ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has gone to great lengths this week to showcase how he too is impacted by the housing crisis, most notably by wheeling his son out to speak of the hardships of trying to get ahead.
It comes after various, nefarious news outlets have published details recently of the vast wealth that Mr Dutton has generated by speculating on property. Millions of other Australians have done the same.
However, if what Mr Dutton is saying is true, that he’s denying his son a leg up when he needs it most, is cold-hearted and totally unAustralian.
You don’t have to be a sanctimonious leftoid with rooted rental ledger and a rescue dog to understand that being in a position to help your child into secure housing is literally the Australian Dream. It’s the modern Australian dream.
To do it on your own, from renting a shitbox to buying a shitbox to duplex to concrete-cancer-riddled townhouse to freestanding house, all on your own, in a white-collar job, is not possible anymore. People have to die or your have to get lucky or you need to be in business. That’s it.
It’s just not possible to have what previous generations have had. There are millions and millions and millions more Australians and we don’t have the corresponding amount of houses. Which means some people, who owned them ages ago, are rich and the people who didn’t have them have to eat shit and die. The goalposts aren’t going to move now so either get used to the rules or don’t.
Which is why, when you have the capacity to help, and you don’t, makes you weird. People know that. It’s not just about money. It’s much, much more than money.
It’s my dream, it’s the dream of millions of other Australians around the country, to make sure my children don’t have to suffer anything they don’t have to and the best way to make sure they’re safe is to make sure they have secure housing. So much rot in our society comes back to that.
