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Is Sydney housing affordability the real issue, or is an out of control sense of entitlement?
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Posted by Suseonline, Monday, 15 June 2015 8:19:08 PM
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Dear Suse,
South Australia's Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has begun a debate about whether the parliamentarisn's perks should be abolished. It will be interesting to see if this gets very far. As I've cited on another discussion of the housing affordability issue - collectively Australia's parliamentarians belong to a class of wealthy landlords - therefore it should not come as a surprise that they're quite happy with the current housing prices designed to drive up property prices, or that they seem to care so little regarding the problems of renters. Joe Hockey's living arrangements while in Canberra also reveals a major public policy issue that according to many commentators deserves far more scrutiny: the conflict of interest Australian politicians face when it comes to housing policy. Here's another interesting link: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-are-the-expenses-now-hands-out-of-the-cookie-jar-20131011-2vdvi.html Posted by Foxy, Monday, 15 June 2015 11:16:51 PM
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Dear Suse,
My apologies - I gave you the wrong link. Here's the right one: http://newmatilda.com/2015/06/11/joe-hockey-belongs-class-wealthy-landlords-course-hes-untroubled-housing-affordability Posted by Foxy, Monday, 15 June 2015 11:25:19 PM
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Well foxy, I for one hope that Senator Xenophon is able to do something about getting rid of these expensive politician perks that the taxpayer provides.
No wonder these multiple property owning pollies are happy with high housing prices and rents! Posted by Suseonline, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 12:25:50 AM
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I find it amusing how so many are so quick to jump all over the pollies, yet these same people think nothing of handing over cash to some market stall owner knowing full well that they are avoiding the GST.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. As for pollies renting their spous's houses, so long as it's an arms length trisection and it's within the price range of other houses then I see no problem, however I am surprised that pollies would be stupid enough to place themselves in such a position Posted by rehctub, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 9:33:14 AM
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Dear Suse,
It will be interesting to see how far the Senator gets. Dear Rec, The Parliamentarians perks run into the hundreds of thousands in addition to their well-paid jobs and other benefits. There's no comparison to what they're actually rorting. The politicians are supposed to serve the people after all - not rort the system. And it is very difficult to stop - as the system is self-regulated. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-are-the-expenses-row-hands-out-of-the-cookie-jar-20131011-2vdvi.html Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 10:50:00 AM
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"Reform is long overdue by any measure but Abbott is digging in. He was a young politician when the Howard government was rocked by the travel rorts scandal and saw close hand how it destablised the team.
Abbott wants to kill the issue and carry on. Both major parties have embarrassing entitlement breaches yet to be fully ventilated."
It seems that pollies from all sides of the political landscape are milking the system for all that it is worth.
But maybe that is just human nature, in that if they are 'entitled' to all those perks, then why not?
I agree that these perks need to be trimmed somewhat, in this current 'budget emergency' that is so bad that pensioners, disabled and the sick are told their previous 'benefits' are being cut back for the good of the country!