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Larissa Waters

πŸ‘€ Speaker
674 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

Like they've been flooding the airwaves for quite some time now and feeding off that discontent and that anger.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

But what is so damaging about their party and her ideology is that she blames migrants for

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

for the economic problems that we're all facing.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And it is not migrants' fault.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

The fact that housing is unaffordable and groceries are unaffordable and, you know, transport's unaffordable has nothing to do with migration.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And our country is built off the back of, we're all migrants, unless you're a First Nations person.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

That's who we are as a community.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And so for Pauline Hanson and her party to be trying to pit people against each other whilst taking the money from the billionaires, it just makes it clear that she's doing it to protect the billionaires because she's trying to distract people by hating on each other to take the focus off the fact that the system's working really nicely for the ultra wealthy.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

I mean, if you look at COVID times when we shut the borders and that we had no migration because no one could travel, house prices still increased.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

Okay.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

So it is not migration that is driving house price increases.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

It is those property investor tax perks.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And I've seen the graphs and I've looked at them and the moment they came in, that's when house prices got turbocharged.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And they're those very same tax perks that this government has decided to keep for everyone who's already got them.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

Grandfathered in, they call it.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

And, you know, it just boggles the mind.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

So you have a billionaire backed person who essentially uses racism to try to boost her own political fortunes and her own personal fortunes, I might add.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

But none of those so-called solutions will help anyone.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

Being racist doesn't make your bills cheaper.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
Breaking Down the Budget with Larissa Waters

It doesn't make your home more affordable.