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A woman who long ago accepted that she’ll be renting until the day she dies has this weekend let out a half hearted cheer, after the party who won’t do anything about housing but probably won’t make things worse beat the party that won’t do anything about housing but will probably make things worse.
Anita Hobbs, 26, says she’s happy Anthony Albanese secured a second term as prime minister, given the other option was a bloke who consisted voted against reproductive rights, increasing university funding, federal action on public housing, and pretty much any bill that would increase the quality of life for working class Australians, but that she doesn’t expect to change anytime soon.
Which is comparatively, a small win, she supposes.
“Well, with Labor securing a majority government, I can’t expect anything to be done about house prices, given there’s not as many Greens lighting a fire under their arse anymore”, says Anita, with a sigh, “but at least people won’t be ransacking their super to pay for houses.”
“So, there’s that.”
Anita says that given that 65% of the population owns a house, she knows that any party that tries to scrap policies that benefit property investors would be committing political suicide.
But it would be nice if they could something.
“I know scrapping negative gearing and the 50% capital gains discount for property investors is off the table, but maybe they could tax the shit out of people who own empty houses?”
“Demolish more houses and put in high rise apartment buildings?”
“A girl can dream.”
More to come.
