers being accessed by one or more hackers.

“The stolen data was later publicly released via the dark web,” the firm noted.

“Briefly and in broad terms”, the firm is alleging that, prior to the breach late last year, “Medibank was ‘aware’ of information concerning deficiencies in its cyber security systems, [and] by failing to disclose that information to the Australian Securities Exchange, Medibank breached the continuous disclosure obligations imposed on it by provisions of the Corporations Act”.

Moreover, Quinn Emanuel continued, “the failure to disclose the information caused the market price of Medibank shares to be inflated so that investors purchased those shares at a price which was greater than what they would otherwise have paid”.

Medibank noted that it intends to defend the proceedings.

The news follows the filing of a class action against Medibank by fellow global law firm Baker McKenzie, in conjunction with litigation funder Omni Bridgeway, in February.

It also follows the decision by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, Bannister Law Class Actions, and Centennial Lawyers to join forces on an action to secure compensation for consumers in mid-January.

The joint proceedings followed the launching of an investigation by Maurice Blackburn in mid-November (which became an officially launched proceeding in December) and by Bannister Law and Centennial Lawyers in early November.

The cyber breach late last year involved highly personal information of millions of Medibank customers, including names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, some Medicare and passport numbers and in some cases, sensitive healthcare information, including codes associated with diagnosis and medical procedures.

“Health claims data for around 160,000 Medibank customers, around 300,000 ahm customers, and around 20,000 international customers [were accessed]. This includes service provider name and location, where customers received certain medical services, and codes associated with diagnosis and procedures administered,” the provider said at the time.

“Additionally, around 5,200 My Home Hospital (MHH) patients have had some personal and health claims data accessed, and around 2,900 next of kin of these patients have had some contact details accessed.”