Bowen quadruples down on housing reforms

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Via the ABC this morning comes Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen:

“What we’re doing is reforming unsustainable, unfair concessions and loopholes in the system. We make no apology for that, it’s the right policy.””I say to your listeners, if they feel very strongly about this, if they fee that ths is something which should impact on their vote, they are of course perfectly entitled to vote against us,” he said.

“What we’re doing is reforming unsustainable, unfair concessions and loopholes in the system. We make no apology for that, it’s the right policy”
“It’s necessary to invest more in schools and hospitals, to deliver bigger personal income tax cuts.”

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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.