The Great Divide: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It

The Great Divide: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It | Alan Kohler Webinar

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One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney’s median house price is the second most expensive on Earth, after Hong Kong’s.
The escalation in house prices is a pain that has altered Australian society; it has increased inequality and profoundly changed the relationship between generations - between those who have a house and those who don’t. Things went seriously wrong at the start of the twenty-first century, when there was a huge and permanent rise in the price of housing. But what actually happened? And what to do now? As Alan Kohler explains, “the solutions are both complex and simple, difficult and easy: supply must be increased and superfluous demand reduced.”
Join our webinar, as Alan Kohler discusses his latest essay and tells the story of how we got into this mess - and how we might get out of it.

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@downrightdisturbed 5 ай бұрын

Sounds like we need an independent body to moderate housing affordability (mostly by supply) relative to wages (similar to the RBA), because politicians have proved that they are incapable of fairly regulating the market. At bare minimum, a Royal Commission into the housing market... (as complicated as that may seem, we need to get the ball moving ASAP).

@shawn5210 5 ай бұрын

Supply and demand are equal. How can it be “mostly by supply”?

@andrewkerr5296 5 ай бұрын

Can you define, 'Fairly Regulating' please Have you ever developed Property? Government is the sole reason why Developing Land is becoming more & more expensive

@desembrey 5 ай бұрын

@@andrewkerr5296 What - because they require standards be met, and the buying punter not be ripped off?

@andrewkerr5296 5 ай бұрын

@@desembrey Great Business model Build shit & rip off the customer You've clearly never ran a Business before

@desembrey 5 ай бұрын

@@andrewkerr5296 Consumer protections only come into being after a protracted period of exploitation and complaints to their representatives from the victims. Is it your position that no exploitation of buyers by developers and builders has ever occurred? That there has never been such a thing as 'fly-by-night' developers who take the money and run, leaving buyers with partially or poorly built houses and no recourse? Historically it's the consumer who has copped it in the neck by shabby business practices. Even where developers run on such thin margins and collapse when materials increase in cost - these were business decisions by the developer, and while they may collapse, its still the consumer who wears the consequences. ... If your way of responding to a discussion is to attack commenters, your future in business is going to be short.

@dan2304 5 ай бұрын

Simple solution; only Australia citizens hold title to real estate. Not companies, not non-citizens only citizens.

@MitchDonovan 4 ай бұрын

Companies can own industrial, active rural business (no land squatting) or commercial land only - no residential land at all. Unfortunately that will stop "daddy" buying an apartment for his daughter through a company and writing off on tax while she charges a flatmate "rent" to pay for her spending money while claiming Austudy.

@jobyjob_memoriesof1985 Ай бұрын

The actual solution should be remove any undue tax incentives for property investors prompting people to make a fortune from a very basic human necessity. Nothing else... If someone argues that investors are helping to build more dwellings, that is an insane argument.. Why would someone invest for others to live in.. that is just to squeeze the renters... Instead, let the govt invest in properties for those who are newly coming to the country and when people have enough money to buy for themselves let them buy on their own in a more reasonable market. In short, remove the "investment" quotient at the expense of taxing system. Also ensure that all the money coming into real estate market is indeed white money, and not black money..

@dan2304 Ай бұрын

@@jobyjob_memoriesof1985 The whole taxation system favors wealthy and corporations many of whom pay little or no tax. That needs to change to a flat turnover tax but without deductions

@vivianoosthuizen8990 Ай бұрын

Just thank your government whom allowed $401.6 billion foreign investment in Real Estate market for 2020 2021 2022 while the citizens was locked up in their homes and couldn’t cross state borders even so very few local citizens bought new homes . This amount of money was enough to overheat the market

@dan2304 Ай бұрын

Holding title to real-estate in Australia should be reserved for Australian citizens.

@cind_errs 5 ай бұрын

Australia has a productivity issue. Australias economy relies on resources (holes), immigration to increase GDP and a housing ponzi. Housing builds wealth but it has no productivity. Until housing is addressed Australia can’t fix productivity as money is invested into housing and not endeavours which will increase productivity.

@brudamo9203 5 ай бұрын

The french, a couple of centuries ago used to call landlords the 'sterile' class for the same reason.

@s.a.m.9837 5 ай бұрын

Yeah basically

@JohnSmith-cu8yc 5 ай бұрын

Totally agree.

@Shloeb 4 ай бұрын

I wonder if the government is so dumb that they do not understand this simple thing. Or are they just closing their eyes to it

@JohnSmith-cu8yc 5 ай бұрын

As someone overseas, I observe Australia as an increasingly entitled, elitist and almost feudal society where the established are obsessed with ever-increasing wealth at the direct expense of others. Landlords and peasants. In Sydney and Melbourne society today one can observe so many ostentatious displays of wealth (luxury cars, industrial-scale house renovations, holidays in Greece etc.) which are likely funded by property capital growth, negative gearing savings on income tax and rental income. No productivity there. Why can’t people build wealth from a productive profession and unleveraged investment in index funds?

@glennrao7420 5 ай бұрын

Because building a business is high risk and the stats show that failure is highly likely. You then need to move down the risk scale and hence why housing is so popular as an investment and wealth building vehicle!

@JohnSmith-cu8yc 5 ай бұрын

@@glennrao7420 I was referring to a salaried profession (e.g. accountant, software developer, pharmacist) rather than an self-employed enterprise but I agree with your point - why bother taking the risk on a new or innovative business when you can instead put your capital into a much safer, income-generating vehicle like an investment property. If Australia hadn’t incentivised property investment to the extent it has, perhaps people could simply afford a property based on the value society placed on their skills (e.g. brain surgeon, teacher, plumber) and everyone could still live in the same suburbs in the same houses, without all the increased leverage / debt incurred from competing with property investors.

@jashmatash 5 ай бұрын

@JohnSmith-cu8yc The Australian government effectively backstops housing as an investment class. Maximum returns with no risk...An asymmetric risk/reward profile. Hence everyone floods into it.

@InfinityIsland2203 5 ай бұрын

Because thinking is hard and building a productive economy requires effort and dedication. Our polititians from either party are criminals running an immigration and housing pyramid scheme and we the greedy selfish narcissistic got hooked on the property high keep voting them in

@user-lo3eu9it2b 2 ай бұрын

simply,this is not a country,it's a colonised land of the then empire,it's a remote resource land of the empire,huge land,little population,labour very high,nothing made here will have competitive advantage,it mainly sell resources.for the size of this place,it needs at least 50 to 80million population to be able to run as a country,to make competitive products to make income.but then,who is willing to take a pay cut?thats also probably the nost important reason people migrate here,and the authority won't allow this to happen,not too soon by immgration,because this will shake the foundation of the current voting system,imagine 9 out of 10 people who vote are not your people,the government(system) is too weak for the labour needed,the labour now is too low to produce.

@jamiehoward7478 4 ай бұрын

Great interview. My take on this in a condensed version is that effectively, Australia has painted itself into a corner on housing to which it can't get out off without upsetting Baby Boomers & big business.

@InfinityIsland2203 5 ай бұрын

It has to be evident to everyone now why Australian house prices have to keep growing at ANY cost. If they stop they start reversing to the normal -40% level. We have been sold out by corrupt polititians and its out fault for voting them in every time.

@PeterShawpshawman 5 ай бұрын

When voting is mandatory and they're all corrupt how is it our fault.

@34Media 5 ай бұрын

mate in Perth a great builder is shutting shop like a lot of Perth builders as new rule WA govt introduced means he has to have 250000 aud in cash sitting in a bank so he can get builders insurance!! absolutely mental. Obviously the big builders trying to kill off the competition, and paid off their mate sin charge to kill the little guys. terrible news for a place that already has nothing to buy only 4000 homes for sale in whole of Perth.

@Lewbahh 4 ай бұрын

If youre building homes as a lead builder and your business doesn't have that kind of liquid cash available you probably shouldnt be building houses. IF something goes wrong how's he gonna fix it with no money?

@34Media 4 ай бұрын

@@Lewbahh yeah it's not just house builders sorry i may have been confusing. its any builder with license so renovators who just do kitchens or bathroom cutouts as well little trades people who maybe employee just one apprentice doing 30 grand jobs .

@maleahlock 2 ай бұрын

@@Lewbahh It's ANYONE with a builders license. It's ridiculous.

@mickmckpng3153 5 ай бұрын

You know where this magic 3 and a half times comes from ? Back then you borrowed from the Savings Bank arm of the bank not the Commercial Bank arm and they would lend about 3x the average of your last 12mths savings....same for everyone there was no monopoly money to throw around at auctions you borrowed what you could borrow plus your savings plus a top up from mum and dad and if the house wasn't in budget you bought a cheaper one.... the vendors had to price accordingly....

@user-lo3eu9it2b 2 ай бұрын

funny when I bought my house ,Raywhite gave me a melbourne version of Monopoly game

@alshami7456 18 күн бұрын

Main factors for why house prices have gone ballistic: - Immigration / Population Growth. We've had the rate % of growth more than double since 2000 - CGT discount - Negative gearing - Monetary policy after GFC (abnormally low interest rates & QE money printing), this has made Property a bank account for most people - Deregulation of global financial industry in the late 90s, allowing people to borrow more easily - First home buyer grants - Loss of manufacturing / productive investment which has led money to pile into property instead

@rof8200 5 ай бұрын

Raise the loan to valuation ratio (LVR) for investment properties. That's it.

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

That will reduce the investment in housing which is totally Not what is needed.

@thedamnedatheist 5 ай бұрын

The GFC was caused by a lot more than a drop in house prices, in fact that was a consequence of the sub prime collapse. Chris Minns & his government appear to have listened to the YIMBYs with his focus on infill housing and taking planning control from councils. The only way to fix house prices is for the various governments to start building affordable, basic, public housing for long term leases, which gives the government control of the size of dwellings. Build a lot of these in regional centres to take pressure off the main cities & stimulates regional cities. The Federal government can fund this by borrowing half a trillion to build infrastructure & housing, and by closing all the loopholes in the tax system & increasing corporate tax & resource rents.

@fstrading8470 5 ай бұрын

^ Great advice - When will you run, we need more people like you then the muppets we have

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

What are the so called "loopholes"? Where do you think the financial resources and other reseources will come from and at what cost to the public will your scheme of government borrowing bring compared to the present situation of people funding their own housing directly.

@Lewbahh 4 ай бұрын

i t seems fairly obvious. Those born before a certain period needed roughly 3x annual income for a mortgage. Young people these days are looking at 10+ years of annual income for a mortgage. Even as high as 13 to 14x median annual income if you want to live anywhere near a city where you'll be able to make a wage that will allow you. Australia's obsession with using property as an investment is ridiculous. IF you have a stock portfolio you accept that their is a risk involved. Older Australians are buying more property as investment and they don't seem to think that there is any inherent risk as they increase rent for their tenants to cover their losses and essentially there's no risk involved for them. But what kind of a human being needs more than a family home? How can you sleep knowing you're forcing another family to pay for your 4th investment property.

@vishalborase5506 4 ай бұрын

Big fan of Alan Kohler 🙏👍

@detectiveofmoneypolitics 5 ай бұрын

Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is still watching this very informative content cheers Frank as subscriber 😊

@TheFfabinhoo 4 ай бұрын

What's the point? I see you saying the same thing in the Martin North videos but you cannot influence anything in the gov policies. Come on mate

@prof.puggle1631 5 ай бұрын

Lovely interview. Good context. I still think Fred Harrison states a very solid suggestion regarding land and rent. Worth deep consideration. 100% It was enriching to engage the historical context too, thank you. PP

@mikeweddell7956 3 ай бұрын

Why u not mention that most MPs have multiple houses , which is a function of the corrupt Remuneration Commission which overloads public servants pay to absurd levels , incl their own

@marcoschena99 11 күн бұрын

Good chat. People on average incomes don't necessarily buy averaged priced houses, usually we start off smaller, something more affordable. Don't compare your chapter 1 to Mum and Dad's chapter 40. Stay positive, save hard, cut back on the spending for two or three years to get a decent deposit/buffer together. Never give up. Things are only going to get worse in 2030's/2040's when the baby boomers die and that avalanche of way gets passed down.

@marcoschena99 11 күн бұрын

Also houses are much bigger than 30/40 years ago and most households have dual income. A lot more stay at home mums in back in the day. Also the other big issue no one is talking about is the $500,000,000,000 ($50b) given out over COVID, that has purchased a lot of investment properties for business owners.

@sl2462 5 ай бұрын

It honestly baffles me that kids these days are not out on the street protesting about housing affordability but are instead protesting about global warming and foreign wars. Doesn't give me a lot of faith in the future of housing affordability in this country. It's like they want to be slaves to the older generation.

@jamiehoward7478 4 ай бұрын

I guess they don't see much point protesting. Can you imagine the pile on from the MSM and Boomer TV (Sky news).

@jarydf 3 ай бұрын

Thanks

@leonie563 5 ай бұрын

I'm thinking we go have a sharky swim in:- 1. Limited Recourse Borrowing Facility 2. Annual Reviews of SMSFs 3. Cap tax refunds on "businesses" at 1 dwelling (residential or commercial).

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

Amazing that Kohler has referred to the Reserve bank to support his views. The reserve bank that said in its oficial statement a little more than a year ago that inflation predictions and interest rates would not rise until at least 2024 and now is wavering about its decision to hold interest rates where they were last month. His silly a statement is if everyone expects prices to go up they will. So that is his brilliant analysis in a nutshell. - Expectations make price rises and not the amount of money people have to spend on things because they can spend their expected income not their actual income. I wonder who has recently paid for house at auction with a wallet full of expectations or even at real estate agent's office. ? I think I will trade few thousand expectations to see what I get some new stuff for Christmas.

@davidwilkie9551 5 ай бұрын

Australia has had some excellent leadership in policy and the opposite at other times, which is inherent in people and their collective representation in individuals. Ie we have a history to draw on, and "The Lucky Country" observation is not always ironic. The ancient Greek strategy of appointment of a Tyrant was made under the same circumstances as any choice of an individualised decision-making process, and the missing information In-form-ation of how a metastable personal proportioning of relative-timing ratio-rates Perspective, in this reciprocation-recirculation Actuality, is the basic "crisatunity" for everyone, without exception.

@serena-yu 5 ай бұрын

There was nothing about luck in 23 years of continuous growth, and nothing about wise politicians during this time. It was simply because of China buying the iron ore.

@windwaker0rules 5 ай бұрын

Alan Kohler on ABC: Its a very complex issue that doesn't have any obvious solution Alan Kohler here: Here is why its happening and how to solve it.

@shawn5210 5 ай бұрын

It does have an obvious solution.

@theanticom4053 4 ай бұрын

Great video, but where is the acknowledgement that the entire banking system is a criminal scam?

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

Kohler idea that cutting the capital gains would some how reduce the housing costs is so ill founded since it ignores the fact that it would dissuade people from investing into property which is always a factor that reducing the resources put into housing will help the situation.

@rosella3966 4 ай бұрын

If only I had bought while I was learning to read and write in Primary School.

@thebuxybull5881 4 ай бұрын

Separate categories for housing. Owner occupy becomes utility . Investor rental remains in financial a$$et market.

@graemetunbridge1738 5 ай бұрын

If you remove the subsidies on cars (~5$ per Km ) and land speculation (huge), most of our problems will disappear.

@Jean-nr5ch 4 ай бұрын

The homeowners rent out their rooms so we have to be careful about divide.

@davidapswoude3259 4 ай бұрын

homes are 50% taxed by State Government by “lifetime” GST and Stamp Duty. Gov tax is Housing inflation-pure and simple fact.

@user-lo3eu9it2b 2 ай бұрын

100%.

@shawn5210 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for finally acknowledging mass immigrations negative effects

@CatastrophicalPencil 4 ай бұрын

Australia has had mass immigration since the Second World War, and in some ways, before Federation. We have only had a housing affordability problem, as Alan says, for around 20 years. The two are not synchronous.

@shawn5210 4 ай бұрын

@@CatastrophicalPencilwe had a short period of mass immigration after the Second World War when land was cheap. Between 1960 and the early 2000’s we had a sustainable level of around 70k per annum. This year we had 500k when land is expensive. Can you understand the difference?

@dugalug1795 5 ай бұрын

I'd suggest, instead of spending almost $400 Billion on a handful of nuclear powered submarines to enrich the already mega-wealthy US & UK Military-Industrial Complex companies, that instead we spend over $100 Billion LESS ($262 billion) to build one million social affordable housing units for low & middle income earners & people on welfare (such as pensioners currently living in tents & cars), over the next 5-10 years. This would completely clear the backlog of demand for affordable housing (see Mission Australia's Housing crisis report from late 2022: one million affordable social housing units needed @ $262000 per unit to build=$262 billion). The subs aren't for Australia's defence anyway, they're for America's aggressive intent towards China & will probably spend most of their time thousands of kilometres from our shores, making a nuisance of themselves in the South China Sea off China's east coast. Spending on housing is NOT welfare. Some of the resulting housing could be offered for sale to low or middle income working Australians at a small profit. The rest would be rented, with rents pegged at 25% of household income, just like existing social housing. So there's an ongoing RETURN on the investment, unlike the subs, which will no doubt break down constantly & cost a small fortune to maintain. I voted fo Albanese. I've tended to be a Labor voter. Never again. I won't vote for Dutton either, he's an even bigger warmonger & "yes" man to his American masters. Next time I'm writing "Affordable housing NOT Subs. No More Wars" on my ballots. I'll be in the "informal" column.

@dancampbell1107 5 ай бұрын

The problem is if you do this, the demand for existing houses drastically decreases, leading to a massive drop in their value. Anyone facing financial stress that bought their home in the last 5-10 years would not be able to pay off their mortgage should they have to sell and a giant black hole of debt would destroy the economy the next time we hit a recession. Free house for 1 million families sounds great but try selling the other side of the coin to those that own homes already.

@dzigizord6567 4 ай бұрын

@@dancampbell1107 "Free house for 1 million families" They should not be free ever, but offered at much better price with very little or no markup

@dancampbell1107 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely insane that the relationship between average HOUSEHOLD income and house prices wasn’t explored, and what effect the rise of dual income households has had on this. Unsure if it’s touched on in the full essay but really can’t be bothered reading the whole thing just to find it’s not. I think you’ll find, with shared expenses etc a second full time income essentially lead to a massive increase in disposable income, leading to families being able to offer far more on houses leading to the steep increase in prices. Gone are the days of bachelors living on a wage that is set to provide for a family, a functioning household now needs two incomes to thrive, as a single income is enough for a single person to merely exist.

@ChristmasCrustacean1 5 ай бұрын

23:50 Labor wanted to address housing affordability in 2019 by reforming franking credits and removing negative gearing and they lost an election over it.

@PeterShawpshawman 5 ай бұрын

They should've just stfu got voted in and did it anyway. They do it with everything else.

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

That is because fortunately people were not stupid enough to believe removing franking credits is a good way of building more wealth for all Australians. Franking credits improve their prospects of better retirement savings which in turn relieves the government from providing via higher tax more money for government pensions.

@TheFfabinhoo 4 ай бұрын

Get rid of capital gains discounts and negative gearing. Another thing, pause immigration until this s. show is sorted out. Simple

@vmura 4 ай бұрын

Royal Commission into housing. Govt has failed to ensure Australians can afford housing. cause=high stamp duty, council policy, money laundering, negative gearing, scam agents, poor quality.

@user-lo3eu9it2b 2 ай бұрын

fucking rediculous to pay 20k min for a 1m home for agent fee.all this plus stamp duty will eventually add on to the house value,unless the demand is less than supply.

@vivianoosthuizen8990 Ай бұрын

@frasersamuel2867 5 ай бұрын

Basically pets are an utter nightmare for landlords. In theory in victoria tenants should lodge an application for a pet and whilst the landlord is objecting to the pet at vcat they cant have the pet. In practice tenants are ignoring the rules and just getting pets. Ive seen kelpies, staffys, & american staffys in tiny motel type apartments in st kilda. I had a situation where i had two labs in an art deco apartment. When they left the floorboards required polishing, the painting needed to be redone and the garden was trashed. Landlords are sick of it.

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

Yep - that is about it but the appeals to the authorities seem to not consider the landlord whom they often treat a some sort of bad guy. That is a big reason rents are higher than they otherwise would be. Many landlords are sick of people trashing their rental property and seeing the trashy tenants get away with it.

@maleahlock 2 ай бұрын

Wow. What a comfy bubble you guys are in. I'm sure you get bloody wet with excitement every time a tenant has to ask you to put a photo up. . . or when you ignore roof leaks till rainy season is over. Soon LandLORDS will ban children too and require 30% of the tenants groceries. We're paying your mortgages and it's not a trade of goods and services. You're not investing. You're stealing.

@Beaches-mp6mo 4 ай бұрын

Saw the heading and thought okay sounds great, Alan Kohler even better, then I had to hear the welcome to country rubbish. Enough is Enough, its a you tube video for goodness sakes. Immediately the Australian Institute comes across as totally WOKE, so is it worth me watching any further. I do however believe in public housing.

@jobyjob_memoriesof1985 Ай бұрын

@dirtfarmstudio9829 5 ай бұрын

lots of great info, home ownership rates must rise... no more rent slaves

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

What?? Kohler says superannuation companies don't get the benefit of the capital gains because they have lower tax rates. - What confused idea that assumes lower tax make some sort of difference to how much capital gain is made on an investment by an idividual or company. His focus on lower tax paid has led to that confusion. If he was right then 90% or 100% tax would make them get bigger benefit from a capital gain so they would be pushing for higher taxes. I can't see them doing that ! It is clearly a confused Adam Kohler style financial absurdity. Appallingly bad financial thinking.

@chrisruss9861 5 ай бұрын

A migrant couple in a regional town bought an ordinary cheap house and placed half a dozen people in rooms on the top floor. Cheap, if crowded, for renters, and owners have advanced their financial situation. Asian migrants work hard and don't whine, and put up with their situation till they get a foothold. They are to be admired. That said, the mass immigration policy favoured by of all people the Greens, is pressuring infrastructure, housing costs, the carbon footprint and crucially the environment. The so called far right party, One Nation, opposes mass immigration and environmental destruction from wind, solar and pumped hydro farms. Ideology should be kicked to the kerb in favour of pragmatism and moderate targeted immigration. By the way, I was one who favoured an end to negative gearing but could not vote directly for Shorten's Labor because an end to franking credits would have reduced a modest retirement income by a third.

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

You have raised some very valid points. Loss of franking credits will put more pressure on the government to fund pensions because those who have presently invested with returns from franking credits have looked after themsleves and minimised the number of dollars that government would otherwise have had to fork out in pensions. That demolition of franking credits would be appealing to some but just is stupid short sightedness.

@dwaynebeagley5345 4 ай бұрын

It’s a simple solution.. limit the number of investment properties people can own to 3 for singles and 6 for couples.. this will take the demand out of the market of people just using bank loans to buy up all the properties

@benw2918 4 ай бұрын

Letting people buy up to 6 houses🤣🤡💩

@maxsweetman6341 5 ай бұрын

That is how a fire economy works Study Michael Hudson

@nerdy_dav 5 ай бұрын

Yep. And it needs to be unfucked!

@nottenvironmental6208 5 ай бұрын

@@nerdy_davby people who are ducks, good lu5

@rof8200 5 ай бұрын

If sovereignty was never ceded then what is Australia?

@stpOwner 5 ай бұрын

These activists sit in echo chambers and didnt learn from the referendum 😂

@owenpope353 5 ай бұрын

My dear fellow, when you made the statement 'trying to turn house owners into little capitalist', you raised my blood pressure. You see I am a very successful 'little capitalist' who has been removed from that position through deception, fraud and murder all conducted by 'little and big socialists'. I dedicated my life to allowing their activities to continue to completion, without resistance from myself. Now I am very well taken care of by the social housing system and able to look forward to a very comfortable life for the days I have left. Unfortunately the dominant system in education allows those with a very good memory but limited pre frontal lobe development to gain positions of office and direct our society without the foggiest notion of the accumulative results of their procrastination.

@PeterShawpshawman 5 ай бұрын

Get off the pipe bro

@jaidanielparker 5 ай бұрын

You smoking something? He's referring to comments made by Sir Robert Menzies in the 1950s. If mention of a historical comment gets your blood pressure up like that I suggest a hermit life with no Internet.

@chrisruss9861 5 ай бұрын

Sovereignty stuff is a turnoff. Please just get to the point of the topic.

@timburnham1214 5 ай бұрын

We need a new city. Making our exsisting cities denser in population is making them feel more intense.

@SW-lw6mt 5 ай бұрын

Nice to know we're still being shat on by John Howard and his misguided policies.

@geoffdeller7747 5 ай бұрын

I don't think they were misguided; I think they helped EXACTLY the kind of people they were targeting. The haves over the have nots!

@shawn5210 5 ай бұрын

Now turbo charged by Labor

@glennrao7420 5 ай бұрын

@@geoffdeller7747, whether people like it or not, there will always be winners and losers in this type of situation. We can’t all be haves. That’s the brutal truth!

@andrewkerr5296 5 ай бұрын

Get Government the **** out of our Lives would be a start

@owenpope353 5 ай бұрын

Problem is, very few are prepared to own what they say. Good on you mate.

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

Yes, The idea that the government is going to fix things is just complete ruse. Cutting taxes that enrich government at everyone else's expense would be the best move, but they don't because they want the money. The stamp duty removal was part of the agreement which enabled the GST to be brought in but the state and territory governments never did it and the federal government didn't ensure they removed it because the Federal government would have been forced by the states to compensate them. There is no enforcement of laws or agreements when politicians are involved and they see loss of tax money is involved.

@vivianoosthuizen8990 Ай бұрын

@andrewkerr5296 Ай бұрын

@@vivianoosthuizen8990 It's more than just Foreign Investment that impacts prices As far as I'm concerned it's my land, I'll sell to whoever the eff I want

@ronfesta771 5 ай бұрын

Me thinketh heaps of affordable houses in Western Sydney and., sorry ladies no stone benchtop or........ensuite bathroom!@!?🤪😝😜🤣🤣🤣 P.S. How many., leapfrogs did we have to do, saving, investing, limited if any cafe late's let alone smashed avocados, working weekends and holidays to only be frowned upon by these mellinials (yes we will die quickly so you can get your 'no work'.....inheritance) for having the audacity to finally having a nice., mortgage free home in our.......senior years!@!?😝😜🤪😉

@MarkJames-zb9bg 4 ай бұрын

That ridiculous bit at the start was rubbish !

@mrspeaker6720 2 ай бұрын

Which bit?

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

This is Alan Kohler's opinion less than three years ago. - "Obviously house prices are not a matter of supply and demand " Yet in this presentation he says they are. Alan Kohler also said then . " With all the debt there is now the reserve bank is going to struggle to put up interest rates". First he contradicts himself and makes a very poor prediction about interest rates. Then displays his poor understanding of finances and the economy that leads him into such a situation of getting both things wrong. Lesson - Don't take Alan Kohler's prediction or solutions or predictions seriously. After all he is on the ABC and that should be enough indication of presenting shallow misleading stuff. .

@phoneticau 5 ай бұрын

Woke wont fix housing shortage

@glennrao7420 5 ай бұрын

Well said!!👏👏

@mrspeaker6720 2 ай бұрын

What are you talking about?

@Rob-fx2dw 4 ай бұрын

Alan Kohler - One of the worst financial reporters in the country who consistently passes on poorly researched ideas. He used to provide you tube videos on which one could comment but recently provides videos with no opportunity to comment due to his unwillingness to be able to come under scrutiny and reply with credible responses.

@mrspeaker6720 2 ай бұрын

Can you be more specific about his poorly researched ideas?

@Rob-fx2dw 2 ай бұрын

@@mrspeaker6720 For a start just go and look at the history of situations where governments have limited the prices or set the prices of products and what the outcome has been. Also see the history of what happens when such measures as taking measures that minimise investment in products results in higher prices or the products which is what abolition of negative gearing actually will do because it will reduce investment into housing. It is not something that will increase availability of housing but will reduce it result in in higher prices for housing. In respect to expectations the reality is expectations do not push up prices. Only the ability of prospective purchasers to actually pay will put up prices. The expectations are a figure of fantasy. Prices paid do not result from expectations neither do they cause inflation despite what the RBA says which is just another thing they get wrong like predicting no interest rises for few years only to find that they must cause them rise because they have misread the whole situation..