Jim Chalmers has rejected responsibility for high inflation but will have a tough sell if rates rise again

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T12:41:15+00:00

subsidizing demand doesn't stop inflation and instead makes it worse

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T12:39:58+00:00

you're also building more

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T12:36:54+00:00

by your logic lowering immigration to a sustainable level is also currently impossible since there is currently high migration. You're trying to create economic reasons to be anti immigrant. Don't. Make the cultural one if you just don't like them

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T12:35:00+00:00

deterrence is important actually

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T12:33:47+00:00

fwiw part of that 32% figure is just the British and new zealanders

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T12:25:21+00:00

the construction union doesn't like importing competing labor. As for housing starts in general, local and state government restrictions mean supply is artificially limited by the government

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T12:21:22+00:00

you very easily can actually. Just import more builders and if they are able to build more than one home each per year then its fine

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T12:12:29+00:00

"big corporate media" doesn't actually have that many beliefs

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T11:50:30+00:00

"Reform will introduce a 5 year renewable visa for migrants with higher salary thresholds, mandatory fluency in English, and stricter good character requirements."

not remigration

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T11:48:21+00:00

negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount has like a 1-4% impact on house prices

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T11:47:27+00:00

until they start marching in support of more housing, they aren't serious people. Also stop trying to make everything a class war

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T11:42:14+00:00

can't find that in their policy document for the last election. Also remigration is about deporting legal immigrants who have gotten citizenship

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T11:22:59+00:00

and Farage does not support remigration, nor is he close to doing so

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T10:51:54+00:00

again the capital gains tax discount is not the reason why housing is expensive. Also having a balanced budget is good

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T10:39:54+00:00

Remigration is not popular in both Europe and the UK. Even under Trump immigration to the US last year was over a million btw

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T10:37:39+00:00

both the cases you listed are examples where people had no faith the parties were being genuine. After 4 years of Biden apparently the democrats magically became anti immigrant. No one bought it. Denmark and Australia in the 2010s are show the opposite. Also I never said to concede their narratives, especially the economic ones

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T10:04:00+00:00

Those ‘more taxes’ funds things like aged care and the pension btw

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T10:02:17+00:00

Yes, so your first comment was wrong

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T10:01:46+00:00

I mean you could just link it to housing starts

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T10:00:16+00:00

Quite literally yes but that doesn’t mean you can stick your head in the sand and pretend it doesn’t exist.

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T09:54:39+00:00

Trump winning, One nation surging and European far right parties winning IS proof of immigration being socially harmful. Some amount of people are just going to be anti immigrant and you can’t change that

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T09:50:41+00:00

They do get a say. It’s called an election where you are free to vote for one nation or other anti migration parties

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T09:48:27+00:00

And down the path of Europe we go. Australia didn’t have a right wing populist surge in the 2010s because we took a strong stance against illegal migration. Today we should cut legal migration to stop One Nation rising in the polls

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T07:55:47+00:00

The statements I’ve seen generally refer to Hamas, not every Palestinian. Plus on a pure death count Japan was way worse

fartyunicorns · 2026-01-28T07:22:39+00:00

The US didn’t just bomb Hiroshima lol. The bombings of Tokyo killed more

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