There s another piece of the 1990s puzzle that I see even David Thorns missed. The decision to remove income-related rents was also a response to a Business Roundtable complaint that income-related rents in state housing created unfair competition for private landlords and thus kept rents lower than the market rate (sorry, I don t have a reference for this, but I remember it clearly from an essay I wrote on the subject in 1992).
So the expectation, even from the Right, was that removing income-related rents would make rents go up, it s just that they would have viewed the initial increase as a market correction or some other cruel euphemism. The AS was meant to soften the blow of that correction, but I can t imagine they didn t see an associated rent increase as inevitable. I certainly did. Though at the time I think there was some rhetoric about how it wouldn t affect rents because the existence of the supplement would make investment in new rental stock more attractive, or some
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While comparing teams from one year to another is difficult and subjective, as are any debates seeking to decide the greats of each sport, they are indeed interesting subjects for sports fans whether it be boxing, running, horse racing, football or any other sport.
In the case of the AFL, I have a number of reasons why I choose Essendon’s 2000 AFL premiership team with regard to the champion teams I have observed either live or via television.