Voters favour deeper cuts to migration as Labor misses budget boost

Voters favour deeper cuts to migration as Labor misses budget boost

As a bruising political fight over housing and congestion continues,polling shows half of all voters want more done to curb immigration.

  • byDavid Crowe

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Warning Dutton’s housing and migration plans little more than ‘rounding error’

Warning Dutton’s housing and migration plans little more than ‘rounding error’

Economists and property industry figures say the opposition leader’s pledge to cut migration and ban foreign home buyers could make the nation poorer.

  • byAngus Thompson andDavid Crowe
The three-minute budget:Everything you need to know

The three-minute budget:Everything you need to know

Labor has unveiled its economic plan for the next four years and beyond. Here is a quick rundown of the essentials.

  • byAngus Thompson
When is a room a studio apartment? The ruling upending boarding houses

When is a room a studio apartment? The ruling upending boarding houses

Boarding houses should be allowed to have kitchenettes in tenants’ rooms,the opposition argues,as the housing crisis pushes more people into the shared-home set-ups.

  • byRachael Dexter
Unable to crack the housing market,I went looking for cocaine

Unable to crack the housing market,I went looking for cocaine

No,I’m not contemplating becoming a drug dealer,but I will need something close to a lottery win to get me out of the rental rat race.

  • byMillie Muroi
Housing system is broke and broken,but government alone can’t solve this crisis
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Housing system is broke and broken,but government alone can’t solve this crisis

No silver bullet is going to fix our housing woes,but there is now a window of opportunity through which real and significant change can occur.

  • byScott Langford
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Families lose out in Sydney’s new housing push,say planners
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Families lose out in Sydney’s new housing push,say planners

Domain sales data shows fewer than one in 10 units recently sold in the city’s inner west and Canterbury-Bankstown had more than two bedrooms.

  • byMary Ward
How an owl and a flying fox may stop the government’s housing reforms

How an owl and a flying fox may stop the government’s housing reforms

Ku-ring-gai Council is claiming the Minns government has broken the law with its plan for development in special transport hubs.

  • byAndrew Taylor
This mayor says he’s ‘more YIMBY than NIMBY’,but his council will sue the state over housing

This mayor says he’s ‘more YIMBY than NIMBY’,but his council will sue the state over housing

Ku-ring-gai mayor Sam Ngai has come under fire from the planning minister for making a legal challenge to the state’s new laws.

  • byAnthony Segaert
Australian renters would be nearly $4b better off under a rent freeze

Australian renters would be nearly $4b better off under a rent freeze

Tenants would have saved as much as $3000 over the 12 months to March,and proponents of a rent freeze say the cash would be life-changing.

  • byJim Malo
Guess who we overtook? Perth rental growth is country’s highest

Guess who we overtook? Perth rental growth is country’s highest

Landlords have hiked rents more than 70 per cent since their COVID low point,with Perth’s now the third-most expensive rental market in the country.

  • bySarah Brookes