Media Statements

Housing Minister Julie Collins has today announced that outgoing Mirvac boss Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz will head up the interim National Housing Supply and Affordability Council. The Government released their draft housing legislation yesterday, with the consultation period...

Updated analysis by the Parliamentary Library estimates that renters across Australia would be $10.7 billion better off if rents had been frozen nationwide for the past 12 months. With rents having increased by 21.5%...

Lines attributable to Max-Chandler Mather MP, Greens spokesperson for Housing and Homelessness: Today we’re calling on the Prime Minister to urgently convene a national cabinet meeting with an aim to begin discussions on desperately...

Analysis by the Parliamentary Library suggests that only 2.02% of the one million homes the government’s Housing Accord aims to build over 5 years would be affordable. Excluding the 20,000 social homes the Government...

According to analysis performed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, the cost of negative gearing will skyrocket as interest rates rise, reaching $97 billion over the next decade. Meanwhile the cost of capital gains tax...

Lines attributable to Max Chandler-Mather MP, Greens spokesperson for housing and homelessness: Over the last five years the private sector built just under 1 million homes, so Labor announcing that under their plans the...

Students, families and community members will rally at East Brisbane State School this morning to fight for the future of their school, under threat from plans to demolish and rebuild the Gabba stadium for...

With the Greens likely to be in balance of power on Labor’s forthcoming housing bill, the Australian Greens Party Room has formally empowered Greens Leader Adam Bandt and Housing and Homelessness Spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather,...

Analysis by the Parliamentary Library estimates that renters across Australia would be $7.1 billion better off if rents had been frozen nationwide for the past 12 months. With rents increasing by 14% nationwide, the...

Today the Scottish government has announced they are freezing rents for all public and private rental properties until March 2023 and banning evictions over winter, to protect Scottish renters from the impacts of a...