Comment on the Great Australian Dream by Julianna Burgess
22 May 2026
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This is an excellent article about aspiration, risk, incentives and
wealth-creation.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/why-anothony-albanese-and-jim-chalmers-are-budgeting-like-its-1999/news-story/ee2cfa1e199e37e07e92586fc2a831cb

"The Great Australian Dream has never really been about the house. It’s about
what the house represents: aspiration. The migrant who arrived with nothing
and decided their children would have a better life than they did. The
apprentice who saved for years to start their own business. The single mother
who studied through the night and built her own book­keeping practice.

That, in its simplest form, is aspiration: the belief that what you build will
be yours to keep, and that what you keep, you can build on."