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@pascalo
Speaking of Oz: The current pile on is "Mass immigration caused the rental crisis".
Followed by all the racists coming out of the woods venting about how there aren't even any aussie born children in their kid's school anymore, and so on. After decades of gamifying property ownership and rewarding it with negative gearing, combined with no investment in infrastructure or planning or anything. It's a fucking joke.
Don't get me wrong, the current rental crisis is real. But blaming immigrants for it is just the dumbest laziest way to contextualise it.
Also a joke to pin this on the current government, as if this stuff was caused within the last 6 months.