Fake Greens cry about rents as they pump immigration

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The fake Greens are at it again, doubling down on its demand that the federal government freeze rents for two years to ease Australia’s rental crisis:

Parliamentary Library analysis, released by the political party this week, indicated renters across the country combined would be $7.1 billion better off if rents had been frozen over the past 12 months.

That’s because, the data says, rents increased by 14 per cent nationwide in that time period.

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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.