“It’s the end of the backyard. You won’t be able to put a Hills Hoist in the backyard;you certainly won’t be able to play backyard cricket,” he told Ben Fordham Live on Wednesday morning.
“Let’s not kill off our backyard. They’re gonna turn western Sydney into Kolkata:overpopulated,no transport links.”
Carbone said the housing shortage was a consequence of immigration tripling,but also said developers were unable to build homes in part because of a $12,000 tax he said the state government was placing on every home.
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Minns rubbished Carbone’s allegations,saying they were “clearly ridiculous” and an effort to run a scare campaign ahead of local government elections this year.
“It is just hyperventilating from him. Not true;not based in reality. I think he said on the radio this morning,‘The government’s playing politics’. If we were playing politics with this issue,we wouldn’t touch it,” he said.
“Just to make a point about Fairfield:under the previous government’s agreed-upon housing targets,Fairfield Council missed it by 50 per cent. So even when there is co-operation between that council and the state government,they don’t meet the targets.”