📰 Australia's property market enters downturn as prices fall for first time in three years | “We have a somewhat perfect storm of low affordability, low sentiment toward housing, a weakening economy with productivity growth terrible, reduced incentives to invest in housing, relatively high interest rates and high inflation that looks set to continue for some time." ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-23/australia-housing-market-downturn-property-prices-decline/106939050

📣 See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing and Rent Affordability policies here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 The NSW premier is laser-focused on one political opponent. It’s not the Coalition | “People are telling pollsters they would vote for One Nation, but they aren’t actually voting. And there’s a reason One Nation doesn’t yet have any candidates… For as long as the party remains a blank canvas onto which voters can project their grievances, it can be everything to everyone.” ⤵️  www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/the-nsw-premier-is-laser-focused-on-one-political-opponent-it-s-not-the-coalition-20260722-p60hft.html

📣 *Sustainable Australia Party has 30+ detailed, evidence-based policies ready to go. Australia deserves better than the circus 👇 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/policies

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📰 How a Sydney developer bypassed council to gain approval for 250 homes | “Tavakoli is one of a growing number of developers to turn up on the books of Iemma’s registered lobby firm Iemma Patterson Premier Advisory since Labor won the state election in 2023.” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-a-sydney-developer-bypassed-council-to-gain-approval-for-250-homes-20260719-p60gli.html

📣 See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing and Rent Affordability policies here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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Listen to Sustainable Australia Party's founder William Bourke talk affordable housing, planning and development. Find Sustainable Australia Party policies on Housing & Rental Affordability and Planning & Development here 👇

www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/policies

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📰 One Nation proposes government-backed 30-year fixed mortgages | “He said the scheme was “an exceptionally risky policy”, noting that “you’d be transferring all of that risk onto the government’s balance sheet, and not just for borrowers that you’ve deemed to be needy, but for all borrowers”. ⤵️ www.theadviser.com.au/borrower/48672-one-nation-proposes-government-30-year-fixed-mortgages

📣 See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing and Rent Affordability policies here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 The premier, the developer and the string of defective Sydney buildings | “A 500-page defect report issued in 2025, which the Herald has seen, revealed faults in about one-third of all the units and cracking in concrete slabs in the complex’s common areas.” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/the-premier-the-developer-and-the-string-of-defective-sydney-buildings-20260715-p60fj7.html

📣 Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing & Rental Affordability Policy: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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‘Embarrassingly weak’: Graph shows decline in living standards under Albanese government | “Real per capita GDP has been weak over the past 20 years, as the economy got bigger mainly due to population growth, while productivity growth has “tanked”… “This is the only government in these fifty years to deliver per capita real GDP that was lower at the end of its first term than it was at the start. And now, a year into Albanese’s second term, this measure is still below its starting point.” [$] www.news.com.au/.../8dc5622951667fa1df9f9c762f5f7e6d

📣 Sustainable Australia Party’s Economic Policy: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/economy

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📰 Australia’s housing market is cooling. Perhaps our expectations should too | "Housing has become less affordable because prices have persistently grown faster than incomes. So improving affordability is unlikely to occur without slower house price growth or price declines.” ⤵️ www.theconversation.com/australias-housing-market-is-cooling-perhaps-our-expectations-should-too-286549

📣 Check out Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing and Rent Affordability policies: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 Elder homelessness on the rise as living costs escalate | “According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 19,378 Australians aged 55 and over were experiencing homelessness on Census night 2021, a 28 per cent increase from 2016.” ⤵️ www.localipswichnews.com.au/news/older-homelessness-crisis

📣 Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing and Rental Affordability: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 Homes in Sydney had an auction clearance rate of 49 per cent over the weekend, down from 69 per cent this time last year. ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/property/news/young-family-gets-a-50-000-discount-on-stylish-2-9m-greenwich-house-20260719-p60gjt.html

📣 Check out Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing and Rent Affordability policies: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 ‘We are waiting with bated breath’: gathering El Niño could be the strongest on record, BoM says | “When this phenomenon … had led to very dry periods such as the “tinderbox drought” which preceded Australia’s black summer bushfires in the summer of 2019-2020.” ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/17/record-el-nino-forecast-2027-hottest-year-on-record-bom-says

📣 Check out Sustainable Australia Party’s Environment policies ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/environment/

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📰 June ‘Real Unemployment’ in Australia up 1% to 11.7% | “Michele Levine, CEO Roy Morgan, says the latest Roy Morgan employment estimates for June show continued weakness in the labour markets with combined unemployment and under-employment continuing at a high level above 3 million for a 19th straight month” ⤵️ www.roymorgan.com/findings/10282-australian-unemployment-estimates-june-2026

📣 Check out Sustainable Australia Party’s Economic policy including how to properly measure employment and unemployment: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/economy

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📰 ‘Beyond reach’: Sydney’s owner-occupier rate slumps to 70-year low | “Around four out of 10 Sydney households are now tenants, up from three out of 10 in 2011.” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/beyond-reach-sydney-s-owner-occupier-rate-slumps-to-70-year-low-20260716-p60fqu.html

📣 See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing and Rent Affordability policies here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

📰 Meriton’s Harry Triguboff warns of real estate ‘catastrophe’ | “The 93-year-old property developer slammed the indecision surrounding Australia’s immigration strategy in an article published on the Meriton website, urging the government to boost the numbers of people moving to the country... ” ⤵️ [$] www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/work/leaders-companies/meritons-harry-triguboff-warns-of-real-estate-catastrophe/news-story/4fa2346e88b687d0522a45e51e9fa77f

📣 Check out Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing Affordability policies: ⤵️
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 Sydney renters warned of massive hikes as landlords react to tax reforms | “He argued uncontrolled migration intake, poor housing supply and the threat of interest rate increases were a perfect storm, compounded by the government’s tax reforms. ➡ [$] www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/sydney-renters-warned-of-massive-hikes-as-landlords-react-to-tax-reforms/news-story/68de6ca3434ac463d81e2108e7ca3882

📣 See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing and Rent Affordability policies here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 Anthony Albanese maps out AI future with new national framework | “Labor will develop a national framework to bring together its response to artificial intelligence as it seeks to address the technology's growing economic and social impacts.

The proposal comes amid debates over copyright, jobs and data centres, with states taking increasingly different approaches to approving the infrastructure needed to power AI.” ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-14/albanese-maps-out-ai-future-introducing-national-framework/106915094

📣*See Sustainable Australia Party’s policies on AI here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/science

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📰 Sydney rent cap: Greens propose new rent control legislation to freeze soaring costs | “The NSW Greens have pledged to cap rents… with Newtown MP Jenny Leong saying the party will aim to introduce the legislation to parliament later this year.” ⤵️ www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/sydney-rent-cap-greens-propose-new-rent-control-legislation-to-freeze-soaring-costs/news-story/0677336b8240b7758b3ada56f7783989

📣*See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing Affordability policies here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 Offshore landlords claim billions in Australian property tax write-offs | “International investors are racking up billions of dollars in tax write offs to use as negative gearing and deductions from their Aussie home profits.” ⤵️ https://www.realestate.com.au/news/offshore-landlords-claim-billions-in-australian-property-tax-writeoffs/

📣*See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing Affordability policies here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

📰 Property developers are benefitting from eased planning rules targeting 'affordable' housing | “The developers are utilising a bonus scheme NSW introduced in 2023, which lets them build up to 20 to 30 per cent above local height and density restrictions in exchange for devoting 10 to 15 per cent of the building's floor space to affordable units for at least 15 years.

"I think if you're going to have affordable housing, it should stay affordable…” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-growing-majority-say-house-prices-have-to-fall-even-owners-20260713-p60eqv.html

📣*See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing Affordability policies here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing#auspol

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📰 A growing majority say house prices have to fall. Even owners | “Sixty-one per cent of people supported a decline in property prices…” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-growing-majority-say-house-prices-have-to-fall-even-owners-20260713-p60eqv.html

📣*See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing Affordability policies here: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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🎥 WATCH: Unaffordable: Australia's broken housing promise (airing 8.30pm, 13 July) | “In an exclusive data analysis, Four Corners examined affordable housing rental listings in NSW and Victoria over eight weeks. The findings raise serious questions about how affordable housing is being defined and delivered.” ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-13/many-affordable-rental-listings-too-expensive-for-most-in-need/106902620

📣 Read Sustainable Australia Party’s policies on affordable housing: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

📰 Four Corners analysed 'affordable' rental listings. We found a reality that didn't match the promise | “Affordable housing is being defined as affordable because it's 20 per cent cheaper … than the market rent, but in many places for many households in New South Wales, that's still very unaffordable," he said. "I think the real thing you'd say is it's bullshit affordable housing.” ⤵️ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-13/many-affordable-rental-listings-too-expensive-for-most-in-need/106902620

📣 Read Sustainable Australia Party’s policies on affordable housing: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

📰 Calls grow for rent freeze as Aussies struggle to make ends meet: 'Absolutely outrageous' | “National rents are now more than 40 per cent higher than they were five years ago, with tight supply and persistently low vacancy rates continuing to put pressure on tenants.” ⤵️ www.au.news.yahoo.com/calls-grow-for-rent-freeze-as-aussies-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-absolutely-outrageous-222203302.html

📣 Check out Sustainable Australia Party’s policies for Affordable Housing: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing