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Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton don’t see eye to eye on plenty of policy areas.

Where Albanese and Dutton stand on the eight key issues in this election

New tax and housing policies are latecomers to the campaign agenda that will dominate debate. Medicare and a nuclear energy fight are also in the conversation.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Unlike banks and casinos, real estate agents don’t have to do due diligence checks on customers or report suspicious transactions.

Organised crime and armoured cars of cash: The dirty money pushing up Australian house prices

They looked like any other couple at the auction. But the Russians had a secret.

  • Sherryn Groch
Melbounre’s CBD has more than 1000 unsold, new apartments.

The Melbourne suburbs with hundreds of cheap, brand-new apartments

The state government wants developers to build more housing, but they can’t even shift the units they already have.

  • Daniella White
Military delegates march ahead of the opening session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

‘Changes unseen in a century’: China braces for shifting global order

As a trade war with the United States begins, China wants to fire up its economy and plans to increase defence spending.

  • Lisa Visentin
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil.

Labor pledges two-year ban on foreign housing investors, mirroring Coalition promise

From April 1, foreign investors will be banned from buying established property. The policy includes an exemption for developments of at least 20 properties.

  • Olivia Ireland
Gulliver’s gas wells on the shores of King Sound.

They came, they drilled, they left: Fears over Kimberley gas wells as explorer bows out

Dangerous and damaged oil and gas infrastructure has been left in WA’s north. Now it’s for sale – cheap, with free double pluggers thrown in.

  • Emma Young
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Documents obtained under freedom of information show that in zones created to allow denser development, many are still building single residences.

Dutton’s pledge to curb foreign buyers is a sleeper policy with real cut-through

Australians have strongly backed a Coalition plan to stop foreign investors buying residential property,

  • The Herald's View
Voters have backed a plan to block foreign investment in the residential property market.

Voters back Dutton pledge to block foreign investors buying Australian homes

Voters across the political spectrum favour further barriers to foreign buyers as a way to help local bidders get into the housing market.

  • David Crowe
95 Broadway (near) and 89 Broadway (far) viewed in context with neighbouring developments.

Planning tick for bigger complex of ‘affordable’ units in affluent Perth suburb

An apartment building in Nedlands has been successful in its bid to boost unit numbers by more than a third.

  • Claire Ottaviano
The number of foreign buyers fell by 15 per cent in 2024.

Why foreign buyers are leaving Australia’s property market

The number of purchases by overseas buyers has slumped, with buyers from China and Hong Kong slashing their spending by a quarter.

  • Alexandra Middleton and Tawar Razaghi

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