There is nothing worse than a specufestor politician

Tuesday 27 June 2023

Crikey finally did something worthwhile by compiling this list of Canberra specufestors’ crocodile tears.

Liberal MP Karen Andrews (seven properties)

So housing on the Gold Coast is extraordinarily difficult at the moment. Prices skyrocketed and they started to do that during COVID. And some would say that really caused the change here on the coast when people from the southern states chose to buy site unseen and move up to the Gold Coast … So I’m looking for solutions to provide affordable, reasonable housing for individuals and families here on the coast.

Doorstop, April 4 2023

Labor Senator Deborah O’Neill (five properties)

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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.