The Truth About Populism
Populism bedevils the Right far more than those on the progressive side of things. The truth about populism is that it offers up easily digestible faux answers to much more complex issues. Take a political party like One Nation, which blames the immigrant for much of Australia’s economic problems. Especially, those immigrants with the wrong coloured skin. The housing crisis is not at its core about a too big population lacking the homes to house them. Rather, there have been a number of changes in how Australians want to live domestically, since the pandemic. In addition, rental stocks have been hard hit by a shift to short term holiday rentals via online platforms. Combine this with the economic thrust of investor led inflation pumping up house prices like there is no tomorrow. Unaffordability for millions of Australians has been the result over decades of this runaway train.
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