Housing security
The issues | The fact that one of the least populated countries on Earth contains the world’s second most expensive housing is a national calamity, and a stunning failure of …
Contesting Fadden!
Chris Simpson is standing for the seat of Fadden for the Australian Democrats, motivated by the urgent need to restore accountability, listen to local voices and demand evidence-based policy. Fresh …
Burning super to force up home prices
Today’s announcement that first home buyers could use up to $50,000 of their Superannuation to buy a house has immediately added $50,000 to the price of a house.
Dynamic shift needed on housing
We have a national crisis with a lack of affordable housing across Australia. Chris Simpson, Democrats spokesperson on Housing Affordability Attempts by government to address this issue have been underfunded, …
House price graph shows the problem
House prices and debt relative to real wages continues to soar driven by investor tax breaks and low interest rates.
House prices spiral out of control as the government does nothing
Macro-prudential controls such as loan caps based on the recent taxable income of the buyers offers a way out of this situation.
Labor sells out to the top 10%
In abandoning reforms to negative gearing, capital gains tax and tax cuts for the wealthy, Labor has sold out to the wealthiest and most privileged in Australia at the expense of those …
Launched: our thousands of affordable new homes plan
House prices are spiraling are out of control, affordable housing is scarce, over 478,000 low and very low income households across Australia are in unaffordable rental housing, 100,000 Australians are …
Thousands of affordable new homes
200,000 new affordable homes, tax reform and loan caps to stop the house price spiral. More rights for tenants.
Budget: the glaring omissions
The ABC $58.6 million went to SBS, AAP, community broadcasting and the media regulator but the ABC’s funding will drop by $10 million for 2021-22. Former ABC bureaucrat, Michael Ward says the …