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Never underestimate a blog. If you did, you would miss that the next Australian general election will be contested over, and settled by, two policies that were produced by a blog. The same one, actually. MB.
In the Left corner we are going to have the Labor Party campaigning on housing affordability via its negative gearing reform agenda.
In the Right corner we are going to have the Liberal Party campaigning on housing affordability via its lower immigration and reform agenda.
Victory!
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This has even contest written all over it and if Labor has any brains at all it will get ahead of it and cut immigration now.
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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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