Anyone surprised?
In the meantime, The Greens want to “drive a hard bargain with Labor before committing to pass the measures through parliament”… and say “the changes for property investment were little more than “tinkering around the edges” and as much as 95% of the benefits of the existing rules would remain”.
The Greens need to stop this ‘hard bargain’ stance of theirs. It has cost us progress on important matters in the past and would cost us progress on this topic now.
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien” --Voltaire. In english: ‘The best is the enemy of good’. Don’t prevent progress in the direction everyone needs in pursuit of the perfection up front. You won’t get perfection and you styme any progress in its pursuit.
I dunno, equally the government should negotiate better and stop doing this “our way or the highway” style stuff where they act like good governance is tyranny of the average preference default.
The greens have the same duty to their voters labor has to theirs, the government needs to be willing to negotate and can’t just hold the left hostage by saying “either rubber stamp this or we make it more right wing”.
fr, “my way or the highway” is not a political stance we need
There are going to be a lot of people who go quiet in a few months when the rental market doesn’t suddenly destroy itself, and they realise they can’t simply double rent 😂
