Fake Green holds town hall meeting for fake housing solutions

Wednesday 27 September 2023

As we know, Australia’s rental vacancy rate is the tightest on record, which is driving strong rental price inflation across the capital cities.

Source: Shane Oliver (chief economist at AMP)

The primary driver is obvious: the Albanese Government’s unprecedented immigration deluge, which delivered a record 454,000 net overseas migrants in the year to March:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.