News of Anthony Albanese’s lavish $4.3 million addition to his housing portfolio raised a few eyebrows as he tries to relate with everyday Aussies struggling amid the cost-of-living crisis. It certainly did not help that he boasted of making “a good income” and being “much better off as Prime Minister” when questioned about the purchase.
But why let a little thing like political optics stop you buying a multi-million dollar, two-storey, four-bedroom, three-bathroom, cliff top getaway with timber-lined cathedral ceilings? Especially when it comes during financially crippling inflation and interest rates less than a year from an election. It turns out the Prime Minister adding a new pad, alongside his investment property in Dulwich Hill and a residential in Marrickville and Canberra, is not something so rare for the political elite who endlessly claim to understand the plight of the average Aussie. Mr Albanese’s number one critic Peter Dutton has more in common with his political rival than you’d hear about on the floor of parliament.
While the Opposition Leader currently owns a 68-hectare riverfront farm in Queensland’s Dayboro, he's got a long history in the housing market. He first caught the property bug after scoring a nice 25 per cent bump on investment from an apartment he purchased at just 20-years-old. He’s since bought and sold about a dozen properties after that fateful first sale.
Mr Dutton's most impressive sales include a beachfront property on t.