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doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I haven’t read the article and I’m not Australian but throwing a random guess out: isn’t there a political issue about the conservative liberals stopping the labor party from rolling out a low income housing program that has historically paid for itself before?

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stifle867@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Honestly, the Labour party is not truly interested in doing this. In USA politics (assuming you’re familiar with it) the left and right are further apart than in Australian politics.

We have the Greens party which is the left leaning party and the Nationals which are the right. Labour and Liberal are on opposite sides of the middle and they team up with the Greens and the Nationals (respectively) to make up the numbers.

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- princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Labor* party.
  
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vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s more talking about regular private housing than public or social housing. Social housing itself is more of a semi-private thing too, and is more of a band-aid than a real fix.

Massive investment in proper government funded public housing would be one solution, along with a substantial improvement in renters rights. And the article is suggesting removing some concessions that encourage housing as investment, which would help and the public might accept (but previous elections have suggested otherwise).

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