Published 5 May 201728 July 2017 · Cartoons / Housing / Inequality The rent is too high Fury If you liked this cartoon, please subscribe or donate. Fury Fury is a writer, activist, adventurer, poet, redhead, comedian, layabout, do-gooder, trouble maker who lives in Melbourne. Their dream date would be a long walk on the beach, virgin daiquiris and a light but thorough smashing of the patriarchy. More by Fury › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 30 April 2026 · Housing Organised abandonment and Victoria’s Big Housing Build Oli Caruana-Brown and Ella McNicol The crisis is not due to a physical shortage of properties. Rather, it is a series of intentional decisions by Governments to prioritise a system of private property over peoples’ basic human need for shelter, allowing landlords and corporations to continue to hoard housing and extract wealth from tenants via rent. 18 March 202618 March 2026 · Housing Twenty-five years of the housing struggle Hannah Garvan The housing struggle is a tug-o’-war between those who profit and those who pay. Over the last quarter century, this battle for the so-called “privilege” of shelter has accelerated and intensified.
