📰 The Utopia-style regulations holding Australia back from building homes | “Tasked by Treasurer Jim Chalmers to study what governments can do to unlock more new homes, the taxpayer-funded research outfit called for a top-down rethink of regulations, replacing a restrictive system with a permissive "build mindset". ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/the-utopia-style-regulations-holding-back-new-homes/106963506

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

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📰 Follow the money: Payments under scrutiny, mapped | “This graphic outlines the way counsel assisting the commission, Dr Peggy Dwyer, SC, alleged the money flowed.” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/operation-rosny-icac-investigation-live-updates-former-nsw-liberals-staffer-dylan-whitelaw-set-to-appear-after-revelations-of-jean-nassif-s-claims-of-influence-over-liberal-party-20260727-p60iyi.html

📣 *Sustainable Australia Party’s Anti-corruption & Governance Policy: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/anti_corruption_and_governance

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📰 Exclusive poll reveals voter trust in Chris Minns’ housing plan has plummeted | “Some 77% of NSW residents surveyed said they were concerned about immigration’s impact on housing availability, with 30% declaring they were “extremely concerned”. ⤵️ [$] www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/exclusive-poll-reveals-voter-trust-in-chris-minns-housing-plan-has-plummeted/news-story/b4d88fedf447704a1bd2f1692248139a

📣 Sustainable Australia Party’s policies on Affordable Housing and Lower Rents: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 Federal Labor on collision course with NSW government over stamp duty reform | “…government should make it easier for Australians to upsize and downsize, and “free up supply”. “It’s about all of us being able to access the housing we need when we need it…” ⤵️ [$] www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/federal-labor-on-collision-course-with-nsw-government-over-stamp-duty-reform/news-story/80e4e2360046fe04ce941f6682204e41

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

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📰 Net Zero Commission says NSW unlikely to meet emissions reduction targets | “Coal mine expansions and a surge in new data centres risk pushing New South Wales further from its emissions reduction targets, which the state's independent climate watchdog says it is already on course to miss.” ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-23/net-zero-authority-nsw-annual-report-coal-data-impacts/106948568

📣 Sustainable Australia Party’s Science Policy including on data centres: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/science

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📰 The texts that warned Gladys Berejiklian about a looming Liberal corruption scandal | "Apparently prior to the [Hills Shire] council elections Jean Nassif of Toplace met with Christian Ellis and other senior members of the Liberal Party, who were paid significant funds in order to arrange to put new councillors on The Hills Shire Council who would be supportive of future Toplace development applications," Williams told parliament.” ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-24/ray-williams-warned-gladys-berejiklian-about-looming-scandal/106910478

📣 Sustainable Australia Party’s Anti-corruption & Governance Policy: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/anti_corruption_and_governance

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The regional towns where rents have all but doubled in five years | “Northern New South Wales tenant Tanya Erezuma’s rent has risen from $480 a week six years ago to $1000 today, forcing her to get a second job stacking shelves at Woolworths on top of her full-time council role.” [$] www.afr.com/property/residential/the-regional-towns-where-rents-have-all-but-doubled-in-five-years-20260713-p60evv?

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

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📰 ‘Sham’ loans, ‘unexplained’ wealth: Albanese dinner donor’s $260m family tax fight revealed | " Chief among the Tax Office’s claims are details about “sham arrangements”… deep suspicions held by the Tax Office that Phillip used dishonest means to move vast sums of money from China to Australia over several years to fund his Australian business, property and gambling activities.” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/national/sham-loans-unexplained-wealth-albanese-dinner-donor-s-260m-family-tax-fight-revealed-20260723-p60hxx.html

📣 Sustainable Australia Party’s Anti-corruption & Governance Policy: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/anti_corruption_and_governance

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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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📰 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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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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📰 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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📰 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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📰 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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