Housing has jumped to the front of the political queue again, thanks to the leadership ructions in the conservative parties that in large part rest on the anti immigration sentiment that’s blamed for high prices.
Another thing that will soon take centre stage in the housing wars is the mooted rise in capital gains tax.
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“The national project to make housing more affordable is focused entirely on increasing supply [and] … The plan for meeting the supply target is to change planning laws and allow more density in middle suburbs…” So wrote revered Australian economic analyst, Alan Kohler, in 2025.
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This is a rich, incisive and informative book. You will learn a great deal from reading it. It is most of all a story about the world’s struggle to contain the epic threat of climate change, told by a peerless guide.
This is a book that describes “what the risk of climate change is all about, how climate-change diplomacy developed from the late 1980s ...
This week, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) released its 2026 Planning Blueprint Scorecard, leading the Planning Institute of Australia to clap back on these “scores”, calling them out for putting out a confusing message that can be mistaken for actual planning system performance.
The HIA “scorecard” called out states “stuck in a business as ...
Did we say Australia was going to look very good to overseas investors with the incendiary chaos occurring elsewhere in the world?
The latest piece of news to back that up is the acquisition by the US based Colliers of Ayesa, the Spanish company that bought engineering firm ADP just 12 months ago.
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Town Hall was not an isolated event, rather the end point of a longer process to redefine dissent as risk, writes Andrew Brown. Power does not begin with force. It begins with permission. By the time the baton is raised, the public has already been prepared to accept it. What
There’s an old joke that marriage is picking the person you’ll spend forever asking, ‘Any thoughts on dinner?’
What to eat is just one of an estimated 35,000 decisions humans make each day.
To make decisions more efficiently humans use heuristics or mental shortcuts. Heuristics are used to make inconsequential decisions but also to reduce the cognitive ...
While Palantir is busy poking its nose in everyone’s business, it doesn’t want us looking into its own, having failed to lodge audited financial statements. Stephanie Tran reports. Last week, data surveillance firm Palantir secured a $7.6m contract with the Department of Defence’s Cyber Warfare Division, according to reporting by
Thanks to an unprecedented lift in public funding in the 2020s, an extra 55,000 new, good quality homes around Australia will be available to people on the lowest incomes by 2030. That’s almost triple the increase of 20,000 homes in the previous decade.
Residents in these modern “social” homes will generally pay only 25 per cent of their income in ...
Developer Stockland said this week that it has achieved net zero scope 1 and 2 emissions across all its operations, thanks to a large scale deployment of onsite rooftop solar across more than 50 buildings and retiring a small amount of nature based carbon offsets.
According to chief executive Tarun Gupta, what was previously “idle roof space” now ...
The Albanese Government has obligations under law to make a legal determination about Israel’s genocide. Where is it? asks Kellie Tranter. In the aftermath of President Herzog’s visit to Australia, which arguably undermined social cohesion, it is worth reminding the Australian government that Australia’s obligation to prevent genocide and duty
Capital gains tax is once again the subject of parliamentary debate, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers declining to rule out options for reform.
Along with negative gearing, the capital gains tax discount has long been suggested as one cause of Australia’s housing affordability crisis.
The tax applies to the capital gain when an asset is held for more than a ...
Housing has jumped to the front of the political queue again, thanks to the leadership ructions in the conservative parties that in large part rest on the anti immigration sentiment that’s blamed for high prices.
Another thing that will soon take centre stage in the housing wars is the mooted rise in capital gains tax.
Sign up for our free ...
“The national project to make housing more affordable is focused entirely on increasing supply [and] … The plan for meeting the supply target is to change planning laws and allow more density in middle suburbs…” So wrote revered Australian economic analyst, Alan Kohler, in 2025.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact ...
This is a rich, incisive and informative book. You will learn a great deal from reading it. It is most of all a story about the world’s struggle to contain the epic threat of climate change, told by a peerless guide.
This is a book that describes “what the risk of climate change is all about, how climate-change diplomacy developed from the late 1980s ...
This week, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) released its 2026 Planning Blueprint Scorecard, leading the Planning Institute of Australia to clap back on these “scores”, calling them out for putting out a confusing message that can be mistaken for actual planning system performance.
The HIA “scorecard” called out states “stuck in a business as ...
Did we say Australia was going to look very good to overseas investors with the incendiary chaos occurring elsewhere in the world?
The latest piece of news to back that up is the acquisition by the US based Colliers of Ayesa, the Spanish company that bought engineering firm ADP just 12 months ago.
Sign up for our free ...
Town Hall was not an isolated event, rather the end point of a longer process to redefine dissent as risk, writes Andrew Brown. Power does not begin with force. It begins with permission. By the time the baton is raised, the public has already been prepared to accept it. What
There’s an old joke that marriage is picking the person you’ll spend forever asking, ‘Any thoughts on dinner?’
What to eat is just one of an estimated 35,000 decisions humans make each day.
To make decisions more efficiently humans use heuristics or mental shortcuts. Heuristics are used to make inconsequential decisions but also to reduce the cognitive ...
While Palantir is busy poking its nose in everyone’s business, it doesn’t want us looking into its own, having failed to lodge audited financial statements. Stephanie Tran reports. Last week, data surveillance firm Palantir secured a $7.6m contract with the Department of Defence’s Cyber Warfare Division, according to reporting by
Thanks to an unprecedented lift in public funding in the 2020s, an extra 55,000 new, good quality homes around Australia will be available to people on the lowest incomes by 2030. That’s almost triple the increase of 20,000 homes in the previous decade.
Residents in these modern “social” homes will generally pay only 25 per cent of their income in ...
Developer Stockland said this week that it has achieved net zero scope 1 and 2 emissions across all its operations, thanks to a large scale deployment of onsite rooftop solar across more than 50 buildings and retiring a small amount of nature based carbon offsets.
According to chief executive Tarun Gupta, what was previously “idle roof space” now ...
The Albanese Government has obligations under law to make a legal determination about Israel’s genocide. Where is it? asks Kellie Tranter. In the aftermath of President Herzog’s visit to Australia, which arguably undermined social cohesion, it is worth reminding the Australian government that Australia’s obligation to prevent genocide and duty
Capital gains tax is once again the subject of parliamentary debate, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers declining to rule out options for reform.
Along with negative gearing, the capital gains tax discount has long been suggested as one cause of Australia’s housing affordability crisis.
The tax applies to the capital gain when an asset is held for more than a ...
