What a convoluted and outlandish manoeuvre Peter Dutton is employing in attempting to convince voters that Anthony Albanese’s reform of the tax legislation is a betrayal.
The problem in the apartment building industry is the number of developers and builders who have moved up from small-scale house projects to multistorey apartments.
The attack on heritage is in effect the same land grab on older inner-city areas that developers ran in the late 60s and early 70s, a campaign all about developer profits and not about affordability of housing or good urban planning.
The government could use the precedent established by the Howard government in 2000. In that year, the Howard government made public, in advance of the then 30-year rule, historical records on Australia and East Timor between 1974 and 1976.