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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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 ...
COMMENT: You have to hand it to the head honchos at JLL. The person they chose to lead and start the repair process after a damaging period for the top tier property consultancy could not have a cooler, more no-nonsense image. And one deeply embedded in sustainability.
About a century ago, when beautiful women graced the front desks of the big real ...
When we spoke to Nicole Sullivan recently, the Sydney based impact director at New Zealand’s materials specialist thinkstep, had just returned from a trip to head office to set the strategic scene for the year ahead. We’re still in tea-reading mode, so wanted to hear her views on how the industry might fare this year.
Nicole Sullivan has been deeply ...
Cercle is a free-to-use reusable coffee cup system operating across commercial spaces in Australia. While many organisations want to adopt circular economy principles, BYO initiatives often fall short — because people simply forget their reusable cups.
Instead, Cercle removes the friction. Users enjoy their drink as usual and return the cup to a ...
If you want to know what the focus will be this year for the many – and may we say, growing number – of businesses engaged in creating a more sustainable built environment, it’s hard to go past the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council which is one of Australia’s few (or only?) umbrella group that brings together a united voice across all ...
Poor and slow community engagement is causing local resistance and the collapse of social licence, putting renewable energy transition at risk of bottlenecks – especially in regional and rural communities.
Last year, Rok Solid, a renewable land brokerage firm, said smaller renewable energy developers are taking on the heavy lifting by getting ...
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 ...
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 ...
COMMENT: You have to hand it to the head honchos at JLL. The person they chose to lead and start the repair process after a damaging period for the top tier property consultancy could not have a cooler, more no-nonsense image. And one deeply embedded in sustainability.
About a century ago, when beautiful women graced the front desks of the big real ...
When we spoke to Nicole Sullivan recently, the Sydney based impact director at New Zealand’s materials specialist thinkstep, had just returned from a trip to head office to set the strategic scene for the year ahead. We’re still in tea-reading mode, so wanted to hear her views on how the industry might fare this year.
Nicole Sullivan has been deeply ...
Cercle is a free-to-use reusable coffee cup system operating across commercial spaces in Australia. While many organisations want to adopt circular economy principles, BYO initiatives often fall short — because people simply forget their reusable cups.
Instead, Cercle removes the friction. Users enjoy their drink as usual and return the cup to a ...
If you want to know what the focus will be this year for the many – and may we say, growing number – of businesses engaged in creating a more sustainable built environment, it’s hard to go past the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council which is one of Australia’s few (or only?) umbrella group that brings together a united voice across all ...
Poor and slow community engagement is causing local resistance and the collapse of social licence, putting renewable energy transition at risk of bottlenecks – especially in regional and rural communities.
Last year, Rok Solid, a renewable land brokerage firm, said smaller renewable energy developers are taking on the heavy lifting by getting ...
