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Our nation’s housing crisis can’t be discussed in isolation from last weekend’s events.

Thousands of Australians took to the streets to march with the Australian National Flag in hand.

Shamefully, members of the Government – and members of the Greens – have sought to mischaracterise these marches – and to impugn the character of those who marched.

The Minister for Multicultural Affairs described the marches as “blatantly racist” and having an “anti-immigration agenda.”

Senator Faruqi expediently used the marches to again voice her anti-Westernism – and her deranged views that Australians are inherently racist.

She said, “Racism is the foundation of settler colonial states.”

This is from the same senator who gleefully stood in front of a placard calling for the extermination of Israel.

The same senator who has attended antisemitic rallies where protesters wave terrorist flags.

The same senator who condones the barbarity of Hamas who are the actual neo-Nazis of the Middle East.

Even the Prime Minister said the tone “of much of the rallies was – unfortunate.”

Much of the Left media imbibed and repeated these misrepresentations – again exposing their abandonment of journalistic objectivity.

But Australians can see through the false narratives.

The vast majority of people who attended those marches are proud and decent Australians –who love our country.

They marched because they have legitimate concerns.

Concerns about the impacts of unprecedented mass migration under the Albanese Government.

Concerns about ruptures to our social cohesion – because mass migration has opened the door to people who reject our values.

The majority who marched weren’t anti-migrant or racist.

In fact, many who marched were clearly of a migrant background.

And they sung our national anthem in solidarity with those around them.

These Australians simply want an end to uncontrolled, unplanned, and unsustainable migration.

They want a restoration of controlled, planned, and sustainable migration.

They want these things because they’re seeing – with their own eyes – the ramifications of mass migration.

They’re seeing a deterioration in local services – where it’s harder to get an appointment with a GP or a specialist.

They’re seeing greater pressures on infrastructure – with more congested transport – and wear and tear on the roads.

And they’re seeing the impacts on the housing market – where greater demand for homes has meant less supply.

This, in turn, has seen rents soar – and home prices skyrocket.

By bringing in a record 1.2 million people in its first term, Labor has unleashed a housing crisis.

And frankly, none of the Government’s policies to boost housing supply are working.

Not a single new house was built in the Government’s first term under its $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund.

Moreover, of the 1.2 million homes Labor has promised to build by 2029, they need to hit a target of 250,000 homes a year.

Yet they’re building barely 170,000 homes a year.

Just yesterday, the ABS confirmed approvals fell by 8.2 per cent in July.

Under Labor, a record number of building companies have gone bust. Big, small, regional, metro – they’re all struggling.

Labor’s disastrous renewables-only energy policy has driven-up the cost of everything – including housing construction.

The building sector has also been hamstrung by a control-obsessed government.

Labor has enacted some 5,000 new regulations since coming to power.

This over-regulation has made it harder and more expensive to build homes.

Here’s the truth:

Labor’s housing crisis, its undermining of home ownership, and its mass migration agenda all benefit this government.

More Australians become dependent on the state.

More Australians are forced to rent for longer.

And more Australians become reliant on Labor’s handouts.

That’s exactly what this socialist government wants – so it can cling to power at any cost.