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12 August 2026

Isn’t it amazing what a policy that actually tackles the cause of outrageous house prices can do? | Grogonomics

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Source reporting: Guardian Australia Politics

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Isn’t it amazing what a policy that actually tackles the cause of outrageous house prices can do? | Grogonomics

Labor has shown what a government can do to improve housing affordability, exposing how pathetic previous attempts had been They stopped pretending there was another way. For years, politicians liked to talk about how, if incomes rise faster than house prices, housing becomes more “affordable”.

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