Ah yes, pretending to care:
The Albanese government has offered to guarantee at least $500 million a year for housing as a compromise to get its housing Australia future fund (HAFF) legislation through the Senate, the ABC reports. What is the HAFF? It’s a $10 billion fund we’d invest, with all the returns parlayed into creating more social and affordable housing from 2024-25. Originally it had a $500 million spending cap, but Housing Minister Julie Collins said we can think of it as a floor instead — even if the fund makes no money. The crossbench was like, we’re listening, but the Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather said his party will vote no. Half a billion dollars in 12 months’ time after a $4.2 billion budget surplus while we languish through the worst housing crisis we’ve seen in a generation? It’s “genuinely shocking” that this is Labor’s best offer, the MP said.
What is shocking is that this is shocking to anybody. The Greens want to double the fund which is great except for two small problems:
- At double, the fund is pathetically small. It will build a grand total of 60k dwellings over five years. We need one million just to stop the shortage from getting worse.
- The Greens want to lift immigration so that wipes out the doubling anyway,
This is a pantomime of caring. It is pissing on Australian youth while competing over who can claim loudest that it is raining.
This is a Fake Greens MP fake fighting a Fake Labor PM over fake policy to dupe children.
It is treachery.
