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68. Economist Dr Cameron Murray - Scrapping Super, Affordable Housing, Inflation and Political Corruption

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How to Get a Crisis Out of Australia's System

I've written another report called Housemate which is essentially my conjoined word policy proposal, JobKeeper, JobSeeker, Housemate. It's my proposal for Australia to copy Singapore's system. And I sort of run the numbers on it and say, look, it's not going to cost that much because we already have 66% of people's homeowners. We're at 33% renters. Only a small fraction of renters will buy in to the public option each year. Many will still pick the private option. So, you know, the scheme in Australia would be relatively small, but as a relief valve for the private renters, it would be very effective, right? Because if

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