Samantha Trayhurn

Jul 2, 2023 | overland.org.au | Scott Robinson |Murdoch Stephens |Samantha Trayhurn

In the near constant debate about housing affordability, it can be hard to distinguish empty policy chatter from genuine proposals based in well-grounded analysis. This is, in part, because property developers and businesses, along with parts of the media, run a concerted campaign to urge governments to fix the housing crisis with ‘supply-side’ solutions.

Jun 6, 2023 | overland.org.au | Murdoch Stephens |Lucy Sussex |Samantha Trayhurn

Rats are to 2023 as teen vampires were to 2008. We’ve got good rats, like Magawa the mine sniffing rat. There’s a rat czar who, unfortunately, is not a rat. And we’ve even got a rat ambassador (who is a rat) who is a legitimate chonker. We love them all. They’re just part of the wonderful cultural tableau that has settled on the rat as the hero we need. In Aotearoa New Zealand we’ve also got the Rat King Landlord which is a novel about a rat who becomes a landlord.