A call to ban no-ground evictions in Western Australia has failed to pass through parliament, making the state and the Northern Territory the only jurisdictions in Australia where landlords can evict tenants without a good reason. Renters and housing advocates took to the steps outside Parliament House in Perth toContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese’s ambitious plan to build 1.2 million new homes over the next five years has been declared as dead in the water – before it even officially commences. One of the Federal Government’s signature policies led to the establishment of a National Housing Accord between the states and territoriesContinue Reading
Social media users have taken aim at stars of The Project after an appearance by a renter advocate who’s encouraging those struggling with the housing crisis to squat in empty homes. Jordan van den Berg, better known online as @purplepingers and founder of the S*** Rentals website, shared a videoContinue Reading
Tenants living in Brisbane’s Musgrave Park fear they will be booted from the leafy grounds, with a festival set to take over in the coming month. Currently housing more than 60 tents, the park is an example of Australia’s housing crisis, which sees the country’s rental vacancy rate at aContinue Reading
The NSW Premier has raised serious concerns over chronic labour shortages in the state’s construction sector, warning severe worker shortfalls will cripple Labor’s national housing supply targets. Chris Minns says it will “extremely difficult” for the state to meet the federal government’s plan to build 1.2 million new homes inContinue Reading
A depressing map revealing the least affordable housing markets in the world includes three Australian entries, with one city ranked second-worst globally. The illustration uses the latest data from Demographia examining 94 major housing markets across eight countries to compare affordability in some of the world’s biggest economies. It dividesContinue Reading
A lack of tradies could put Australia’s gutsy housing targets in jeopardy. The Labor government pledged to build 1.2 million homes in the next five years, but in order to meet that goal an extra 90,000 construction workers are required in the next three months. The situation has been calledContinue Reading
Australia’s record immigration intake is largely being fuelled by an unprecedented influx of international students, which universities claim are Australia’s fourth-biggest “export” bringing in $40 billion a year. But some experts have long questioned that figure, produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), arguing it does not take intoContinue Reading
Australia is on track to “obliterate” last year’s record immigration levels as record population growth sends living standards into “terminal decline”, an economist has warned. Leith van Onselen, co-founder of MacroBusiness and chief economist at MB Fund and MB Super, said the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of StatisticsContinue Reading
The former NSW Premier who famously declared that Sydney was “full” in 2000 has again hit out at Australia’s record immigration levels. “I’ve been trying to get Australia to understand that we do not need to have the highest rate of immigration, in proportion to our population, in the world,”Continue Reading