Jackson Hewett

1 week ago | thewest.com.au | Ellen Ransley |Jackson Hewett

Labor and the Coalition have shirked questions about how to define “sustainable” house price growth and failed to provide certainty on supply-side targets in a heated debate. Going head-to-head at the National Press Club, Housing Minister Clare O’Neil and her Coalition counterpart Michael Sukkar on Wednesday traded barbs, accusing each other of overseeing the housing crisis while talking up their respective policy offerings.

2 months ago | thewest.com.au | Danielle Le Messurier |Jackson Hewett

They are the five words Australians battling to get by didn’t want to hear, but the Reserve Bank governor has made it clear that prices won’t be coming down. Michele Bullock delivered the bad news on Friday, warning that despite inflation being reined in, the 18 per cent rise in prices seen since the start of the pandemic-induced cycle was here to stay.