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Archive of parliamentary statements and platform divergences tagged with this topic.
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Australian Labor Party
Labor’s current settings include the Housing Australia Future Fund for social/affordable supply, the Australian Government 5% Deposit Scheme (expanded from Oct 2025 with no place/income caps but price caps), Help to Buy shared equity, and Commonwealth Rent Assistance for eligible payment recipients.
Australian Labor Party
Increase social and affordable housing supply, support first-home buyers, and reform planning to deliver more homes.
Australian Greens
Implement nationwide rent caps, build more public and community housing, and reform negative gearing.
Liberal Party of Australia
Liberal platform material emphasises increasing housing supply through planning and approval reform, supporting first-home buyers, and relying primarily on private construction rather than large public build funds.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
One Nation’s housing policy focuses on reducing demand by cutting immigration levels and banning foreign ownership of Australian properties. They have not specified positions on programs like the Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA), Help to Buy, or the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF).
I was fortunate to get to know Mary Gaudron while working as an associate to High Court Justice Michael Kirby.…
How many more warnings do we need before the Australian Govt takes AI risk seriously and legislates some stron…
Melbourne to Coffs Harbour without hitting a single traffic light or roundabout. That’s now possible with the…
You cannot tax your way out of a housing shortage. Labor promised their taxes would help first home buyers, bu…
More taxes, more red tape, more building insolvencies: another day in Labor’s housing crisis.
Good at covering up housing modelling. Bad at building homes. https://t.co/PvhyjzvZgK
On Nation’s raid-your-super plan will push up house prices now and make Australians poorer in retirement. http…
Superannuation is your money. The world kept spinning when the compulsory rate was 9% just a few years ago a…
Why is Chalmers covering up the $2 a week rents modelling? It’s because his new taxes are disastrous. https:/…
We need more homes, and we need to build them faster. That’s why we’re investing in crisis accommodation for…
Treasurer Tim Wilson said about house prices on a podcast in 2021
No Labor modelling of SMSF property ban. Why are they banning new housing? https://t.co/15Cc8pnBWG
Telling lies and spreading division doesn’t build a single home, or help a first home buyer. There are big c…
More homes and businesses are getting access to faster, more reliable full-fibre NBN. It means better connecti…
Labor has smashed the housing system with $77 billion in new taxes that don’t help anyone. They hurt the entir…
Two things to set your watch to: Labor/CFMEU inflating home building costs with corruption & Geelong deliv…
Deeply saddened to hear about the death of a second cyclist following an incident on Gungahlin Drive last week…
Today we're announcing a $145 million investment to build crisis housing for Victorians at those most critical…
More than 12,000 construction and building companies have entered external administration or insolvency since…
New taxes = fewer first home loans. Who's surprised? https://t.co/l80wG7Fdn5
Too many young Australians have had the same experience: “We nearly had the deposit, then prices soared out of…
The key determinant of security in retirement is whether you own your home, not the size of your superannuatio…
Labor housing taxes and red tape are driving insolvencies. They are killing the building sector. https://t.c…
Jim Chalmers blames uncertainty and conflicts on the other side of the world. The problem is economic incompe…
Labor has covered up all the modelling on 5% deposits as well as rent and supply implications from their new t…
Housing is consistently the biggest issue people raise with me - we can't afford for new supply to go backward…
Can Australia build this? It would be hard. The local, state and federal government would all try and wreck yo…
Labor’s housing policy is a potent mix: 1. Crash the market. 2. Collapse confidence. 3. Drive up rents. 4. Dr…
Labor has governed Victoria for 16 of 20 years. Now we have 500,000 potholes and Ben Carroll wants credit for…
Australia desperately needs more homes, but Labor taxes & red tape has made building uneconomic. https:/…
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