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Graham Young

Voting Green may be the greatest act of self-harm by a generation ever

Under the Greens’ housing proposal, rent could rise by an average $83 a week, on top of the rent increases likely to happen anyway.

Why would a party whose voters are younger and disproportionately likely to rent propose policies that could increase rents on average by another $83 per week, as well as lead to as many as 450,000 homes disappearing from the rental market?

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Graham Young is the executive director of the Australian Institute for Progress.

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