I just found this comment on Facebook - I'm not taking credit.

As I said I found this on Facebook so I'm not taking credit for it, it's brilliant. Just, the root causes of all the issues the LNP shills are harping on about.

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In the lead up to election, we're going to hear a lot from the Coalition and their media proxies about the "cost of living crisis", "struggling families" and the "housing crisis"... and why it's Labor's fault. So lets look at how we got here.

Since 1996, Australia has had 20 years of Coalition Government. In that same time period, Labor has held power for only 9 years, 3 of which were as a minority Government. So the Coalition has had more than twice as long to shape and influence the country we have today.

As Labor took power in 2007, the Global Financial Crisis shook the World, decimating the global economy. Treasurer Wayne Swan was awarded the Best Financial Minister in the World by The Economist for how he navigated the country through that crisis.

What would eventually bring that new Government down was its attempt to introduce a Resource Super Profits Tax on our mining industry, in an attempt to share some of the wealth from the mining boom among the Australian people.

The mining industry spent $28million in attack ads against the Government until Labor were forced to remove Kevin Rudd and replace the tax with a significantly watered down version that the mining industry were happy with.

When Tony Abbott came to power in 2013, he abolished the tax entirely.

It was estimated that Rudd's tax plan would have raised $12billion a year that could have been spent on Government services, hospitals, schools, or invested in local industries.

Instead... Gina Rinehart is now worth more than $30billion, Andrew Forrest more than $20billion, Clive Palmer more than $4billion.

Kie Chi Wong, Sam Chong, Chris Wallin, Angela Bennett, Alexandra Burt, Chris Ellison... names you've probably never heard of, but they're all billionaires who made their money in the mining industry in Australia.

BHP makes an annual profit of just under $20billion, Rio Tinto around $18billion, Fortescue just under $15billion.

That is where our nation's wealth has gone instead.

So what about housing?

John Howards decision to introduce a capital gains tax discount on investment properties in 1999 has caused housing prices to increase by 400%, while the average salary has since only increased by about 120%.

Bill Shorten took a number of significant policies to the 2019 election with the specific aim of improving housing affordability, including peeling back Howard's capital gains tax discount, removing negative gearing, and creating a $10billion affordable housing fund.

He lost the election, and house prices in some cities have almost doubled since then.

The election instead gave us three years of the Morrison Government; perhaps one of the most scandal riddled and corrupt Governments in Australian history. Morrison's most significant policy achievement was introducing tax cuts that overwhelmingly favoured the top 5% of income earners.

When Albanese came to power three years ago, he inherited a global inflation crisis, and thanks to needless megaphone diplomacy, our largest trading partner had imposed tarrifs and complete prohibitions on a multitude of Australian exports.

Albanese readjusted Morrison's tax cuts to provide greater relief to low income earners, inflation is now back within the RBA's preferred range and half of what it was when Morrison was in power, and thanks to careful and considered diplomacy, all the tariffs and trade blocks against Australian products have now been removed by the Chinese Government.

Yes, housing is still an issue they have to fix. But this is not a mess they created, and there is no easy solution.

I'm not going to pretend that Labor are the answer to all of Australia's problems right now, but if you look back over the past 30 years it's pretty clear that most of our problems started with a Coalition Prime Minister.

Whatever problems we are facing, Peter Dutton and Gina Rinehart are only going to make it worse.