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We’ve also got to stop calling them “landlords” because it’s not the Middle Ages any more. They’re housing service providers and need to be reminded that they’re a service industry that has standards to meet. FFS, they even whinged about Victoria’s VERY minimal standards.
We also need to change “property” and “housing” to “home”, somehow, and remind these dimwits that it’s not an abstract transaction, and people’s actual homes.
This idea from Berlin might be fun for Australia. twitter.com/FeargusOSull/s…
All investment and rental properties in Australia to be purchased by the government, with the owners paid what the property was valued at on or before 30 June 2004 plus CPI. Yes, CPI not idiot real estate bubble prices. Who’s with me?
I have further proposals for reform, which I shall outline in due course. For starters, though, think of a Jeep Cherokee crossed with a Viking longship burial, but without the death pre-requisite, every Saturday at Balmoral Beach.
As a concession to Aussie “battler” families on a combined income above the median but below $120,000 per annum, two family members will be permitted to keep one of their thumbs each, drawn by lot.
All of the thumbs so obtained are to be sun-dried, then strung on a length of braided silver for Penny Wong to wear as a permanent symbol of office.
That’s probably enough for Day One.
