Housing

That’s the salient point.

I have shown time and time again here that a foot hold is achievable. Most don’t want a foot hold, they want it all

That was never the case. All my mates started with cheap apartments and a bit of help from parents. 

I remember having that same discussion 20 years ago 

I lived in london for a couple of years back in the 80's. Home ownership was impossible for most.

 You could buy a semi detached or a unit but not a house.

sorry, Yes. My error, I meant to attach a sarcastic icon. Like this

They certainty CAN afford it especially if they take the foothold approach. 

Don’t bother engaging as you know I’m right

To extrapolate on Tlaz's earlier comment, if you the median price for a house was $150k when the median income was $40k but now the median house price is $600k and the median income is $80k, which presents as a better position to get into the housing market?

Your mother has already gave you what's needed , a life ! and lucky you , your sanity . 

It would be around $65k.

I get most of your points but did you not see where you contradicted yourself by commenting both that your friends with a combined household income of $240k cannot get a start, given that 4 in 5 Australians earn less than $100k they're both individually inside the top 20% of income earners in Australia.

You also commented that people need to just accept "getting a foothold" in the market.

So which is it? The situation is that shot that a couple comfortably ensconed inside the top 20% of household incomes cannot get a go in the market or people are just not accepting that they have to buy at the lower end of the market and work their way up?

When you read that is makes you feel like the Australian Gov either doesn't care about foreign investment in homes, or is getting money from it, or is a puppet gov for China-is under pressure from China to allow it otherwise > install whatever threat you want about grain, meat or wine shipping.  

Otherwise someone explain to me why Australia allows foreign investment in Australian homes ? When a lot of Asian countries for example, forbid us buying and owning property in their country.

As for the grab hag comments, nothing winds me up more than when I see this happen. I used to live next door to a loverly Maori island family, I lived with them next door for 16 yrs. They had banana and mango trees in their backyard, very very well established trees. Whenever the fruit appeared and was ready to pick it was like chaos in my rear laneway. I had to threaten to call the cops on these women so many times, they would climb onto my garage roof with ladders they brought with them, and fill up these brown sugar sacks they brought with them, full of fruit. They would climb onto my garage roof then jump across into the neighbours yard to steal the fruit. I used to get so fkn angry, they damaged the garage roof so badly it started to leak badly and ruin my tools and stuff I stored in there. Their thievery left a huge mess of leaves, with broken branches, broken fruit etc everywhere outside my garage door. You could warn them face to face and they wouldn't bat an eyelid, they simply didn't care what I had to say,  and would simply come back an hr later, getting a dog was great cause he would alert me constantly as they started coming in the nights more and more. 

The first place I bought was a 2 bedroom townhouse, 20km+ from Brisbane CBD. That might not seem like far for posters from Sydney but in Brisbane that is in the sticks. Undesirable. But the price was right, $250k in the late 2000s.