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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation so a federal budget last night.

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Speaker 1: One of the winners are the low income renters. If

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Speaker 1: you're a recipient of rent assistance with no dependence, and

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Speaker 1: you don't share a rental home with anyone else, your

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Speaker 1: payment will increase from one hundred and fifty seven dollars

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Speaker 1: twenty cents a fortnight to one hundred and eighty dollars

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Speaker 1: and eighty cents. Being a renter in this modern market

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Speaker 1: seems to be so hard. There's a story in the

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Speaker 1: paper this morning. This woman is showing off as a

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Speaker 1: joke ironically her five hundred dollars a week unit in Sydney.

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Speaker 1: She said, if I don't laugh, I'll cry. This place

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Speaker 1: is so small. She has a mini fridge that she

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Speaker 1: stacks on top of the washing machine. In the kitchen,

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Speaker 1: she has a tin of Keenes curry powder holding the

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Speaker 1: sink up because the sink is broken. She says she

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Speaker 1: has to sit sideways on the toilet to have enough legroom.

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Speaker 1: A bathroom mirror is glued onto the window. The wardrobe

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Speaker 1: door doesn't stay open because the apartment was built on

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Speaker 1: a lean. This is a five hundred dollars a week

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Speaker 1: unit in Sydney.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: People from other parts of the world just must think.

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Speaker 1: No wonder people are leaving Sydney. This is extraordinary. The

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Speaker 1: rental crisis is dreadful and rent as you see people

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Speaker 1: all the way around the block trying to one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty people looking for one place on a weekend,

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Speaker 1: really really hard. So let's talk about renting hell. What

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Speaker 1: are the stories that you've seen? How hard is it?

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Speaker 1: What have you ended up having to rent? How much

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Speaker 1: are you having to pay? That is outrageous? What's the

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Speaker 1: renting hell's story?

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Speaker 2: Your landlord, how are you going with that? What about

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Speaker 2: your land I remember when I was renting many years ago,

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Speaker 2: and the landlord he was in a wheelchair. He was

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Speaker 2: a paraplegic, and he used to be quite sexually provocative

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Speaker 2: to my wife when I was a wife. He'd come around, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he come around and he and he talked to her

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Speaker 2: through the door and say, you know, you seem like

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Speaker 2: a woman of all seasons. And one time he was

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Speaker 2: talking about how it gets stiff all the time, and

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Speaker 2: Helen sitting this, Oh, your leg must be terrible, your

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Speaker 2: poor thing. He has not my leg it stands up

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Speaker 2: all the time. What did you do? What did she do?

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Speaker 2: I mean, how do you that that's can't go and

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Speaker 2: beat up a guy on a wish.

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Speaker 1: You can beat him up, but you can go around

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, you don't beat him.

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Speaker 2: There's a normal ladlight. I would have beat him.

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Speaker 1: You know. You can just go around and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: don't speak to my wife like that. You can go

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Speaker 1: to the rental bondboard. You could all sorts of things

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Speaker 1: you don't put up with that. There were different times

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Speaker 1: weren't that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I just got a job in Brisbane, so.

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Speaker 1: My wife over your like because I've just moved here.

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Speaker 2: N Away resolved itself.

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Speaker 1: Renting hell