GENERAL NEWS
THE Albanese government has finally won support from the Greens for its $5.5 billion Help to Buy scheme and built-to-rent subsidy bills – which, after a year of haggling, will be...
The Help to Buy scheme will allow for lower deposit requirements for up to 40,000 first homebuyers with the help of a government loan guarantee...
The Greens and Coalition had teamed up throughout the year to push back on the bills, defying Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s threat of a double dissolution election in...
The Greens had demanded freezing and capping rents, “ending tax handouts for property investors that stop renters buying their first home”, and establishing a government...
There comes a point where you’ve pushed as far as you can. We tried hard to get Labor to shift on soaring rents and negative gearing, but we couldn’t get there this time...
We’ll wave the housing bills through and take the fight to the next election, where we’ll keep Peter Dutton out and then push Labor to act on unlimited rent rises and...
The Greens and Coalition – dubbed the “Noalition” by Albanese – had joined forces in 2023 to stall the government’s $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund initiative...
Last year the Greens secured $3 billion for social housing, six times what Labor originally planned to spend, and we hoped we could secure a similar outcome this time...
We have pushed as hard as possible to get Labor to do more than tinkering around the edges of this devastating housing crisis in this term of parliament, but in the end we...
Labor’s win comes as a Roy Morgan poll shows the government has regained the edge over the Coalition on a two-party preferred basis. ALP primary support recovered this week...
Roy Morgan’s latest federal voting intention follows Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s trips to the to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and Group of 20 leadership forums in...
The Roy Morgan Poll has observed over many years that leaders often receive a lift in support when meeting with important global leaders – although this effect usually proves...
When preferences from this week’s survey are allocated based on how Australians voted at the 2022 federal election, the two-party preferred result moves slightly further in...
In what is potentially the last sitting week before a federal election in 2025, Labor is hoping to shove through raft of bills through Parliament, including setting a minimum age limit of...