Ganesh Sahathevan

 by Ganesh Sahathevan Channel 7 reported on Monday 9 May 202 2, two  days before the NSW Upper House began debating the assisted suicide bill:   Anthony Albanese   has received a rock star welcome at the   Sydney   high school he attended as a child. The Labor Leader visited St Mary’s Cathedral College, with Tanya Plibersek and Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher on Monday morning. The bill was passed into law on Thursday 12 May 2022. While Fisher's opposition to the bill is well known, it is equally well known th at Albanese and Pilbersek are in favour of assisted suicide.  Fisher's public outing with both Albanese and Pilbersek at St Mary's Cathedral School (which is in the Cathedral compound) may well have signalled to NSW Upper House members that voting in favour of the bill was not necessarily wrong and swung the vote of undecided members in favour of the bill. In Fisher's own words the bill passed into law by a narrow margin. TO BE READ WITH...

 by Ganesh Sahathevan  The ABC has reported : Labor has outlined a new "shared-equity" scheme that it would enact in government, essentially buying 30 or 40 per cent of a property with the buyer. Not mentioned anywhere is the fact that in 2007 Labor under Rudd proposed a similar scheme. Promoted by then Housing Minister Tanya Pillbersek, the scheme failed to account for the well known problems with joint equity funding (see below). Predictably, the Rudd-Pillbersek project failed, and the ABC reported it in an article written by researchers from the Grattan Institute: Kevin Rudd's rental affordability scheme was a $1 billion gift to developers. Tony Abbott was right to axe it Pillbersek ought to know this better than most: Investment in Low Cost Housing by Institutional Funders-Is The Housing Minister Aware Of The Facts? May 01, 2022 Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek and Tony Jones on Lateline in 2007: TONY JONES: Very quickly on the superannuation funds that you're hop...

Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek and Tony Jones on Lateline: TONY JONES: Very quickly on the superannuation funds that you're hoping will join this, have you spoken to them? Have they expressed interest and have they indicated they're prepared to put up the funds to do this? TANYA PLIBERSEK: We've had a lot of discussions with superannuation funds and other types of investors and they say they've been really looking for a way of investing in affordable housing in Australia. As was said earlier in the program, some invest in affordable housing overseas. They haven't been able to in Australia. They've been investing in commercial property and retail and so on, but not in this more affordable end of the market. That's what makes me so excited about this new proposal. It's great to see Australians' superannuation money in particular, making a contribution to making housing more affordable for lower income Australians. (http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/con...