Australia needs a solution to its rising house prices, which have jumped dramatically thanks to the laws of supply and demand, writes Tom Elliot. Is reducing immigration the answer?
Housing affordability
Aussie mateship: buying homes together
Okay, so obviously the First Home Owners Grant just pushes up the price of real estate, but if you are still interested in cashing in on it, consider buying a home with a friend. Just pay attention to the legal nitty gritty.
Political snippets: Will the housing boom continue?
Home owners mini-boom bubble to burst? Global warming by any other name, don’t worry about the features, check the news.
ABS housing figures: first home buyers boom goes through the roof
The boosts to the first home buyers grants for new and existing housing have had a dramatic impact on levels of demand in the housing sector.
Crikey Counterpoint: the Australian property market
Australia’s residential property market delivered a resilient performance during the first quarter, with the RP Data-Rismark National Dwelling Value Index rising 1.6%, writes Christopher Joye. Poppycock, says Adam Schwab.
First home owner grant: just making vendors richer
The first home owners grant, especially in its boosted form, is not a policy which benefit first home buyers, but one which will lock them into a lifetime of possibly unserviceable debt.
First Home Buyer Grant working for whom?
The first home buyers grant has gone straight into higher house prices, writes David Ember.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Rudd a reluctant bank critic … Back to their best … The vanquished and the victor.
RBA leaves rates on hold
Signs that global economic activity is easing are unlikely to have a big impact on interest rates either here or overseas in the immediate term, writes Glenn Dyer.
House prices are falling … it’s official
The ABS figures on Australian house prices for the June quarter confirm what we all know, writes Glenn Dyer.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Alexander Downer … ABC Learning … Gippsland … the National Film and Sound Archive … offensive words and censorship …
Gippsland votes against the tough decisions
What a shock result in Gippsland! A deeply rural electorate, one that repeatedly re-elected the profoundly thick Peter McGauran, has returned a Nationals candidate yet again, writes Bernard Keane.
Briefly Business: Property, gloom in june, TiVo
Insider trading … Property moves … Gloom in June … $699 for a TiVo — tell ‘em they’re dreaming.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
The housing affordability crisis … Brendan Nelson and the Democrats … Zimbabwe …polygamy … climate change …
Fixing politics: the housing affordability crisis
Housing affordability in Australia is one of those big, complex issues that governments find so difficult.
FY08: less than a bottler for our finance “experts”
There are good years, there are bad years, and then there is financial year 2008. Adam Schwab casts his eye over bad year in the life and times of our finance experts.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Urban Taskforce Australia … housing affordability … inflation … the Anglican church … Melbourne can live without the F1 …
Ten really clever ideas for fixing inflation
There are more cures to Australia’s economic ills than the new government is letting on. Thomas Hunter asked a group of leading economists for their ideas on lowering inflation and reassuring the stockmarket.
Crikey Crib Sheets Part 1: Policy Comparisons
Presenting your cut-out-and-keep guide to what each party stands for on a range of key policy areas.
No new supply in either housing policy
Both Labor and the Coalition have now committed to setting up special low-tax savings accounts for Australians to buy their first home. Anna Tweeddale and Ben Eltham argue they may actually make housing affordability worse.
Rudd’s first home owner saver account: useless
Labor’s plan to combat housing affordability, like most political solutions to an economic problem, will almost certainly be utterly useless. The problem with housing affordability is a simple demand and supply equation – more people are moving to major Australian cities than dwellings are being constructed.
MacCormack: Be wary of politicians talking about selling land
Talk, nay hyperbole, from both parties obscures the fact that neither side wants to do anything serious about housing affordability, writes David MacCormack.
Crikey Policy Comparison Pt 2: Housing affordability
The housing affordability crisis has been front and centre of this campaign, and when it comes to the two major parties, it’s come down to the battling for the votes of first time home owners. Each party is promising to help save for that much needed deposit, the question is how?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Home loans and affordability … Brough’s bulldozing backyard blitz … Julia Gillard was a union lawyer, so what? … Labor preferences … government ads … Rugby World Cup …
‘CrateGate’, citizen journalists join election action
For those who wonder whether the Australian blogosphere and “citizen journalism” will ever make a difference to politics, “CrateGate” – a mini controversy generated on the You Decide 2007 site - is providing some thought provoking material.
