The easiest way to boost the supply of housing in Australia would be for governments to build new houses.

The easiest way to provide affordable rental accommodation would be to rent the new government-built houses to people at affordable rents.

Fixing a housing crisis is not complicated.

But instead of our state and federal governments building more housing, they now build a lot less than they used to.

Indeed our governments are so bad at supplying housing, and our expectations of them are now so low, that most people and most media simply forget to blame governments for failing so badly.

The media love to blame governments for a lack of hospital beds, ambulances, police, or roads, but apparently, making people wait for a house is no big deal in Australia 2025.

When governments want to do something, they never let details become an excuse for delay. Want to ban kids from social media but aren’t sure how to verify people’s age?

No worries, vote for the legislation and we’ll sort the details as we go.

But when Australian governments don’t want to do something, they come up with the most elaborate and complicated policies to make it look like they are trying.

Want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but are afraid of making the coal and gas industry sad?

Just keep subsidising and approving new gas and coal mines, and then rely on accounting tricks like ‘carbon offsets’ to

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