At Loon Pond central:
Coalition frontbencher Angus Taylor says the mocking of a western Sydney family home by Sam Dastyari is “tasteless” and a “shocking indictment on the state of the modern Labor Party”.
Senator Dastyari, a NSW senator and deputy opposition whip in the Senate, posted a Facebook video on the weekend that shows him inspecting $1 million homes in the northwestern Sydney suburbs of Ryde, Northmead and Toongabbie.
“This is what’s called a ‘classic house’ in the suburb of Ryde, immaculately kept as it’s been told, on one of the busiest roads of Sydney to boot,” Senator Dastyari says in the video.
“And you know if it’s got security shutters you’re onto a good thing.”
Leanne Carabetta, the owner of the Ryde property featured, which sold for $1.3 million at auction on Saturday, has labelled him a “snob” and said she had taken “great offence” at his comment about her home.
And Caroline Overington:
But does he have to mock people’s homes to make his point?
In the first scene, Sam is shown standing in front of a house he clearly regards as a bit of a dump. “This is what a million dollars in Sydney will buy you,’’ he says, with scorn.
“This is what’s called a classic house … (It’s) on one of the busiest roads, and you know if it’s got security shutters, you’re onto a good thing.’’
Call me old-fashioned, but I think it’s rude to mock other people’s houses. That house was somebody’s home. A place where a family may well have raised their kids, and very proudly, too.
Not only is it hunky dory to denude an entire generation of having a roof over their heads but it’s offensive to point it out.
