"1. Interest rates, and as a result – Forex rates 2. Supply through planning 3. Grants and Stimulus to buyers 4. Accelerate Population growth through immigration And the failsafe lever of last resort 5. Increase foreign investment in domestic housing. "
this is peacetime talk.
" There are millions of Indian, Chinese, Malay and Indonesian US dollar millionaires queuing to drop anchor in our cities."
they will disappear in a puff of smoke if Australia were even slightly seen to be embroiled in a conflict with China -----
in fact they would be getting their money OUT that bloody quick you would have to put in place capital restraint -- thereby strangling yourself in the process.
All this talk about investors is the talk of peace -----
if, per chance China and Japan warred ----------- peace is over.
A very new game for Australia -------- we would be sitting like a prawn on a skewer waiting to go on the barbie.
god knows how it would turn out.
This is way way way out of Australia's control.
This might all just be fine and ok - or it might be a disaster - either way, we can't do a bloody thing about it.
