Because wages are inadequate and passive wealth or capital inheritance are the new pathway to upward social mobility. It’s not that I think most people think like this (yet), but news articles are mostly written by people from wealth now, because who can live on a journalist wage these days.
I agree with your views on the labor party, but I can’t see the opposition being elected. There are so many people who still support labor. Everything they do is just image management (and not particular well, given the Herzog invitation). But lots of people still think they are supportive of affordable housing. They propose the HAFF, then the housing minister a couple of years later says she doesn’t want house prices to go down. Your view of the party will depend on which media you’ve been exposed to. In 2022 albo said rent caps were “pixie dust”. I don’t think this statement will age very well, but that horse has bolted.
That’s what I thought Albo’s strategy was. Make the opposition irrelevent and snatch their voters. He doesn’t seem to make any decisions based on principles. He was campaigning on raising centrelink payments to a dignified level prior to his first term. That never happened.
Very good points. I withdraw my comment as it was definitely an overreach.