 The average house price in WA right now is $650,000 meaning that if you wanted to or needed to be able to actually afford that to pay it back you'd need to earn about $140K a year. If you're over in the rental market weekly your average payment is $650. This is an unaffordable system and that is before we even talk about the fact that so many people right now are basically robbed every single paycheck by a hex debt repayment system that is unjust an indexation system that is out of this world and wildly unfair and that is if you are lucky enough to have a job at all. And before we even talk about the fact that you might be a disabled person, that you might be a person of color, that you might be a queer person, all realities, all identities that radically increase the cost of living of existing as a human being. So many people right now face with the system feel a deep sense of failure and I just I need to say it, you are not failing right now. We are not failing. The system is failing. The system is broken and it is breaking people and people in political positions of power, whether they be liberal or labor, both know this and both know how to fix it. The reality that we need to freeze rents, the reality that we need to abolish hex debt for everyone, the reality that we need to build more social homes right God damn now is fully known by those in positions of power. They refuse to enact those policies because they make money off them right now. The average federal politician owns 2.5 homes to themselves, some own up to and above 10 properties. That is why we see in this system such brokenness and yet such inaction by those with the power to do something. What it means to be a green in this moment in time is to champion the actual solutions and to be with the community in this fight for a more just system.