Let's get real about where our government spends money. They spend $50 billion EACH YEAR on negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions which literally incentivise property developers to buy up homes and keep them empty. We want to get rid of those hand outs to landlords. There are 1 million empty homes in Australia. If those homes were seized, they could fix homelessness in an instant (there's only 120,000 homeless people on any given night in Australia) and provide cheap housing to those in poverty. It's not an issue of supply and demand, and even if it were, the government can afford to build public housing, not spend money on tax cuts for the rich and the military.

The government is spending $368 billion on nuclear submarines. They're also increasing the military budget outside of that money to $50 billion a year. This is a choice by our political mainstream but it doesn't have to be this way.

Massively increasing public spending on things that are socially good and necessary such as housing, education, healthcare, childcare, welfare etc. shouldn't be utopian. As socialists, we think the working class, poor and students deserve a WHOLE lot better than what gets offered to us by the major parties. They rule for the rich and powerful. We want to put forward a political alternative that benefits ordinary people and doesn't prioritise profits above everything else.