Great interview as always, Szepsy. I want your audience to continually grow here in Australia, and as it does I hope the following observation will help.
The episode title ‘Don’t F*** It Up, Australia’ evokes a national conversation. You and Allegra Spender both spoke of federal laws, tax codes, and Australians, but illustrated much of the chat by naming Sydney suburbs and NSW towns which makes it feel like you’re mostly speaking to Sydneysiders. It’s totally fair enough given you’re both from Sydney.
My suggestion for future interviews regarding federal politics would be to prepare examples outside of Sydney to illustrate some of your questions/ points.
Allegra Spender briefly mentions Canberra, a rail project in Melbourne, and speaking to a rural Victorian MP, and as a Victorian I felt more included in the conversation when Victoria was mentioned.
I’m not accusing you of parochialism, it’s more an aesthetic preference. The conversation would have felt more wide ranging and inclusive if locations from other states/ territories featured just as much as NSW.
Thanks Josh. Allegra such an intelligent, broadly experienced and educated politician. Just too few others able to verbalise their position. Just a plea from someone born in 1960, supposedly a boomer, more fitting with generation Jones. Some of us;have not inherited; have supported themselves through education; thanks to Keating’s “recession we had to have” could not obtain a mortgage, could not get a loan to buy into a business so left the country; did not have the full super scheme to fall back onto; fortunately were successful on the other side of the world and returned. Yes, now own their own home. But so sick of the bleating victim mentality. Yes, have children in their 20s and 30s. It’s tough. But look to solutions, not bleating blame. It is multifactorial and requires many aspects to assist and alleviate but stop bleating. Not all boomers sit in their undeserved palace.
In America, there has been a considerable move away from New York and California because of policy failures in those states. Australia seems to be doing the opposite. All the focus is on Sydney and Melbourne. I was surprised living in Brisbane that basically the entire area outside of the CBD was suburbia, lightly populated. There is a ton of room to develop a sleepy town like Brisbane without overdoing it. The only place in Australia that struck me as overdeveloped was the Gold Coast.
I was also surprised at the disdain that most Australians showed for the idea of living in Tasmania, or in more moderate "regional" areas. I'm sure the economics are important but it's also about culture. Americans commonly display affiliation to their state, their region, their city. It's not just California and New York and Texas (which is what Aussies think America is). Greenville SC is a cool place to live. So is Chattanooga TN. So is Columbus OH. There's probably room to put more people in Perth or Townsville or Darwin, if people really wanted to live in those places.
That was positive and reassuring in a many ways. Shorten’s failed election policy from memory was to retain negative gearing on future new builds, but close it on speculation in existing housing. Would like to hear Allegra or Peter Tulip speak to this. People vote against their best interests so voters dreaming of being a landlord didn’t want the speculation in existing housing closed to them, while those that have availed themselves were unaffected. Having a nation of landlords actually does produce an ugly culture? particularly if they haven’t materially built something. Peter proposed that corporate landlords are preferable to individual landlords. Death duties would be death sentence if proposed by an Australian politician but are there tax payer subsidised benefits that simply protect a massive nest egg inheritance for some of the following generation, people who will claim they built all themselves…… relaxing heritage development laws may just open the door to people building the biggest fuck off the neighbours house they can possibly build. So laws would require nuances. But massive potential in Sydney for increased density in former upper middle suburbs, upper North Shore and early 20th century middle ring. You could negatively gear the dwelling you built over the ugly swimming pool or tennis court or garden you’re actually bored by. Retaining walkable suburbs also an issue, nothing kills a street like concrete aprons and facades of garage doors.
Great interview as always, Szepsy. I want your audience to continually grow here in Australia, and as it does I hope the following observation will help.
The episode title ‘Don’t F*** It Up, Australia’ evokes a national conversation. You and Allegra Spender both spoke of federal laws, tax codes, and Australians, but illustrated much of the chat by naming Sydney suburbs and NSW towns which makes it feel like you’re mostly speaking to Sydneysiders. It’s totally fair enough given you’re both from Sydney.
My suggestion for future interviews regarding federal politics would be to prepare examples outside of Sydney to illustrate some of your questions/ points.
Allegra Spender briefly mentions Canberra, a rail project in Melbourne, and speaking to a rural Victorian MP, and as a Victorian I felt more included in the conversation when Victoria was mentioned.
I’m not accusing you of parochialism, it’s more an aesthetic preference. The conversation would have felt more wide ranging and inclusive if locations from other states/ territories featured just as much as NSW.
Thanks Josh. Allegra such an intelligent, broadly experienced and educated politician. Just too few others able to verbalise their position. Just a plea from someone born in 1960, supposedly a boomer, more fitting with generation Jones. Some of us;have not inherited; have supported themselves through education; thanks to Keating’s “recession we had to have” could not obtain a mortgage, could not get a loan to buy into a business so left the country; did not have the full super scheme to fall back onto; fortunately were successful on the other side of the world and returned. Yes, now own their own home. But so sick of the bleating victim mentality. Yes, have children in their 20s and 30s. It’s tough. But look to solutions, not bleating blame. It is multifactorial and requires many aspects to assist and alleviate but stop bleating. Not all boomers sit in their undeserved palace.
In America, there has been a considerable move away from New York and California because of policy failures in those states. Australia seems to be doing the opposite. All the focus is on Sydney and Melbourne. I was surprised living in Brisbane that basically the entire area outside of the CBD was suburbia, lightly populated. There is a ton of room to develop a sleepy town like Brisbane without overdoing it. The only place in Australia that struck me as overdeveloped was the Gold Coast.
I was also surprised at the disdain that most Australians showed for the idea of living in Tasmania, or in more moderate "regional" areas. I'm sure the economics are important but it's also about culture. Americans commonly display affiliation to their state, their region, their city. It's not just California and New York and Texas (which is what Aussies think America is). Greenville SC is a cool place to live. So is Chattanooga TN. So is Columbus OH. There's probably room to put more people in Perth or Townsville or Darwin, if people really wanted to live in those places.
That was positive and reassuring in a many ways. Shorten’s failed election policy from memory was to retain negative gearing on future new builds, but close it on speculation in existing housing. Would like to hear Allegra or Peter Tulip speak to this. People vote against their best interests so voters dreaming of being a landlord didn’t want the speculation in existing housing closed to them, while those that have availed themselves were unaffected. Having a nation of landlords actually does produce an ugly culture? particularly if they haven’t materially built something. Peter proposed that corporate landlords are preferable to individual landlords. Death duties would be death sentence if proposed by an Australian politician but are there tax payer subsidised benefits that simply protect a massive nest egg inheritance for some of the following generation, people who will claim they built all themselves…… relaxing heritage development laws may just open the door to people building the biggest fuck off the neighbours house they can possibly build. So laws would require nuances. But massive potential in Sydney for increased density in former upper middle suburbs, upper North Shore and early 20th century middle ring. You could negatively gear the dwelling you built over the ugly swimming pool or tennis court or garden you’re actually bored by. Retaining walkable suburbs also an issue, nothing kills a street like concrete aprons and facades of garage doors.