Detailed analysis of the ALP’s shared equity home buyer scheme shows that it is poorly designed, expensive and discriminatory, makes no difference to housing affordability and the cost has already almost doubled.
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Australian Housing Affordability Index September 2021
The latest Australian Institute for Progress Housing Affordability Index shows housing affordability improved slightly in the September Quarter, 2021. This was as a result of price falls in Melbourne, while they stayed almost stationary in Sydney.
Record unaffordability looms and points to downturn even without rate rises
House prices are likely at a peak, with or without interest rate rises, as they nudge levels of unaffordability last seen just before the Global Financial Crisis.
Housing Affordability Index June Quarter 2021
Australia's two major cities, Sydney and Melbourne, are close to historical peaks of unaffordability, but Perth, Darwin and Brisbane are still reasonable to moderate.
Go for Olympic host city gold – and go for broke too
The Olympic business model means that host cities invariably lose out. Brisbane will need a heroic effort to avoid that fate.
Australian Curriculum Assessment and Review Authority fails Australian students
If the first sign of madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, how are we to describe the state of mind that does the same failed policy twice as hard and expects an even better result?
Victorian ‘windfall tax’ kicks entrepreneurs and home buyers
Other state governments should not copy this misguided tax, which will stymie development and push up house prices.
Photos Sixth McIlwraith Lecture 2021
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Is Queensland the laziest state?
The Queensland parliament sits less time than any other parliament. What are they trying to hide?
Exit poll Queensland 2020
What is clear is that by the end of the election, COVID-19 and the government's handling of it was the major issue for people changing their votes, as it was for Labor voters overall.
