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[โ€“] 3 points 4 days ago (5 children)

while our prime Minister does nothing

Sorry boss Albo's government changed tax laws in May, and property prices have been reducing since then.

Is there something else you wanted him to do?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Wow he did one whole thing. And new home sales have dropped since he did that. He's also falling short of his new home build goals, and he's done nothing to fix rental prices.

    The suburb I'm in has land developers sitting on their hands releasing plots 10 at a time despite the land being ready, the houses that were $200k less than ten years ago are over $1m (not an exaggeration btw), and the rent is $800/week to live in them. And that's the ones that aren't airbnb. This suburb is 40% empty Airbnbs. And it's a common story across Australia, with easily solved problems. It'll just piss off some rich people but I do not give a single fuck about nimbys bitching and moaning when it's holding up the rest of the country.

    I'd like him to quit being a smug useless cunt and actually do some reform to fix things.

    I'm not saying it's his fault, these are mostly Howard era problems compounded over the years. But Labor is fucking useless and needs to pull their heads out of their assess. I mentioned albos beach front mansion because it shows he genuinely doesn't give a shit what people think. The optics are fucking terrible. He's using tax payer money to buy that shit, and flying off to meet with Tim Cook for whatever fucking reason rn instead of solving real problems.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Is there something else you wanted him to do?

    Is there anything specific or are you just a whinger?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    His job.

    I'd like you to actually read what I said before replying.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I did read what you said.

    There's not really anything you want him to do.

    You want him to stop being a cunt?

    You want him to call a developer in your area?

    You want him to not buy a house?

    In the context of the recent tax reforms, which have actually changed the trajectory of house prices, I dont really see how any of this will meaningfully improve housing in Australia.

    Its fine to dislike Albo. I voted for Labor last go round but will be voting further left next time.

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  • I listed problems and said they have easy solutions. A small tax did not solve the housing crisis. It barely made a dent. We need to end foreign investment in property so the people living here can have houses. We need to tax second homes, short stay accommodation (Airbnb), and vacant houses until it is no longer profitable. It can be profitable again when people have homes. We need stronger rental protections so a large portion of the population aren't just funneling money to the wealthy, and living at the whim of unqualified property managers. Developers need to be forced to stop bottlenecking supply to keep profits up. Among many other things. There are employed homeless people. That's insane to me.

    The environment is being destroyed by mining companies, with protections being weakened/climate goals ignored. And none of them are even being taxed properly so the billionaires are just robbing the country of resources, making it unlivable, and making bank off of it simultaneously. More and more protected habitats are being released to the companies to be stripped. Including a gas company being allowed to strip a massive swathe of federally owned koala habitats recently, for example. And it's getting worse with data centres being allowed to develop now too.

    Again, my mention of albos tone deaf mansion purchase during a housing crisis and milqeutoast policies is to point out that he doesn't give a fuck. Albo has done fuckall, and anything he has done is barely a half measure.

    I have always voted left, labor is centre right. But by all means, continue to cherry pick/strawman bits of my comment and act like you don't understand. I won't bother replying anymore, I've explained myself well enough to anyone else reading this.

    And yeah, for the record, yeah, I would like albo to stop being a cunt.

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