‘Just stirring the pot’: Sunrise host Nat Barr slammed over housing crisis comments

The host of Sunrise has remained tight-lipped after she was criticised for her comments about Australia’s housing crisis.

Sunrise host Nat Barr has remained quiet after she was criticised for sharing her concern that her adult children won’t be able to buy a home due to the housing crisis.

Barr made the comments while speaking on Wednesday’s Hot Topics segment with Housing Minister Clare O’Neil and opposition finance spokesman Jane Hume about Labor’s Help To Buy Bill, set to be reintroduced to parliament.

The legislation would allow 40,000 Australians buy a home with a 2 per cent deposit.

To qualify for the scheme, buyers must earn less than $90,000 a year, or $120,000 a year for couples.

Speaking on Wednesday’s Hot Topics segment, Barr said she’s worried her two sons — aged 19 and 22 — won’t be able to purchase a home after Ms Hume claimed “Australians have already rejected this policy right around the country”.

Barr has been a Sunrise host since 2020. Picture: Instagram

“I’m in the lucky position I got to buy mine when they were cheaper years ago but I don’t know how my kids are going to buy one,” Barr said.

The 56-year-old has been a Sunrise host since 2020 but she has never opened up about her salary.

However, the Daily Mail earlier reported it’s believed she earns more than $1m per year.

Viewers were quick to slam her comments on Facebook, claiming Barr will “set her kids up”.

“She is the last person who should speak she’s wealthy and will set her kids up,” one person commented.
“So many young people are buying houses every day without the help of mum and dad. Nats (sic) just stirring the pot.”

Nat Barr has caused a stir for making the comments. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Another chimed in claiming Barr “earns over $1m per year”.

“You’re saying that over the 20 years she’s been on sunrise she hasn’t been focused on purchasing bond investments, share trading accounts, managed ETF funds and more in her children’s name for their use as they get older?” another wrote.

“I get it she has got the money to get her son a house. The thing is this though she can help with just getting him one or she can give him a loan to get one,” commented another.

“Then people will just start complaining that he is a rich person’s kid and gets what ever he wants and the real world is lost on him ect ect. We don’t know her parenting style she might feel like she has worked for her money and he needs to as well the world ain’t a free ride.”

Barr did not comment on the criticism surrounding her comments when she hosted Sunrise as usual on Thursday.