As is widely known, I will be walking from Australia’s Parliament House to Mount Kosciousko–a distance of 225km–as the result of losing part of a bet with a well-known “bull” on property in Australia, Rory Robertson. I am obliged to wear a T‑Shirt with the words “I was hopelessly wrong on house prices: ask me how” emblazoned on it.
As I explain on www.keenwalk.com.au, I was ambushed with this bet in front of an audience of 80–100 people at Parliament House. I have responded in kind by turning the walk into a protest about the manner in which keeping property prices high has come to dominate economic policy in Australia–with what I prefer to call the First Home Vendors Boost being the most outrageous example of that.