We are all Australians here and we have grown up with the Australian dream – a home among the gumtrees, a place to put our feet up at the end of the working day, to raise the kids and be together as a family.
But this Labor Government is demolishing the Australian dream.
With the barely survivable cost of living, home ownership is not the Australian dream, but a pipe dream, and Labor’s budget measures have further thrown the housing sector into chaos.
Now the many, many, many Australians who can’t afford to buy and who need to rent are caught in the middle of the housing crisis. There are fewer homes, higher rents and landlords who have absolutely lost their confidence in the market.
Australia’s biggest rental property manager Ray White says investors will have to raise rents by about 30 percent to cover their losses. Mortgage applications are down. Housing availability is down.
And what does this look like in the real world outside of Labor’s own policy machine? It looks like a family in Bourke who can’t afford to pay their rent. It looks like a couple in Narrabri who must move to save money towards the impossible dream of owning their own home. It looks like a single mother who cannot find anywhere affordable enough to put a roof over her children’s heads.
Housing should be a simple right in Australia and, under this government, a home among the gum trees is looking more like a home out on the streets.