Cait Kelly
Journalist at The Guardian Australia
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5 days ago |
theguardian.com | Cait Kelly
Wild surf conditions have battered beaches on Australia’s east coast, with hazardous conditions killing five people across the country over the Easter long weekend. In NSW, four people drowned and another was missing, after ex-Tropical Cyclone Tam generated massive waves across the NSW coast.
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6 days ago |
theguardian.com | Cait Kelly
When Sarah* opens her banking app, she sees an account labelled Home Saver. After years of trying to save, there’s still $0 in it. The 30-year-old works as a nurse at a major hospital in Melbourne. She normally makes between $2,100 and $2,300 a fortnight. Her last pay, because she got sick, was $1,900. “I don’t think there are any nurses in my demographic – young, single people – who are like, ‘Yep, buying a house is a realistic dream,’” she says. “I don’t know many people who are buying.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Cait Kelly
One pile for boxes, another for lamps. Then there’s the tower of yellowing newspapers, the top one dated 2003, alongside mounds of clothes, children’s toys, letters and bills that were paid years ago. The stacks of objects littering Julie’s* home in Point Cook in Melbourne’s western suburbs are neat – there are just a lot of them. The 71-year-old, who lives by herself in the home she raised her family in, hates the word “hoarder”. “It’s an awful word, isn’t it?” she says.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Cait Kelly
Australia’s national home values have surged 39.1% over the past five years, meaning the median dwelling value has increased by about $230,000, according to new CoreLogic data. House prices jumped 39.1% in the five years to March 2025, according to CoreLogic’s April Housing Chart Pack. Meanwhile, the price of an average home has grown from 4.6 times the median income in 2001, to 6.5 in 2020, before hitting a record high of 8.0 at the end of last year.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Cait Kelly
A high profile Liberal candidate who has described herself as a renter and has voiced opposition to the construction of new apartments in Melbourne, claiming that people want houses instead, has confirmed she owns two apartments in other cities. Liberal party candidate Amelia Hamer, the grand-niece of former Victorian premier Rupert Hamer, has repeatedly pitched herself as a renter to appeal to frustrated young voters in the seat of Kooyong in Melbourne’s inner east.
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Incredible areas - the liberal running in Kooyong marketed herself as a renter while owning not one, but two investment properties: https://t.co/UxetVUiHgo
