📰 This means that in total 3.28 million Australians (20.7% of the workforce) were either unemployed or under-employed – an 11th straight month above 3 million people. ➡ www.roymorgan.com/findings/100... 📌 Create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/ECONOMY 👩‍🔧

$130,000! 👇 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

📰 “Simply rezoning more land won’t deliver more homes...” PIA CEO Matt Collins said. “...weakening planning just adds pressure to infrastructure, increases congestion, and makes communities worse off.” ➡ architectureau.com/articles/pla... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 These include Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, the Victorian border town Swan Hill and Tasmania’s port hub of Burnie. ➡ insight.domain.com.au/research-ins... 📌 Create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 ...over the full term, the total interest balloons from about $723,000 to more than $1.4 million. That’s an extra $700,000. ➡ switzer.com.au/the-experts/... 📌 Let’s create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 “You do see your products being copied... There is also the issue of product safety, anti-modern slavery protocols and a host of environmental, social and governance requirements..." ➡ [$] www.heraldsun.com.au/business/ada... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/ECONOMY 🪑

📰 "The pension assumes that you are a homeowner in terms of what it pays out. Even the superannuation system to a large extent assumes you will be a home owner." ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 [Despite massive densification] Unit prices in Zetland during the same time period have also grown by 92%... ➡ www.sbs.com.au/news/article... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 Even basic services such as [help with] showering require pensioners to make a financial contribution. ➡ michaelwest.com.au/pay-per-show... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/AGEING 👵

📰 ...making it more difficult to arrest canopy decline on private land. ➡ www.theage.com.au/national/vic... 📌 Let’s create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING 🌳🏡

📰 In the 12 months between June 2024 and 2025, the Australian Housing Urban Research Institute (AHURI) found rental affordability worsened in Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast. ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏘

➡️ "Polling shows the community is overwhelmingly opposed to Australia’s rapid population growth. If our political elites refuse to address issues of importance to everyday Australians, more and more will turn to political alternatives. Cue Hanson from stage right." www.crikey.com.au/2016/11/25/g...

📰 Later, many victims in the group chat said the joint accounts they had set up with their fake spouse had been shut down by the agents, and all the money inside was taken away. ➡ www.sbs.com.au/news/article... 📌Create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/POPULATION 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

📰 It comes as the owners of the heritage-protected Broadway Hotel propose to demolish the rear of the building, arguing it should be allowed to do so because its heritage value had been diminished by fire and vandalism.➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... 🤠 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING ⛪️🏫

📰Wildlife Victoria regularly receives reports of animals becoming entangled in barbed wire fences, including kangaroos, wallabies, birds, grey-headed flying foxes and sugar...➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... 📌Create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/animals_and_... 🦘

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📰 "The QCWA has had a presence in the area since 1937 and, in that time, they've done so much community work… and we still carry on that work today supporting women and their families…” ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING 🏡

📰 …only 22% of Australians are satisfied with the availability of good and affordable housing. This figure drops to only 16% for Australian aged under 34. ➡ www.therealestateconversation.com.au/news/2025/11... 📌Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 It’s a “terrible, terrible outcome for all the people in Newark Crescent”, soon to “be surrounded by these ten-storey blocks of apartments, literally over the back fence”… ➡ www.news.com.au/national/we-... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING 🏡

📰 "Foxes are already understood to be hugely adaptable, and along with cats, are the main extinction driver for most Australian species..." ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/animals_and_... 🐦

📰 The [little penguin] species went extinct locally in the 1990s after storms and predators disturbed their nests. ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/ENVIRONMENT 🐧🐧🐧

📰 Skilled immigrants should be prioritised to address the housing shortage... [and] the regions made sense for property development, given city property prices were beyond so many aspiring homebuyers. ➡ [$] www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nationa... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 💡 *Google it.

📰 They are not only overrunning roadsides, native grasslands and coastlines but... making productive farmland unviable... ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/ENVIRONMENT ⚠️

📰 The proposed changes keep decisions firmly in a minister's hands… ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/ENVIRONMENT 🐨🐸🦇

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📰 “Now Jeremy Rockliff’s [Liberal] government is being propped up by the Greens, things aren’t getting any better.” ➡ [$] www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

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📰 Among the bill’s provisions is a new power that would allow the environment minister to approve a project in breach of national environmental standards if it was deemed in the “national interest”. ➡ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/ENVIRONMENT 🌳

📰 "...there is no evidence that anyone in this government or the previous government is trying to make houses cheaper. They’re not." ➡ architectureau.com/articles/ric... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 “Housing is Australia’s biggest societal and policy challenge... We are not building enough homes... NAB recognises and embraces the opportunity we have to address this challenge.” ➡ news.nab.com.au/news/nab-s--... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

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📰Lower workforce participation as full-time workers contributes to higher ‘Extreme Risk’ of mortgage stress for ‘single women’. Only 59% of mortgage holding ‘single women’ work full-time compared to 71% of ‘single men’.➡ www.roymorgan.com/findings/100... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 Locals say the art-deco styled red brick apartment block is one of the cheapest rental opportunities in the suburb with studios costing as little as $390 per week. ➡ 7news.com.au/news/locals-... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📌The fund is under pressure for spending the equivalent of only eight Sydney homes last year... "Why isn't government investing directly in public and community housing? It's faster, cheaper, and worked the last time Australia faced a housing crisis in post war years." www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

📰 More than 20 sites in the heart of Footscray have planning permits that would deliver more than 4000 apartments, but are sitting idle, in some cases for several years, due to low confidence in the market. ➡ www.theage.com.au/national/vic... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 Raising a deposit remains the biggest hurdle for 63% of aspiring buyers... More than one in five (21 per cent) said groceries were their most worrisome bill... ➡ www.realestate.com.au/news/reveale... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/POLICIES 🏡🍅

📰 An insufficient amount of new housing when you have elevated population growth leads to higher rental costs and higher housing costs. ➡ www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/prop... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 The most striking finding was the near-universal view that Australia is in a housing crisis: 89% concurred... [but] changing planning and zoning rules to allow more high-density housing was the least popular... ➡ www.smh.com.au/business/the... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 ...the incidence of ‘problem gamblers’ has increased year-on-year for the last two years – from 1.9% in 2022-23, to 2.4% in 2023-24, and 2.9% in 2024-25. ➡ www.roymorgan.com/findings/100... 📌 Let’s create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/GAMBLING 🎰

📰 ...to a developer who wants to turn it into apartments, shops and eateries. ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... 📌 Let’s create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/anti_corruption_and_governance 🕵️‍♂️

📰 Albanese’s 5% deposit scheme is being blamed for contributing to an eye-watering $35,000 increase... Modelling suggests this policy could increase house prices by 10% in the first year alone. ➡ www.news.com.au/finance/econ... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

📰 The issue was forewarned by the EPA three decades ago... “Changes to local hydrology, like filling waterways and wetlands, has directed more urban water into fewer waterways...” ➡ www.watoday.com.au/national/wes... 📌 www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING 🏡

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📰 ...Australian farmland continued to be a magnet for overseas capital. Registered interest in Australian farmland increased to 12.7% in 2024, up 3% since 2022. ➡ www.theage.com.au/politics/vic... 📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/foreign_inve... 💰