Anthony Albanese - How long? -2-

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Runaway housing prices are driven by high demand from immigration, investment in our property market by international /domestic speculators and supply constraints due to over regulation, lack of building resources, tradesmen, and government taxes and charges built in at every stage of the supply chain. Every step of this shit show is directly the fault of government policy and at this point I reckon it has to be deliberate.

Not sure about over regulation when so many ‘dog box apartments’ have been built

And thermal efficiency in housing will go a long way to ease climate issues
 

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Not sure about over regulation when so many ‘dog box apartments’ have been built

And thermal efficiency in housing will go a long way to ease climate issues

And massively increase housing unaffordability, reduce supply, raise house prices and around and around we go again.

The full extent on construction code updates regarding thermal performance aren't yet known/realised in the market yet. So get prepared for things to get ALOT worse.

It was a brilliant idea to try and introduce sweeping changes in this regard at a time of record gaps in housing supply and affordability though.....

It's why I shake my head at those advocating so hard for climate change measures and then in the next thread blowing their top at cost of living and housing affordability. It's not the industry to be hard lining it in at the moment.

They are interrelated at the moment. With the only real solution to these two things being achieved at the same time being massive government intervention (i.e they pay for it all).

Why do material costs and building costs magically increase at the same rate as house prices? Or is it the other way around?

They don't.

They've been outstripping them for years, hence it's come to the point they aren't getting built and you have so many insolvencies with construction companies because they are working within a legal system designed to completely protect the end user (you, mum & dad) in every aspect.
 
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And massively increase housing unaffordability, reduce supply, raise house prices and around and around we go again.

The full extent on construction code updates regarding thermal performance aren't yet known/realised in the market yet. So get prepared for things to get ALOT worse.

It was a brilliant idea to try and introduce sweeping changes in this regard at a time of record gaps in housing supply and affordability though.....

It's why I shake my head at those advocating so hard for climate change measures and then in the next thread blowing their top at cost of living and housing affordability. It's not the industry to be hard lining it in at the moment.

They are interrelated at the moment. With the only real solution to these two things being achieved at the same time being massive government intervention (i.e they pay for it all).



They don't.

They've been outstripping them for years, hence it's come to the point they aren't getting built and you have so many insolvencies with construction companies because they are working within a legal system designed to completely protect the end user (Banks ) in every aspect.

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We need public housing, and lots of it. We need tradies, and lots of them. We need to stop the tax incentives prioritising real estate over other forms of investment.
The state and Commonwealth governments had the perfect opportunity to add to the public housing stock by building during covid if they wanted to keep the building industry going.

Instead they threw homebuilder grants around and stuffed the industry.
 
Much of the building industry worked through covid
There was a bunch of money chucked at the industry to keep it going when money was being chucked all over the place. The building industry only has work to do when there are jobs, the homebuilder grants were so work didn't dry up.

It created a massive building boom. The trouble is it was beyond the capacity of the industry to handle.
 
The state and Commonwealth governments had the perfect opportunity to add to the public housing stock by building during covid if they wanted to keep the building industry going.

Instead they threw homebuilder grants around and stuffed the industry.
There is a particular expensive street in an expensive area in Adelaide where just about every second house had a major renovation or a complete demolition and rebuild at about the same time. When was that? Covid. My envious brain tells me a lot of the owners got Jobkeeper for their businesses and didn't need it.
 
There is a particular expensive street in an expensive area in Adelaide where just about every second house had a major renovation or a complete demolition and rebuild at about the same time. When was that? Covid. My envious brain tells me a lot of the owners got Jobkeeper for their businesses and didn't need it.
Yeah there was a shitload of rorting of Jobkeeper but it put a lot of money in people's pockets when they otherwise you have had to apply for the dole. It tied people to their employer so the economy could get going again when the lockdowns were lifted.

Jobkeeper was panic policy to deal with a black swan event.
 

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The impact of the covid support was a big reminder of the potency of expansionary fiscal policy during a downturn and a big finger to those academics who think it's ineffective in a floating exchange rate regime.
 
I think Albo may be in strife from within.

Although Oppo research makes it difficult for Jim Chalmers!!

Dutton 51-49 currently. If that stretches to 52-48 the knives will come out.

It has been a disappointing 2.5 years thus far from someone who I believed who make an excellent PM.
 
I think Albo may be in strife from within.

Although Oppo research makes it difficult for Jim Chalmers!!

Dutton 51-49 currently. If that stretches to 52-48 the knives will come out.

It has been a disappointing 2.5 years thus far from someone who I believed who make an excellent PM.
I would be embarrassed thinking Dutton is a better alternative. People have rocks in their head if these polls are legit. You generally give incumbents at least 1 term to fix the issues not 2.5 years FFS. This is on the morons out there who can't get there head around why we are in this COL/inflation situation in the 1st place. The bloke on the other side had a fair bit to do with it. It shows how efficient the Murdoch media is at deflection and sweeping things under a rug. We had these problems when the LNP were in charge but they were never scrutinised the way Albo is now. Not absolving him of responsibility as he should stop hedging his bets and make more proactive decisions instead of pandering to everybody but he's so far ahead of Potato as a leader it's not funny but that's not saying much. Sad state of affairs IMO, LNP get a free ride when there in charge it's plainly obvious.
 
"Hey Al, its me Albo. Look, Im getting hitched so can you get me and the boy upgraded to First Class? Oh, and also get the boy into that Chairman club."

'Of course. And of course there will be no quid pro quo here. Anyone can call me any time for free upgrades and invites to my club.'

Last week its a $4m house, this week its free 1st class tickets. But he really is one of us.
 
So the bullshit story about Albanese buying a house like every other property baron politician didn't stick, and now the right-wing media is dredging up an old bullshit story about Albo and Qantas from more than a decade ago when he was Transport Minister.

They're trying everything to see what sticks. I acknowledge that it's not a good look, but this country has so many bigger fish to fry than this crap.
 

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