Category: Housing

On a seasonally adjusted basis, total building approvals fell by 6.5 per cent, more than reversing a 5.4 per cent rise the previous month. In the state of Queensland alone…

Sydney is in the top 10 of the world’s best cities to live, according to Mercer’s 2008 Worldwide Quality of Living Index. Ranked at number 10, Sydney came in ahead…

A Coalition of Indigenous Human Services is set to be established to provide Indigenous Queenslanders with more responsive supports.   As part of the Indigenous service delivery reforms, the $1 million…

The 2008 Local Government Association of Tasmania (LGAT) Conference, held at the Country Club in Launceston from 18 – 20 June, kicked off with the LGAT General Meeting and AGM….

Faced with imminent challenges, the 96th Tasmanian Local Government Conference has provided councils with an opportunity to transform new questions into concrete strategies. Over two hundred elected members, general managers…

Housing sustainability is the issue that “literally go to the heart of how we live”, the state’s planning minister Paul Lucas said, putting forward a proposal to toughen sustainability measures…

The Housing Affordability Fund (HAF) is a $512 million fund that aims to lower the cost of building new homes by targeting critical supply side issues including the length of…

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the formation of a National Policy Commission to help provide more housing in remote Indigenous communities. “In my National Apology speech I committed the…

The Western Australian Government is doing its bit for housing affordability, with a groundbreaking plan to increase rental properties in the inner city by 2011. The plan, which is believed…

The first budget of the incoming Rudd Government targets infrastructure and foreshadows significant spending but ‘what will be built, where, by when and who and how will priorities be determined?”…