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Patrick Gilligan
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If the Coalition looks cruel it is only because Labor built the system that lets them be. Australia is governed by continuity disguised as conflict. Two parties. One architecture #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The Coalition has no independent ideological engine. It only operates inside the limits Labor sets. Labor shapes the structure and the Coalition polishes the edges. Two hands building the same machine #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Every time the Coalition is blamed for structural harm you can trace the origin back to a Labor blueprint. The Coalition cannot go further than what Labor’s frameworks permit. That is our reality #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
There is nothing uniquely cruel about the Coalition. They just expand what Labor already put in place. If Labor built it the Coalition will run it. That is the real bipartisan continuity of Australia #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Australia’s political truth is simple. Labor writes the script and the Coalition performs it. The Coalition is not a radical force. It is the natural extension of Labor’s policy architecture #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 AM
People act like the Coalition invents new harm. They almost never do. They inherit frameworks Labor built and then push them a little further. Labor refuses to undo anything and the cycle continues #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The Coalition is only as harsh as Labor allows. Labor sets the rules and the Coalition operates inside them. Mutual obligations. Fair Work. GP rebate freeze. CGT distortions. It all starts with Labor #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The Coalition has never created a cruelty that Labor did not first design. Labor builds the architecture and the Coalition just tightens the screws. The system is bipartisan and the cruelty is shared #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Supply arguments fall apart when land value is rising faster than wages. Every extra build just floats on a rising tax-sheltered land tide. That’s not a market. That’s a trap #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Every new rental sits on land that’s already priced for speculation. That means rents start high and stay high. Supply won’t help until the land racket is broken #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Bricks don’t make rents high. Dirt does. Land prices are the floor, and that floor keeps rising because the system rewards sitting on it, not housing people with it #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
You can build all the rental homes you want but the rent won’t fall if every slab sits on land that just surged 8%. Rent follows land value. And land value is speculation on tax-free gains #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Housing prices won’t crash. Renting will. Investors churn. Vacancy sits at 1%. Renters collapse first. Workers follow. Then services break. Then the rich panic. Not a housing bubble. A worker collapse in disguise #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Half of investment rentals are held for about two years then sold. Tenants get churn. Landlords bank gains. That is why vacancy sticks near 1 percent even with new builds. New stock becomes new chips at the table #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Australia did not just catch a rental bug. The system pays investors to chase capital gains. Family home tax free. CGT discount for investors since 1999. Negative gearing. Result is speculation first and renting second #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Supply matters, but not on its own inside a tax regime that bids up land. If the cost base stays high, the minimum viable rent stays high. You cannot fix 1 percent vacancy while subsidising land speculation #auspol
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The idea that dumping net zero will “differentiate” the Liberals is delusional. Voters already saw Labor as stronger on climate even when Morrison backed net zero. They’re not closing a gap they’re confirming they’re fossil fuel zealots. That’s the only distinction #auspol
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
To repeal net zero, the Coalition must win the lower house (already unlikely), then either win a unicorn Senate majority or force a double dissolution on a wildly popular law dragging voters to the polls just to strip climate targets. It’s electoral sabotage, not policy #auspol
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Albanese rightly condemns masked Nazis as cowards but runs the most secretive government in modern history. Morrison was slammed for hiding ministries. Albo outdid him: redacting FOIs, dodging transparency, silencing scrutiny. He lectures the public, but governs like a spook #auspol
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Bowen giving Fortescue funds for green hydrogen isn’t a “contradiction” unless you’ve had amnesia since Howard. Fossil fuel subsidies hit $14b a year. Coalition never blinked. But help a renewables billionaire build clean energy and suddenly it’s corruption? #auspol
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Coalition MPs now attacking the under-16s social media ban after backing it and cheering Murdoch’s push reeks of desperation. You’re not winning teens who can’t vote, and parents aren’t fooled by the pivot. Who exactly is this for? Sky After Dark viewers? #auspol
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Coalition saw a bill helping grieving parents and thought: “How do we turn this into an abortion conspiracy?” No woman is getting pregnant, losing a child, and going through the trauma of a stillbirth just to game annual leave. This isn’t conservatism. Brain damage #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The Liberal Party just suffered its worst defeat in history and their next big idea is reigniting a debate on stillborn parental leave by pivoting to abortion in 2025 Trump’s midnight Truth Social posts have more policy coherence than this clown show #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Only 8% of Australians think we share values with the US under Trump.
That’s lower than One Nation’s national vote.
Lower than Clive Palmer’s approval.
Lower than the error margin of the poll itself.
At this point, Dementia polls higher.
Labor’s still spooning the guy like it’s 2019
#auspol
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
These articles fixate on deposits like they’re the problem. They’re not. The real barrier is borrowing capacity. A $90k income doesn’t qualify you for a $935k mortgage even with a deposit. But they’ rather you obsess over savings than realise the system is fundamentally flawed #auspol
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM