This Month
Voters furious at housing impasse, O’Neil warns Greens
The Housing Minister says voters will punish an ‘unholy alliance’ between the Coalition and the Greens.
- Tom McIlroy
October
Don’t blame HomeBuilder for inflation: economists
The Coalition and economists have rejected the pandemic inquiry’s criticisms of the $2.6 billion housing construction stimulus.
- John Kehoe and Michael Bleby
The housing policy choices facing voters
What are the choices facing voters in 2025 and which policies will actually help address the shortages of supply in Australia’s hectic property market?
- Tom McIlroy
Double dissolution election threat ‘serious’: Labor
Labor is preparing to reintroduce its stalled shared equity housing bill into parliament next week, in an attempt to increase pressure on the Greens.
- Tom McIlroy
September
Australia’s most powerful people in property for 2024
Interest rates and construction costs are wreaking havoc and creating new winners and losers. Perhaps the biggest power shift is the fading influence of the CFMEU.
- Nick Lenaghan
Out in the cold: Why housing is just one problem for Labor
Unless Labor can dig its way out of its parliamentary quagmire, it faces the real possibility of ending up in minority government – or worse.
- Tom McIlroy
Housing fight for young voters plays out where they live: online
Pollsters and campaigning experts say a slew of social media posts over help for first homebuyers is a taste of things to come ahead of the election.
- Tom McIlroy
Greens, Coalition shrug off double dissolution risk from housing impasse
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the two parties are yet to put forward any rational argument against the government’s Help to Buy scheme.
- Tom McIlroy
‘Get on with it’: Labor’s patience runs out on housing roadblock
Anthony Albanese and Clare O’Neil say Labor’s plans on supply and affordability are being needlessly delayed by opposition from the Greens.
- Tom McIlroy
Senate showdowns loom over housing, RBA and the environment
The government says 13,700 affordable homes have been approved under the policies it has managed to legislate so far.
- Phillip Coorey
- Updated
- Construction
Developers warn creeping costs making all but luxury homes difficult
Some of the country’s largest builders say they are pivoting towards properties for older downsizers and wealthy baby boomers to make the margins they need.
- Larry Schlesinger and Michael Bleby
Greens’ housing solution: hire 1000 public servants and slug landlords
The minor party wants a new national authority to crack down on dodgy real estate agents and landlords, promising to hire 1000 federal public servants to enforce renters rights.
- Tom McIlroy
August
How long it takes workers in common jobs to save for a home deposit
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says the Greens and the Coalition are blocking crucial legislation federally, but the states could do more to ease the situation.
- Updated
- Tom McIlroy
‘Political roadkill’: why Labor can’t get credit for its $32b housing plan
Newly appointed Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says the causes of the supply crisis facing Australian families are more complicated than legislation in parliament. She has a plan to break the deadlock.
- Tom McIlroy
Independents tell Greens to get out of the way on housing bill
Allegra Spender and David Pocock say Labor’s stalled housing bills should urgently pass the Senate, provided the government agrees to a series of amendments.
- Tom McIlroy
- Analysis
- Sketch
The next election is sucking the life out of politics
Back in Canberra after a six-week break, Labor and the Coalition appeared dejected and snarky.
- Tom McIlroy
No end in sight on housing impasse as O’Neil takes fight to Greens
Greens spokesman Max Chandler-Mather savages housing minister’s claim that Treasury modelling shows 160,000 new rental properties would be built in a decade.
- Tom McIlroy
Labor’s silence is TikTok’s boon
The federal government may have banned TikTok on government-issued devices, but the Australian public has been left to its own devices.
- Max Mason
Build-to-rent plan risks ‘repelling investors’
Labor has been warned to redesign key elements of its plan to boost affordable rental stock around Australia.
- Tom McIlroy and Campbell Kwan
Companies to face fines for failing to disclose cyber ransom payments
Legislation due to be introduced to federal parliament within weeks will require businesses with a turnover of $3 million or more to report payments to hackers.
- Tom McIlroy