Housing as expensive as California is killing the major parties in the bush

When Liberal Party founder Robert Menzies forged the Liberal Party during the Second World War, he placed a heavy emphasis on home ownership and a stake in society.

At the time Menzies did a series of radio addresses to the Australian public, one of which ‘The Forgotten People’ would become legendary.

In them he would extol the virtues of home ownership, of Australians being able to earn a stake in society and how hard work could be a pathway to a prosperous life.