{"id":40240,"date":"2026-08-05T09:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=40240"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:25:43","slug":"albanese-must-stop-high-fiving-wealth-wipe-out-of-young-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/albanese-must-stop-high-fiving-wealth-wipe-out-of-young-australians\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanese must stop high-fiving wealth wipe out of young Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Albanese government needs to stop high-fiving falling house prices, because they&#8217;re sending first home buyers and Australian families into negative equity\u201d, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Wilson&#8217;s comments come as new PropTrack analysis confirms $230 billion has been wiped from Australia&#8217;s property market in just four months, with property values falling from $12.77 trillion to $12.54 trillion since Labor&#8217;s tax changes, global turmoil and interest rate rises began to bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt&#8217;s clear that the Albanese government doesn&#8217;t understand that they&#8217;re deliberately crashing Australians&#8217; wealth\u201d, Mr Wilson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYesterday, Albanese government Minister Matt Thistlethwaite couldn&#8217;t even tell the difference between negative equity and defaulting on a mortgage on national television, and this is the government deciding the fate of Australians\u2019 biggest asset\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFirst the Albanese government came for the savings of retirees, then they came for the equity of small business owners, then the wealth of families, and now they&#8217;re coming for the hopes of first home buyers\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTheir own 5 per cent deposit scheme has loaded first home buyers up with government-guaranteed debt right as they&#8217;ve crashed confidence in the property market, and now those same Australians are being walked into negative equity by the government&#8217;s own design\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis isn&#8217;t a fundamental problem with real estate, it&#8217;s a sentiment of fear created by an Albanese government that thinks smashing the value of Australians&#8217; homes is somehow a win\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTaxpayers are now on the hook for $11 billion in liability because Labor&#8217;s scheme has more than quintupled since they came to office, while almost 60 per cent of new entrants are borrowing more than 94 per cent of the purchase price\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Albanese government should stop treating a housing wealth wipe-out as some kind of victory lap and start taking responsibility for a crisis of confidence they created\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Albanese government needs to stop high-fiving falling house prices, because they&#8217;re sending first home buyers and Australian families into negative equity\u201d, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson&#8217;s comments come as new PropTrack analysis confirms $230 billion has been wiped from Australia&#8217;s property market in just four months, with property values falling from $12.77 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/albanese-must-stop-high-fiving-wealth-wipe-out-of-young-australians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Albanese must stop high-fiving wealth wipe out of young Australians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40241,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240\/revisions\/40241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}