Clare O'Neil
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- Federal budget
Secret RBA notes reveal harsh judgment of Labor’s housing policies
As Jim Chalmers fights back against claims Labor’s housing budget would not get more homes built, RBA documents reveal just what the Reserve Bank thought about Labor’s agenda.
- Paul Sakkal
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The pick-and-mix home that could cut costs and get built faster
The time to build a new home has effectively doubled over the past 30 years. A $40 million “kit-of-parts” plan could turn it around.
- Shane Wright
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- Islamic State
Medical condition of last child from IS-linked group revealed as NSW asks for funding
The records are expected to form part of Hodan Abby’s bid to return home after the rest of the cohort arrived in Australia in controversial circumstances.
- Mostafa Rachwani and Nick Newling
Senate wars rumble as Labor slammed for transparency failures
The government has claimed constant requests for documents are a ‘fishing expedition’. Others say they are vital to the democratic process.
- Nick Newling
‘Horribly, sexually violent’: How Australia’s women leaders deal with rising abuse
Women across the political spectrum are calling out the harassment that spreads online and spills into real life.
- Brittany Busch
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- Housing affordability
O’Neil reads riot act to agency as Labor seeks to keep housing probe secret
Coalition frontbencher Andrew Bragg has labelled Housing Australia, the embattled agency overseeing the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund, a “dysfunctional hellhole”.
- Paul Sakkal
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- Housing affordability
Housing Australia chair resigns before parliamentary grilling
Carol Austin was cleared of breaching the code of conduct at the organisation, but a review last year found “concerning organisational challenges”.
- Paul Sakkal
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- Go west
‘Segregated’ city: The west alone can’t shoulder housing boom, minister warns
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says wealthier inner and middle suburbs must accept new housing as Wyndham, Melton and Brimbank have done the “heavy lifting”.
- Annika Smethurst
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- Housing crisis
Labor’s housing agenda in crisis amid complaints, resignations
A senior whistleblower says a slew of top executives at the agency in charge of Labor’s housing agenda quit amid claims of bad behaviour.
- Paul Sakkal
AI and a new ‘strike team’ deployed to combat housing crisis
The federal government will fast track the assessment of 26,000 homes held up by delays in the environmental approval process as it tries to meet its targets.
- Nick Newling