Dear Joe
Please explain to the staff cleaners cooks receptionist at any motel in Canberra why they have lost there jobs or the boss can't pay more then 17.50 an hour,Because you and your mates are wroughting the system.
Dear Joe
Please explain the word morale to a bunch of school kids
Dear Joe
Please explain to people with no where to live (many thousands) why others need to have 15 houses
Dear Joe
Please explain how you intend on fixing this once great country
So far you have managed to double labours debt,kill business confidence,turn majority of people off your policies because they are so out of touch with reality,Kill any chance of mr/mrs average from owing a house 50-60k guys its not going to happen, Tying us to free trade agreements which will devastate this country.
BTW gratz on stopping the boats, are you ready to share with us how much you guys are wasting on using battleships to do this ?
AB

It is the compartmentalised thinking and slavish adherence to ideology that prevents leftists from acknowledging the obvious: that demand from continued large scale immigration forces up housing prices.

<To give our crystal ball a solid foundation, we asked CoreLogic RP Data for a statistical snapshot of prices and sales in all capital cities in February 2010. We also asked for comparative sale numbers and median sale prices from February 2015.

Hopefully, this five-year snapshot will reveal trends that help us forecast what lies ahead for Australia’s capital city housing markets.

[tables omitted]
According to Cameron Kusher, CoreLogic RP Data’s Senior Research Analyst, “the standout message” is that Sydney, and to a lesser degree Melbourne, has been the star performer over the past five years.

“All the others (capital cities) have been fairly muted,” Kusher says.

“One question people often ask is ‘why haven’t all the markets grown equally when recent interest rates cuts are national’?

“Well the reason we have seen such strong growth in Sydney and not in other markets is more because of overseas migration to Sydney, which has been fairly strong because of its job opportunities, because New South Wales’s migration away has been low since 2010 and also because there’s a shortfall in housing.>
http://tinyurl.com/pgthtrf

Add to that the necessarily ramped up taxes and council rates to provide the required infrasyructure for 200,000 new migrants a year. -Which is the equivalent of building five cities the size of Port Macquarie ANNUALLY.

Add again the cost to the Centrelink, Health costs (Medicare) and the direct and indirect costs associated with multiculturalism and it is easy to see why government reports say that young working Aussie couples are delaying and finally not having the children they planned for.

Young working Aussie couples are being discriminated against by taxes and user pays to support the 'Big Australia' and 'diversity-Australia-is-being-forced-to-have' to suit the cringing cultural elitism and anti-'white' hatred of the leftist 'Progressives'.

Dear Paul,

The following website is quite a revelation
of our Treasurer:

http://newmatilda.com/2015/06/11/joe-hockey-belongs-class-wealthy-landlords-course-hes-untroubled-housing-affordability

We're told that "As home prices have skyrocketed in recent
years more and more first home-buyers have been locked out
of the market..."

Now it seems that the Treasurer has added to his long list
of political gaffes - all first home buyers need is
"to get a good job that pays good money."

The treasurer is really out of touch - which has marked his
career to date. As we know having a good job is not
sufficient to gain a foot-hold in the hot housing markets.
Sydney's median house price is now above $910,000.
A median apartment is above $600,000 and the median
household income is still around $52,000.

Many 30 - somethings on above average wages we're told will
find the prospect of buying a home receding into the distance.
How many cleaners, baristas, or factory workers earn
enough to put down a deposit for a dwelling in this country
and that's not even mentioning the roughly 750,000 Aussies
who are looking for work.

The website is worth a read - for it discloses the fact
that Joe Hockey's Family Trust owns 4 houses, including a
stately pile in Hunters Hill that could be worth as much as
5.4 million with a combined household worth reportedly above
$10 million - Hockey and his merchant banker wife are well
and truly in the top one percent of Australian households.

Australians don't begrduge the rich making money - but they
can smell hypocrisy a mile away. It's all very well for Mr
Hockey to tell us that the "Age of entitlement is over,"
while he reaps all the benefits of entitlement for which he
did not work hard. He came from comfortable circumstances
and married well.

Thanks Foxy, it really makes no difference if it is Cocky Joe or The Mad Monk himself making these outrageous statements, they are simply digging a deeper political hole for themselves. A hole in which the Australian voter will one day bury them.
Conservatives like Hockey are totally absorbed by the concept of the "free market" and to hell with anything else. However there are certain norms within Australian society which are seen as sacrosanct, and above petty economic considerations, the right to a "fair go" for all is one, the right for all working people, regardless of where they reside, to at least be able to aspire to home ownership is one of those norms. Any politician who is dismissive of that aspiration does so at his or hers political peril. Like cigar smoking is bad for your bodily health, to be seen chomping on a big fat cigar and appearing to be uncaring and conceited at the same time, is bad for ones political health as well.

Paul1405, "I am a Sydney property millionaire, owning my own home and all"

You need to give the jealous Fox some tips.

Labor isn't interested. Least ways not the Labor Party of the career politicians like ex-union boss Willie Shorten. Latham was right,

<Former Labor leader Mark Latham slams Labor over gay marriage

FORMER Labor leader Mark Latham has slammed his party’s “obsession” with gay marriage saying it should focus on the nation’s “Struggle Streets” instead.

He told 3AW radio Bill Shorten’s private members bill to push for changes to the marriage act to allow same-sex couples to tie the knot, to be introduced into parliament on Monday, was nothing more than a symbolic gesture.

He said the biggest social issue facing Austalia was unemployment, drug use and homelessness in suburbs such as Mt Druitt which was the focus of the SBS documentary, Struggle Street.

“If you are interested in equality and social justice in Australia then what was the really big event in the month of May,” he said. “We had the Struggle Street documentary which revealed that in the nation’s public housing estate, most notably in Mt Druit people live in conditions that you wouldn’t wish upon your dogs. Absolute chaos, despair and hopelessness in their lives.

“And surely, you would have expected a serious national response from the party of social justice?
“We didn’t hear anything.
“They’re obsessed, instead, by gay marriage.”
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/gay-marriage/former-labor-leader-mark-latham-slams-labor-over-gay-marriage/story-fnizhakg-1227371979220

tbc..

contd..

Shorten who might also reflect on the tax burden on new house developments.

Because through federal taxes the taxpayer has to support a burgeoning victim industry and all of the large costs direct and indirect of multiculturalism.

At State and Local Government levels there are the high taxes and skyrocketing rates on homes, new and established, to provide infrastructure for the over-population in metropolitan cities like Sydney caused by over-zealous immigration.

State Premiers, examples being Labor's own Anna Bligh and Bib Carr were highly critical of the over-zealous immigration policies of Labor federal governments in particular, stating the obvious, that it was not sustainable.

So much too for the culturally elitist metropolitan liberals who direct the Greens too, who preach sustainability but favour Open Door immigration to 'solve' the world's over-population.

What maximum population do the Greens say Australia should have in 2015, 2016, 2017...2020, Paul1405?