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Rape response reminds us of the leadership we lack
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February 22, 2021 12.10am
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Brava, Julia Baird, on the speech that she imagines an empathetic and effective prime minister might have made (“What Morrison should tell MPs about Brittany”, February 20-21). Her powerful words highlight the leadership that this country lacks. -
Monica Tang, Randwick
All the various Liberal Party people had to do in respect to the alleged sexual assault was to behave like decent human beings (“Grave crime rocks nest of vipers”, February 20-21). All they had to do was make sure Brittany Higgins knew that she would be supported and protected regardless of what action she decided to take. They couldn’t even do that. -
Housing price stimulation only reinforces inequality
February 19, 2021 â 12.05am
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The governmentâs insistence on doing everything possible to stimulate housing prices certainly bolsters its electoral chances but, in the process, it is accentuating and cementing inequality (âHow to stop the house price madnessâ, February 18). Clearly, those homeowners who own their homes outright and have good income are able to help their children enter the housing market.
On the other side, an increasing proportion of low-income households are being locked out of homeownership and are being forced into becoming life-long private renters with all the attendant insecurity and anxiety. Alternatively, they are purchasing homes which they can ill-afford and spending a considerable proportion of their income on servicing the mortgage. According to the ABS, at least a million low-income households were in housing stress (spending more than 30 pe