Australian Institute for Progress

Publications

• Cross River Rail: privatisations, cost over-runs, and no patrons

  The private part of the partnership buys the rights to the system for 24 years for $1.5 Bn, and then allows Queensland Rail to use it for a payment over the same period of $2.4 Bn, plus another $2.4 Bn for maintenance.

• Fact Bite #2

  Mark Butler made 4 claims about electric vehicles, each of which was incorrect.

• Housing affordability – the deposit gap

  This analysis shows the major issue with housing affordability is the time it takes to save a deposit, not negative gearing, and that mortgage repayments themselves are quite affordable by the standards of the last 23 years.

• Housing affordability index December 2019

  With the release of the December 2019 quarter figures by the ABS we have just released our most recent housing affordability report. Housing affordability in most cities remains within historically comfortable limits, so this month we also looked at one probable effect of the COVID-19 pandemic – mortgage stress.