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27/02/2026

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26/02/2026

David Norton, 2 minute read:

The Liberal Party's housing lies: a demolition

Let me tell you something about the Liberal Party and their so-called housing policy.

They wander around spruiking this fairy tale that if you tax something, you'll get less of it. Tax investors, they scream, and the whole housing market collapses. It's their holy writ. Their economic catechism.

Well, let's look at Victoria.

We taxed investors. We made it more expensive to hoard houses like they're Pokemon cards. And what happened? We're building 10,000 more homes than Sydney in 2025. Twenty thousand more than Brisbane. House prices flat as a tack. And forty per cent of the nation's first home buyer mortgages - forty per cent - are written in this state.

So much for their theory.

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But let's go deeper. Because the Liberals don't want to talk about 1999.

That was the year John Howard and Peter Costello took a housing market that was working - prices at three to four times average wages, ordinary people buying homes - and torched it for political gain.

They gave property investors a 50 per cent discount on capital gains tax. Not because anyone asked for it. Not because the economy needed it. Because they had wealthy donors who wanted a tax break, and they were happy to oblige.

Do you know what happened next?

Houses went from three times average wages to nine times. To eleven times in Sydney. A generation locked out. A whole cohort of young Australians told: sorry, the door's closed, the investors got there first.

That 50 per cent discount now costs the budget $22 billion a year. Ninety per cent of it goes to the top 20 per cent of earners. The top one per cent - the people the Liberals actually represent - get fifty-nine per cent of the benefit.

Let me repeat that: fifty-nine per cent of a $22 billion tax giveaway goes to the richest one per cent of Australians.

And the Liberals call themselves the party of working people.

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Now the economists are lining up. The Grattan Institute. The OECD - run by their own Mathias Cormann. Independent economists like Chris Richardson. All saying the same thing: cut that discount to 25 per cent. Level the playing field. Give first home buyers a chance.

And what do the Liberals say?

"It's a tax grab."

That's it. That's the sum total of their intellectual contribution to the biggest affordability crisis in a generation. "It's a tax grab."

Well, of course it's a tax grab. It's a tax grab on the wealthiest Australians who've been rorting the system for twenty-five years. It's a tax grab that says: maybe it's time the investors paid a little less and the kids trying to buy their first home paid a little less too.

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The property investors are squealing, of course. They always squeal. Fifty-one per cent say they might sell if the discount is reduced. Good. Let them sell. Let them put those houses on the market for actual families to buy. That's the point.

But here's the real comedy: the Liberals claim cutting the discount will reduce supply because investors won't sell. Then they claim it'll cause a fire sale that crashes the market. They'll run both arguments in the same sentence if you let them. Logic was never their strong suit.

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Victoria's shown what works. Less speculation, more construction. Flat prices, more first home buyers. Forty per cent of the nation's mortgages. It's not complicated. You just have to have the courage to stand up to the people who've been gaming the system.

The Liberal Party doesn't have that courage. They never did. They're captives - captives of the financial planners, the property spruikers, the negative gearers who've turned housing into a casino and left a generation standing outside with their noses pressed against the glass.

They'll tell you they care about first home buyers. They'll tell you at election time, with the sad eyes and the earnest promises. But when the moment comes - when the economists are united, when the evidence is clear, when a generation is begging for change - they'll do what they always do.

They'll protect the top one per cent.

They'll defend the $22 billion giveaway.

They'll keep the door slammed shut.

And they'll call it principle.

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The choice is simple. You can keep the 1999 tax giveaway that broke the housing market. Or you can give a generation of Australians a chance. You can't do both. And anyone who tells you different is either a fool or a Liberal Party donor.

Probably both.

25/02/2026

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25/02/2026

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19/02/2026

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18/02/2026

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02/09/2025

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