Advertisement
Earlier this week we saw Labor’s immigration minister, Andrew Giles, bald faced lie to Australians on the housing crisis:
On Friday, former Labor Treasurer Wayne Swan joined the liars, claiming that Australia’s housing crisis developed under the previous Coalition government, and that Labor is fixing it:
The housing shortage took a decade to develop and Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund was held up in the senate by the Greens and the Coalition.
The full text of this article is available to MacroBusiness subscribers
Cancel at any time through our billing provider, Stripe
About the author
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.