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Victoria state election 2026: Coalition pledges to sell $1.3 billion in government property to boost housing and pay down debt (archive.is)
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[–] 11 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Standard Coalition playbook. Sell off anything not nailed down and claim the short-term, short sighted victory, all the while selling out citizens in the long run.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago

    You can only flog off grandma's fine china to the pawn shop once. And then how are you going to buy smokes next week?

    Everything costs billions to construct these days. We're going to sell already built and depreciated assets for that sweet cash injection now, and then a few years later it'll be all surprised-pikachu-face when we discover we're renting all sorts of fixed infrastructure at exorbitant costs.

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    • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    $1.3B is 0.75% of the state's debt.

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