If Labor’s shadow cabinet thinks that the middle-class owns million dollar houses, I can’t help wondering what their election strategy to target mainstream Australia is going to look like.
That's the ANU's Andrew Leigh, who takes a break from parenting today to comment on this Peter Garrett radio transcript.
On ABC Adelaide's Matthew Abraham and David Bevan program Tuesday the Labor front bencher was asked, quite legitimately in the view of Labor's taunts about Malcolm Turnbull, whether he was a millionaire.
I hate to say it, again, but Garrett's reply was excruciatingly embarrassing, not to mention wrong.
BEVAN: Are you a millionaire?
GARRETT: Well, anybody who owns a house in Sydney or around Sydney probably qualifies for that but I’d say I’m a person of moderate means.
As Andrew Leigh notes, the median house price in Sydney is $520,000.
As he says: "If Labor’s shadow cabinet thinks that the middle-class owns million dollar houses, I can’t help wondering what their election strategy to target mainstream Australia is going to look like."
