Probably safe to assume that by housing affordability he means affordability of mansions and by cutting red tape he's referring to getting rid of regulations stopping him from sucking up whats left of the Murray Darling..

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[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is our population really dumb enough to believe this walking cesspit?

The party who kicked off the housing crisis under Howard by: Bringing in the CGT discount. Ramping up immigration to then record levels. Handing out first home buyers grants.

Is now somehow going to unfuck things? Ha! Their donors will not allow it.

My prediction is he will look at allowing first home buyers to use their super for housing. All the while repeating lies that he is helping address affordability.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

He might offer something that looks like quick relief to get some votes and then walk it back to something his big donors want. Hopefully the Australian voters will have long memories on this.

That said .. he and a bunch of liberals are still getting voted in, so there are clearly electorates out there with more than half their constituents who think the Coalition are not a bunch of incompetent slimeballs. I don't want to get into backing a team, Labor are making some shit decisions, but I don't see the Coalition roster changing much and the scale of the corruption during the Howard, Abbott and Morrison years is wild. Their goals during those times were clearly focused on division and fucking over the little guy in favour of the big end of town. Until their focus at least changes to a more socially progressive take on the term "Liberal" they certainly won't be getting my vote.

Currently I think the only benefit of them is that if you preference them immediately after Labor they serve as a good vote-sink to protect against the minor RWNJ parties from getting any votes.