Voters grade Anthony Albanese an “F” on housing, wages

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The Guardian’s latest Essential Poll shows “voters have given the Albanese government an F on containing housing costs and surprisingly little credit for increasing wages”.

53% of voters polled rated the government’s performance as “poor” on “increasing the amount of affordable housing”, including 30% who said it had been “very poor”.

Those polled also said the government was doing a poor job “increasing wages and workers’ rights”.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.