ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
There are cracks in the economy this week that this government, and every government since the second Gorton ministry, is attempting to fill with human spakfilla.
And this spakfilla needs a place to live.
Figures released this week have outlined that NSW, the nation's most populous state, is lagging far behind in its housing targets. This means that the price of cracks goes up because there is too much spakfilla. When this happens, it creates problems for big government, who need more spakfilla to tax so they can spend it on things like public servants and private consulting firms to do the job of the public servants, only in a cheaper and less effective way.
Today in Sydney, the largest open air sewer in the Southern Hemisphere, full of a rat-like people who exist in a writhing pit of neo-liberal muck, neatly classed into their respective rat caste by where they went to school and what postcode they grew up in, the NSW Premier was harangued by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Housing Minister Clare O'Neil.
Fresh from his own clandestine meetings with billionaires Anthony Pratt, who looks weird, and developer Felix Lee. Lee, according to AFR's Rear Window, is prepared to donate a measly $1m to Labor if Albanese showed up at his Point Piper gaff.
"Chris," said Albo.
"Where are the apartments? Where am I going to put all these new Australians? Where am I going to put Millennials who have poor parents? Ones that'll only inherit bills? Huh? Chris, you're making my life very hard."
O'Neil then, according to sources, tapper her oversized Longchamp tote in a menacing fashion.
"It would be a shame if you missed your targets. You look like you enjoy having kneecaps," said the Minister.
"Do we have an understanding?"
Sources close to the NSW Premier said he left the meeting feeling a bit on edge and spent the rest of the car ride back to Macquarie Street looking for public golf courses and under-utilised Crown land on Google Maps.
"Royal Randwick? That could be New Zetland, right? Hmmm. I don't want to sound like a NIMBY but maybe we should just put them all somewhere else?"
More to come.
