Oh good. Now we have our latest unity ticket from our major parties – who both want house prices to keep going up.

Clare O’Neil said this last year. Now Dutton is saying it.

I want to see them (house prices) steadily increase. I don’t want to see a situation where Labor crashes the economy and somebody who’s paid $750,000 for a house today is worth 600,000 in 18 months time under an Albanese-Bandt Government.

That would be a disaster. People would be sitting on a house that is wotht less than what their mortgage is. That’s what happened frankly in the ’80s and ’90s when Labor last presided over a recession. Now, Jim Chalmers is talking about a recession in our country and he’s panicking at the moment.(He is not talking about a recession and Dutton is being incredibly irresponsible here)

Labor can’t manage the economy. That much they have proven. (Inflation is down in the target band and the nation did not enter a recession) And I want to make sure that house prices steadily increase and we’ll do that if we get the supply-demand equation right. But if you flood the market with a million people over two years, which is a 70% increase on any 2-year period in our history, of course all those people want houses as well and that’s why we’re cutting migration, so we can deal with Labor’s housing crisis.

Anyone else want to join me in screaming into the abyss?