In every era, certain industries become so large, so politically embedded, and so culturally unexamined that their performance ceases to matter.
They are judged instead on the confidence with which they declare themselves indispensable. In contemporary Australia, that industry is property. It has woven around itself a powerful myth: that towers equal progress, population growth equals prosperity, and the private development model is synonymous with the national interest.
The great failure of the property industry