New Political Party - Australian Homeowners Party

joeyjojojuniorshabadoo said :

I’m forming the Australian Air-Breathers Party, who’s with me???

I’d want to see you policy on excluding certain people from the party’s target demographic.

joeyjojojuniorshabadoo said :

I’m forming the Australian Air-Breathers Party, who’s with me???

Will you pro oxygen thieves or against?

blub said :

Maybe they’ve gone to buy a home first?

Great time for it, property prices have well and truly tanked in the ACT, there are going to be some great bargains to be had in the next 6 months or so.

devils_advocate said :

Australian Homeowners Party

from 6pm – ?

Salads and snacks provided. BYO meat and beer.

Something tells me this is one party they won’t need to call the cops over.

*snore*

C’mon,

Everyone’s got one or two friends that constantly talk about real estate. Everyone hates them.

Now imagine putting a whole group of them together in the same place.

Casually mention something about falling property prices, negative gearing or baby boomers being leeches on society.

Then get a good position and watch the fireworks.

devils_advocate said :

Australian Homeowners Party

from 6pm – ?

Salads and snacks provided. BYO meat and beer.

Something tells me this is one party they won’t need to call the cops over.

*snore*

Keys in the bowl toots.

I’m forming the Australian Air-Breathers Party, who’s with me???

Australian Homeowners Party

from 6pm – ?

Salads and snacks provided. BYO meat and beer.

Something tells me this is one party they won’t need to call the cops over.

*snore*

No dad, that’s not the Homer tax, that’s the Home Owners tax…

blub said :

Maybe they’ve gone to buy a home first?

Odds are they got so excited with the punchy name they came up with that they put policy development on hold so they could spruik the great moniker a bit.

chewy14 said :

hmmmm,

so to increase their potential party membership they’ll have to offer policies that would directly harm their members financial positions?

I’d join for that reason alone. 🙂

Jim Jones said :

I have no time for those filthy caravanistas.

Splitters!

p1 said :

pajs said :

I’m tempted to join and see if I can get their party-platform to be explictly opposed to negative gearing.

When you are looking for warm bodies to stack a branch, let me know.

Obviously the Australian Motor Homes party.

Obviously.

🙂

Or the Homes and Motorists Party – shortened to Ho-Mo Party.

It works every way you do it. 🙂

“Details will follow shortly.”

Maybe they’ve gone to buy a home first?

pajs said :

I’m tempted to join and see if I can get their party-platform to be explictly opposed to negative gearing.

When you are looking for warm bodies to stack a branch, let me know.

Obviously the Australian Motor Homes party.

Obviously. 🙂

Jim Jones said :

But I have a home and a car … so do I vote for the home-os or for the Australian Motorists Party?

Obviously the Australian Motor Homes party.

I have no time for those filthy caravanistas.

Oh, hooray.

So if i’m homosexual, do I vote for the home-o’s or the Greens?

pierce said :

Colloquially known as the Home-os?

Home-os it is. Well done, sir.

hmmmm,

so to increase their potential party membership they’ll have to offer policies that would directly harm their members financial positions?

I’m tempted to join and see if I can get their party-platform to be explictly opposed to negative gearing.

Beau Locks said :

Did they workshop the apostrophe? Is it by or for homeowners? Either way, there are many questions.

I trust that this most vexing question will be answered when ‘details follow shortly’.

Furthermore, will this outfit represent only homeowners, homeowners and people whose bank owns their house, or aspiring homeowners? What about renters? Renters aspiring to own? Renters unable to own because they can’t save a deposit because they’re being gouged by greedy landlords? The same greedy landlords this party will represent? Will the party have a vested interest in maintaining Australia’s status as having the most overpriced housing market in the world, or will it try to make homeownership more attainable?

(Hint: you can’t do both. And before anyone says anything about land release or government charges etc this shit doesn’t make any real difference: there are so many structural issues at play involving our tax and transfer system across levels of government that you’re just pissing in the wind if you think that’ll solve the affordability impasse. And anything that will make housing significantly more affordable for first home buyers that has an immediate effect will reduce the value of existing homes, e.g. if the government just gave away land for free. So, will this new party represent people who are privileged, and work to maintain existing systems that lock other people out of being able to buy or rent a home at a vaguely affordable price, or will it seek to change the structures that gank young people and those on moderate incomes, at the expense of existing homeowners?) Cloudy the future is.

Poor bubbah.

Australian Homeowners Party… hmmm…

They shouldn’t represent landlords, because they own houses, not homes. My interpretation may differ from yours.

But I have a home and a car … so do I vote for the home-os or for the Australian Motorists Party?

My breath is like, um, totally bated.

pierce said :

Colloquially known as the Home-os?

Holy crap, that’s too damn funny, I almost lost my s***! 😀

But seriously? Why? Homeowners sounds a little bit too general to me, plus it kinda sounds like a party created to exclude lower-income voters. So is this a party for the moderately wealthy or just people who make homeownership a cornerstone of their identity?

I suspect Beau Locks’ final para is it: it’s to pressure the various governments to do things that favour home owners, and don’t change the current favourable tax treatment of home ownership.

Those of us locked out of home ownership get to watch on the sidelines. You’d dismiss them as interest group crackpots, but look at what the Hunters and Shooters have managed to do in NSW.

Oooh, this could be dangerous.

Derp.

…because homeowners are so poorly treated by the current major parties?

Did they workshop the apostrophe? Is it by or for homeowners? Either way, there are many questions.

I trust that this most vexing question will be answered when ‘details follow shortly’.

Furthermore, will this outfit represent only homeowners, homeowners and people whose bank owns their house, or aspiring homeowners? What about renters? Renters aspiring to own? Renters unable to own because they can’t save a deposit because they’re being gouged by greedy landlords? The same greedy landlords this party will represent? Will the party have a vested interest in maintaining Australia’s status as having the most overpriced housing market in the world, or will it try to make homeownership more attainable?

(Hint: you can’t do both. And before anyone says anything about land release or government charges etc this shit doesn’t make any real difference: there are so many structural issues at play involving our tax and transfer system across levels of government that you’re just pissing in the wind if you think that’ll solve the affordability impasse. And anything that will make housing significantly more affordable for first home buyers that has an immediate effect will reduce the value of existing homes, e.g. if the government just gave away land for free. So, will this new party represent people who are privileged, and work to maintain existing systems that lock other people out of being able to buy or rent a home at a vaguely affordable price, or will it seek to change the structures that gank young people and those on moderate incomes, at the expense of existing homeowners?) Cloudy the future is.

Colloquially known as the Home-os?