Among the good news - and yes, we need to work a bit harder these days to find it - is that the unstoppable Martijn Wilder has been appointed chairman of the federal government’s $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund.

Industry Minister Ed Husic said the new fund was the biggest investment in manufacturing capabilities “In living memory” it will include former Liberal minister Kelly O’Dwyer, former Australian Workers Union secretary Dan Walton, and former Australia Post boss Ahmed Fahour.

We can languidly flick through our phones that lure us into pleasant calmness by showing us cute images of carolling animals or slick reels of yummy food to make while those clever mind bots work out what we like and causally, painlessly get us to tap “Buy” with Amazon, like Santa, delivering things we probably don’t need to our front door.

The experts who understand housing is far more complex say Australia doesn’t have the capacity to deliver anywhere near enough housing to make the prices fall.

If the YIMBIES could go a little more complex and demand more affordable social housing, that would work in all our backyards.