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2022 Australian Federal Election on this coming weekend - please make your vote count!

Think very carefully if you wish to support the Liberal National Party (Australian Republican party basically) or Clive Palmer or Pauline Hanson (both support the LNP through preferences, etc.) or any of the 'teal independents' (mostly disaffected LNP people) this federal election...

Under the LNP's 'super for housing' scheme a person can pull $50k out of super (equiv of 401k type schemes in the USA) to buy a house. But where does the rest of the money come from? Bank of mum and dad? (not likely anymore - inheritances aren't common) so high risk (relatively low interest) bank finance? (most likely) Young people can also access all sorts of Aus federal and state govt grant schemes for first home buyers, and can borrow nearly all the principal because interest rates are stupidly low.

I could buy a modest property right now outright with no mortgage if I could use all my super, but would I want to do that and then have close to zero funds left to retire with in 20 yrs time (around when I'm 70 since I can't stop working sooner)? No.

Yet everyone who took $20k out of super during lockdowns (primarily young adults) will clamour to take another $50k out to 'get into the property market'.

The LNP achieves a few goals here - forces property prices up, people have to work longer past when they could nominally retire and makes people have a lot less to live on when they retire (thus incentivising people to keep working longer) - so people will be left with no viable option but to work until they die plus leave nothing for future generations.

These are pillars the Australian Liberal aka Republican party has wanted for ages, and ties into the WEF Agenda 2030 targets of which our federal government is a signatory (think 'great reset', etc.) via membership of the WEF.
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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
A fair, if limited summary. The Liberal Plan just provides more access to money (That scheme was already there for people over 65 and due to go to 60 as of July, but is not to be accessable to 55 year olds). The labour plan targets low income earners only, who have less chance of having big superannuation balances, and specifies a price ceiling on the house. And it is accompanied by a public housing building scheme, which "should" have a downward impact on the market. One more thing.. The Labor Scheme takes a % equity position in the houises bought. So if the bum falls out of the housing market, they share the loss. If you take your own Super out, and the value drops the whole loss is yours.😷