Poll: Should pollies disclose negatively geared property?

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There’s an online survey running over at Easy Poll asking whether “members of the Australian House of Representatives and Senate should be forced to disclose whether they own a negatively geared property?”.

The survey comes in the wake of revelations that Australia’s federal members of parliament hold a combined $300 million property portfolio, creating clear conflicts in relation to housing policy.

Go on, make your views known. The survey can be accessed here.

About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.