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Expert: Matt Barrie - Why house prices are the cause of today's cost of living crisis

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The Cost of Living in the United States

Cafes can't find workers because despite paying the highest casual wages in the world, locals can't make at work with the cost of living. So we import people and trick them for a while to work in a cafe before they realize that they can't afford a day that. And it's because of land costs, right? You had this quote that I don't want to read out because I thought it was so good from your speech. No, there's only one answer, which is migration. That's the only answer. We're bringing in a Canberra sized population every year. On the supply side, we've been gangbusters since the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and building apartment blocks

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