Episode notes
The 2022 federal election voting day is almost upon us.This has been a relatively dismal campaign for ventilating and illuminating, in detail, the parties' and independents’ actual policies. There’s a kind of media lip service paid to the theory that, in our democracy, we should get to judge whom to vote for around their policies, but sadly, the reality is otherwise. We, as citizens, are left mostly in the dark with broad generalisations and abstractions wrapped in slippery promises.
However, in this last week of the election campaign, the great steaming mess that is the housing crisis in Australia, including home affordability, homelessness, rental stress and the acute shortage of housing stock has become a slightly more prominent point of contention between the coalition and Labor.
Unfortunately, their actua ... ... Read more