#alankohler — Public Fediverse posts
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#AlanKohler is on board with Govt doing the job of building #SocialHousing as it cuts through a number of walls that seem intent on making sure Australia will never have enough houses to meet the needs of its population at an affordable cost/price.
“Like the NDIS (and child care), housing affordability is unsustainable and can't be left to be a by-product of monetary policy, the productivity and profitability of the building industry and the zoning vagaries of local councils.
And as with the NDIS (and child care), intergenerational fairness requires a radical solution: the government could do worse than going back to building some houses.” (Source: ABC News)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-11/federal-budget-housing-build-more-homes/106663204
#HousingCrisis #AusPol #StateCapture #SocialHousing #TaxReform #Productivity #Profits #Employment #Tradies
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The government has missed one idea to get housing back on track
By Alan KohlerIf it's serious about improving intergenerational fairness and housing affordability in this week's budget, perhaps the federal government should just build some houses.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-11/federal-budget-housing-build-more-homes/106663204
#HousingPolicy #Budget #HousingConstructionIndustry #AlanKohler
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@troberts I generally find #AlanKohler informative, quirky and entertaining on economics. But find him enthusiastically ignorant on AI. Unfortunately people will trust him on AI as they have trusted him on economics. At least today he admitted “the technology is way above my pay grade”. #AUSEcon
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The genAI boosting continues.
Reads more and more hysterical and fear based to me.
ABC publishing industry propaganda.
These garbage machines are still telling me "A" on one simple search and "A prime" on minimally altered search terms..
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My kind of party conversation
#ChrisKohler #AlanKohler #MarkHumphries #AusFinance #Auspol -
Greg Jericho (in The Guardian) concludes with:
“Right now, the government is choosing to deliver $50bn a year to the richest 10% of Australians for no real, discernible public good that benefits the nation. Maybe that deserves a bit more attention than we give predictions of budget estimates which will soon be forgotten and likely be wrong.”
Come on #AlboPM what are you waiting for? Christmas?
I guess I have now confessed my deep regards for #GregJericho’s economic nous. Ah well, he deserves it. He is in the same basket as #AlanKohler in good company.