Peter Dutton stuffs it up.

 Peter Dutton was interviewed on AM this morning talking about his new housing policy.

Quite a few problems. He wants to build new homes not apartments. This will merely lead to more urban sprawl. Spending on infrastructure does not overcome the negatives of urban sprawl. For example you will have a lot more traffic. It is much harder to drop the kids at school and then go to work as most work in the city. It creates a lot more pollution. Another problem is most young couple buy apartments and then move later on when they are earing more money to a house.

He says the CFMEU has caused costs to rise in building. Hang on the CFMEU are strong in building city blocks in the city and major suburbs not high rise apartments and most certainly not building houses in the suburbs.

He wants to reduce immigration but increase immigration for tradesmen. When pressed on this on what categories would reduce if overall immigration was to fall substantially under him he then said he would introduce better rules for pensioners so they could work more and thus earn more and stil lkeep the pension. Huh. Being a tradie is hard physical work. how many pensioners who were formerly tradies do you think will want to be a tradie again in their late 60s!

This policy has been ill thought through is the best one can describe this.