The tragicomedy of a young SBS funnyman’s attack on Dick Smith

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Check this out from SBS’s The Feed:

Not funny. Sad. Here’s what Dick Smith has had to say about the SBS attacks on him:

And, most ironically, the launch of his recent report into the role that population growth is playing in inflating away the fulfillment of Australian youth’s most basic need: a roof over their heads:

No competent analyst (or comedian) can ignore the current economic impact that extreme population growth is having on wages, living standards, house prices, debt levels and corporate profits in Australia today.

It is vital to discriminate between this discussion and other biased immigration debates that seek to denigrate multiculturism.

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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.