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Despite government help, affordable housing is further out of reach for these Australians (www.sbs.com.au)
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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 4 points 2 months ago

It wasn't very long ago that Shorten lost an election on a progressive platform that would have reduced wealth inequality and housing price growth to some extent.

Labor went to this election with the 5% deposit scheme, and the Liberals had some other demand side measure like tax deductible interest or something.

While I understand that you personally support more progressive measures, those policies just haven't been popular with the Australian public generally.