A disgusting new law

Ok just found out about this yesterday:

State can sell your home

THE State Government plans to give its agencies and councils power to compulsorily acquire private land to re-sell to developers at a profit – or, if they choose, at a reduced price so the developers make even more money.

I bet if you were to look at the Labor party’s political campaign donators, you’d find a lot of money rolling in to the Labor party coffers via developers. This law looks like it is targeted specifically to make their lives easier, it doesn’t even make some kind of attempt to seem like it’s for a legitimate purpose.

They (Frank Sartor and co.) even have the nerve to try and say “oh but it’s only going to be used in cases where it has net public benefit”. Wtf? There is no properly defined public benefit, so clearly this is just a wankjob and it’s going to be utterly subjective.

This really really makes me mad, now any home owner can’t even live in the comfort that they actually own their own land. Because the government can just come along and say “oh wait, you don’t actually own that land, we’re just going to take it!”. And this part is my favourite:

Anyone could challenge any determination by the minister or the acquiring authority, including on the issue of net public benefit, in court.

Mmm, because I’m sure this is a completely unbiased way to decide whether or not land gets taken. It’d be like trying to “negotiate” with the ATO to not pay tax. The government can decide it wants your land, and if you want to dispute it, guess who you dispute it with? The government. Seems fair to me!

Why do you vote and support democracy when this what it creates? Government is all about different factions trying to win the right to steal from other people. In this case, the developers have won the game, and all property owners are the losers. Who will be the winners and losers of the next idiotic government policy?