Harry Triguboff gaslights on housing crisis

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For decades, billionaire Meriton founder ‘Highrise’ Harry Triguboff has persuaded politicians to implement policies favourable to his financial interests, including mass immigration.

In 2006, Triguboff claimed that Sydney’s population needed to reach 20 million by 2050. In 2010, Triguboff argued that Australia’s population needed to increase to 100 million.

“I’d like to see 100 million, because I believe we will have many things to do here besides drilling holes and selling coal”, he said. “It will all have to be developed”.

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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.