Labor to stuff excess population into demountable slums

Monday 25 November 2024

Watching my local primary school turn from a well-built 1970s structure with space to play into a crushed-loaded labyrinth of demountables over the past decade has been interesting.

Now Labor has an even better idea. Those temporary boxes, which are shipping containers for kids, will now become the housing for a new generation of Australians displaced by mass immigration.

Yes, demountables are coming to a suburb near you.

About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.