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All the Victorian government needs to do is to define “residential” tenancy as three months or more (as it is in NSW) and to allow Owners Corps in strata buildings to decide whether or not they want short-term lets, regardless of what kind of zoning they have.
But. like our politicians here, they are paralysed by the onrush of the misnamed “sharing economy” – which should be called the “every man for himself society” – and don’t want to do anything that might upset the young “cool” voters.
Imagine if they fined people for texting or wearing headphones while they are walking down the street. It would cut the pedestrian accident rate by about half (according to recent statistics) but there isn’t a politician who has the guts to be seen as the anti-iPhone flag-waver.
Most things in politics are complicated. Some things are simple. Keeping short-term lets out of residential buildings would belong to the latter group … if our politicians weren’t spine-deficient.