That was the set-up line delivered by the money man himself, Cameron Dick, to a room of more than 200 others hashing out ideas to ease Queensland’s housing crunch late last year.
The events of the past week give a clear example of the gap between what some have long been asking for, and how much heat the government is willing to cop to give it.Met with laughter and a prompt from colleagues to get to the punchline, you could argue if it ever came. Dick suggested the trio had more in common than we would think: all wanted to solve the issues making it tougher than ever for people to find a home in the state. On the “how”, we can probablyA vast gap lies between what community organisations, housing policy experts and the Greens have been asking for, what the state’s Labor government seems willing to give, and what the real estate industry is capable of fighting against with a megaphone provided by the LNP and some media.
A joint press conference called by LNP shadow treasurer David Janetzki and Real Estate Institute of Queensland chief executive Antonia Mercorella hours later pushed the outcry further.Janetzki made a point of the deja vu – six months earlier the pair stood together making similar ominous (