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Won’t find a kind word from me about specufestors. But I am now wondering if we need hate speech laws to protect them against the Greens.
Victorian landlords would need a license to rent out their homes under a new policy call from the state’s Greens party as an election looms.
The party noted it would give licensed landlords three strikes before they would be effectively evicted from the state’s landlord pool, and banned from renting out homes as a bid to further crack down on ‘dodgy landlords’ and to make rentals more affordable.
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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.
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