Baby Boomers are primarily responsible for hostility toward housing growth and density, Planning Minister Rob Stokes says, accusing the generation of being the drivers of so-called NIMBYism.
Speaking to developers, planning bureaucrats and community leaders, Mr Stokes said growth had become a concept to be suspected, resisted or treated with outright hostility.
"We need to recognise that housing is not just an asset class, actually far more than that, it's about providing a place to live," he said. "And if we don't do that, we're not building a health inclusive city. And we're actually creating huge blockages toward productivity that can increase prosperity for all."Labors' planning spokesman Adam Searle said the planning system had worsened under the Liberal-National coalition.
How about you get the bludging self absorbed entitled millennials to go help the farmers pick fruit!!! Then our taxes won’t have to payout for them to sleep surf and do Jack !!!
Seriously? You’re that desperate?
Yeah your right sell it all the Harry trigbouff and Meriton, build 23 story buildings in single dwelling neighbourhoods, and double suburb populations without adequate infrastructure 🤫
Stokes in Parliment, Stokes in Media Mogul of owner 9NewsAUS , what’s the guess there’s more of them in Water,Power,Health and Tolled Roads grubs with fingers in every pie
No, it’s your inability to run the country that has caused it!
Silent generation and baby boomers are the greatest generations in the history of the world always will be , now there are three genders , now everybody is so frightened of upsetting anybody,minorities rule and majority’s are forgotten about.
More about protesting against poor planning.
Then drop negative gearing, and give some of that privelige to the next generations.
My God .This odious Minister needs sacking .The baby boomers were paying 17.95% for their mortgages in 1986 -7 And i was Working 6 days a week 12 hours a day.On very low wages.
Yea those evil boomers
As a Boomer I hate to admit it but basically we have trashed the world with our greed and self interest.
Rob Stokes is too lazy to do actual planning. He is content to give vast tracts of prime real estate in cities to his developer mates to maximise their profits. Where is the plan to move industry to country towns to sustain them in times like now? Where are the hospitals etc?
Where does he get that from. He's just looking for scapegoats for Liberal ineptitude and failed efforts in their planning. The minister should look into the mirror for the problems they now face. Note high density bldgs are falling down under Liberal mismanagement
I would suggest successive Australian State and Federal governments, bent on development at all costs, in order to win elections, for most of our population and overdevelopment problems.
3 people per square kilometre and this idiot wants to shoe-horn more people into overcrowded cities to help his slimy mates?
a lot of rumor's around sydney that stokes has directed large number of senior public servants sacked from planning. Including their CFO ,head of HR and many snr planners. Follow up ? JodiMcKayMP ?
RobStokesMP is lost on this portfolio. He allowe the mandain sof planning to savage the environment aganecy and politicised the public service in his spaces. YOUR the blame Stokes stop being a little bitch about it.
The hositility isn’t towards housing growth it is toward government that approve the housing growth without adequate infrastructure in place to support it.
Really tired of this boomers vs millennials crap. It solves nothing.
Oh goody another catch phrase. How about the adverse effects of poor planning decisions and government failure to adequacy regulate to ensure the safety of citizens living in apartments ( see cladding ) and the effect of donations on the political system ?
Blaming the victims of property developer and political greed is a bit rich. STOPoverdevelopment STOPoverpopulation BetterNotBigger 🌏 environment planning housing jobs VoteSustainable
Maybe it's because there are those who have a gutfull of hearing about environmental concerns but seeing overpopulation at the same time which directly contributes to environmental damage.
on that topic...
Baby boomers are old enough to remember, and see the destruction of life wrought by economists, corporates and governments spin.
This is a classic tactic using Ageism to detract from the fact that our government has no policies - don’t fall for this.
Yawn ... is it time for my nap yet?
R B A cutting interest rates. “People feel happier with wealth creation”..... Housing prices once again going higher. Affordability vaporises. How’s that a baby boomers creation?
Rocket Rob ‘I’m on a career trajectory’ fires one off.
Yeah nah
every generation blames the ones before them for the shit they find themselves in - get on with it
yeah - screw everyone else
On the contrary. I’m participating in development as it happens.
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