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Voters are turning away from the Labor state government. Will it sink Anthony Albanese’s re-election hopes?

The Allan key: Has the state government unlocked fortress Victoria for the Libs?

Victoria has long been Labor’s progressive citadel, an electoral stronghold across state and federal politics. But the red wall may be crumbling.

  • Shaun Carney

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Housing Minister Harriet Shing outside the former VicRoads site.

Crumbling facade, no balconies: The push to turn a ’60s concrete bunker into homes

The facade is falling away and the windows are tiny – this is a building that is showing its age. So, transport nerds, would you want to live inside the former VicRoads offices in Kew?

  • Tom Cowie
The proposed STH BNK development.

$2.7 billion plan to build Australia’s tallest tower falters

Five years on, after buyers paid deposits for 80 per cent of its planned apartments, the STH BNK project in Melbourne’s Southbank still doesn’t have a builder.

  • Nasteho Said and Anders Melin
Premier Jacinta Allan, Housing and Building Minister Harriet Shing, and then premier Daniel Andrews.

Victoria falls 20,000 short on home-building target

New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown the Victorian government falling well short of its building target of 80,000 homes a year.

  • Rachel Eddie
Development in Rosehill, NSW.

Why can’t we build enough houses?

The housing crisis has become a perennial issue in Australia and is top of the list for many voters.

  • Gemma Grant
Young Sydneysiders Matthew Thrum, Greens councilor Bonnie Harvey and Zachary Moore aren’t impressed with the major parties housing policies.

We asked young Sydneysiders about Labor and the Coalition’s housing plans. They weren’t impressed

Young people who feel locked out of the property market say neither of the major parties’ strategies will help solve Sydney’s housing crisis.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Cindy Yin
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Judy Mundey looks up at a mural that shows her late husband Jack Mundey - in the upper right with a loudspeaker - a leader of the Builders Labourer Federation and the green ban movement which saved the ’Loo for working-class people and defeated a proposal for highrise.

These murals honour Sydney’s hero of heritage. Will they be preserved themselves?

Murals depicting the Woolloomooloo community joining unions to save the historic area from development are fading. And not everyone wants them repainted.

  • Julie Power
Building defects across Sydney.

Search for buildings with defect notices across Sydney

Building defects cost homeowners north of $700m a year. These are the rectification orders issued in the past four years.

The builder has denied allegations of defective work.

Warning issued over ‘potentially unsafe’ homes in Melbourne’s south and west

The regulator has said allegations were so concerning it had taken the unprecedented step of naming a builder under investigation

  • Grant McArthur
Maria and John Tsolakis bought an apartment in 2021 but it has had multiple defects which have resulted in multiple water leaks and mould issues in their Ettalong Bay townhouse.

Maria thought her townhouse was ‘perfect’. Then her bedroom ceiling began to drip

Defects are being kept out of strata reports and the building commission is removing defects notices from public view - all of which creates a trap for prospective buyers such as the Tsolakis family.

  • Anthony Segaert

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