For years, the property lobby and Coalition has spent huge sums of money and political capital fighting Labor’s negative gearing reforms, launching scare campaign after scare campaign around prices, rents and the economy.
And yet, according to Robert Gottlebsen (‘Gotti’), the electorate has failed to take the bait and has seen the scare campaign for what it was: blatant rent-seeking by vested interests more concerned with lining their own pockets than the national good. From The Australian: