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systems

Australia’s housing affordability crisis and its central contradiction

Post author By G
Post date Jul 30, 2026
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A system cannot sustainably maximise accessibility and scarcity at the same time.

Tags complex systems, systems thinking, inequality, political economy, social systems, public policy, housing affordability, structural contradiction, property market, Australian housing crisis, housing policy, home ownership, rental crisis

money

cold comfort for change

The problem is that we built a housing system increasingly organised around speculation and then act surprised when some of its casualties become impossible to ignore.

Tags Australia, economy, failure, homelessness, housing affordability, housing crisis, indifference, inequality, poverty, property market, public housing, rental stress, social housing, speculation, winter

politics

Populism: Flirting with Disaster

Post author By G
Post date Feb 10, 2026
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Populism gains traction by pointing at real pressures: housing stress, cost-of-living anxiety, cultural dislocation, institutional distance, a sense that no one is steering. These are not imagined problems. They are the very real conditions that make people receptive to blunt answers and strong voices. The tragedy is that the tools populism offers to address these […]