Off grid not favoured by Qld government as their giveaway of our tax money is attached to a power bill account..100% off grid , is becoming a more affordable option to many , and may have extra future benefits
BTW the government needs the power on , to monitor you all
and what if i don't favour the Government ( and half the stuff they are doing ) after all this farm chugs along nicely without town water or sewerage ( think all the carbon savings i am not getting credit for )
Greens say migration ‘not the main cause’ of Australia’s housing crisis
The Greens say migration should not be blamed for the crisis gripping the country, despite the Reserve Bank governor saying it was putting pressure on the housing market.
Michele Bullock on Tuesday said new migrants had “added to demand” and “pressure” in the housing market, but at the same time migration had contributed to labour supply.
It followed the government’s own expert housing supply and affordability council last week citing the “resumption of migration at pace” as one of the key factors that made the housing shortfall “more acute”.
But Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather, who on Thursday reiterated his calls for a nationally co-ordinated rent freeze and ongoing caps, said he did not believe migration was the “primary cause of the housing crisis”.
Greens housing and homeless spokesman Max Chandler Mather said he did not believe migration was the primary cause of the crisis gripping the country. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
He pointed instead to the “tens of billions of dollars” the government doled out to property investors, a lack of rent caps and chronic underinvestment in public housing.
“I suppose I get frustrated with this because to be perfectly frank, even if Australia’s migration was brought down to net-zero as it was during Covid, that did not solve the housing crisis,” Mr Chandler-Mather said.
In the year to September, Australia’s net overseas migration reached an estimated 518,000.
Building approvals, a leading indicator of Australia’s residential construction pipeline, meanwhile fell to just under 163,000 in the year to March 2024.
Over the coming years, the Albanese government is forecasting an annual migration growth rate of 370,000 people as the post-Covid movement stabilises.
Meanwhile, the report found Labor’s “suitably ambitious” target of building 1.2m homes over the coming five years would not be met.
Council chair Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz said there were a combination of factors that had led to the significant shortfall.
She said “deep-seated” issues with insufficient supply had become more acute due to the spike in migration, namely “rising interest rates, skills shortages, elevated construction company insolvencies, weak consumer confidence and cost inflation”.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has hinted next week’s federal budget will feature housing policies in a bid to deal with the crisis.
On Thursday, Mr Chandler-Mather said Australia needed migration and did not want to see migrants being “demonised” and blamed for the crisis.
“In the past Australia’s had high rates of migration, and it hasn’t been a problem because governments have invested in building government homes,” he said.
Mr Chandler-Mather said Australia’s housing system, which allowed people to treat homes as a “lucrative financial asset” had led to a large number of vacant homes across the country, despite record low vacancy rates.
About 10 per cent of homes were unoccupied on census night in 2021, although many of those can be explained away by short term factors.
He said banks were “far bigger culprits” than migrants.
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communists need to start to be treated to similar laws as the nazis are. Not put into government. Guys are trash.
well roof painters have a very bad name in Queensland due to what seems to be waves ( about every two years ) of wandering scammers , so yes i could see why the legit guys would struggle -- add in it is often economical to replace the roof with a different alternative and whack on solar panels in the process
@moXJO Irish and Pom gypsies.
A good article, that sums up the situation perfectly smurf.Bottom line is 2008 with the financial crisis marked a turning point with globalisation. Not the end, but a turning point which ended the trend up to that point.
As with any major shift, it takes a while for the effects to become obvious but we're starting to see it now.
www.abc.net.au
yes, I'm getting some jobs done around the property. No shortage of interest for trades , they turn up when agreed. A few times there's an extra hand on site, "Relax, you're not paying for him" . OK then.
You have to wonder if housing build numbers have dropped off a cliff?
retired , scared , left the business or just can't get investment capital , maybe all four
well between inflation ( which us old fogeys remember well ) means testing of pensions , and our enduring trust in banks ( sarcasm )
Yeah workcover are out there slapping fines like crazy, bloody grubs. I know they are making it ridiculous for sole traders as well. I actually know a few guys that were that furious with them they quit the industry. Experienced guys as well.
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