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Copacabana cock-up

Holiday homes for the party elite. High-rise slums for the proles

23 October 2024

10:47 PM

23 October 2024

10:47 PM

If Anthony Albanese is remembered for anything, it will be for ‘the Copacabana cock-up’.

Having not only introduced the worst housing crisis in Australian history, and then not honouring a promise to reverse it, he splurged $4.3 million on a clifftop holiday home at New South Wales’ Copacabana, an almost $900 a night ‘Airbnb hit’.

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