Elias Greig

Jul 2, 2024 | overland.org.au | Maddison Stoff |Elias Greig

Australia is in the grip of a housing and cost-of-living crisis, especially for welfare recipients or people who subsist on lower incomes. Despite this, the current Labor government refuses to make any meaningful concessions — such as increasing our miserable and insufficient welfare rate, instigating rental caps, or even ending the pointless cruelty of mutual obligations — to the people most affected by economic inequality.

Aug 9, 2023 | overland.org.au | Dan Hogan |Elias Greig

The problem with feudalism is it can’t be solved with capitalism. Unlike capitalists, landlords don’t offer wages to the tenants they exploit to extract rents. Landlords—as is written in their title—are feudalists whose core business is expanding and conserving rental serfdom.