Housing

Renters 'retreat under a mountain of blankets and sheets' to escape the cold.

Report: Renters ‘left shivering’ in cold homes through winter

A new report by Better Renting found 70% of rental homes are too cold in winter, reports Isaac Nellist.

Supermarket price gouging, Labor’s dud housing deal & Fiji marches against nuclear waste

Green Left News Podcast Ep 19: Supermarket price gouging, Labor’s dud housing deal & Fiji marches against nuclear waste

Green Left journalist’s Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS go through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.

Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Teal independent Allegra Spender and Coalition leader Peter Dutton. Im

Scrap the GST and the Stage 3 tax cuts

It's probably no surprise that the Intergenerational Report 2023 passed without much comment. It forecasts the need for greater income revenue, and that will fall to a younger generation. Sam Wainwright reports.

Labor’s national conference, child labour on the rise & Indian students resist fascism

Green Left News Podcast Ep 18: Labor’s national conference, child labour on the rise & Indian students resist fascism

Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.

Kristin O'Connell graphic

Kristin O’Connell: Labor’s housing deal will do ‘basically nothing’

National cabinet’s housing reforms will do nothing substantial for renters, Anti-poverty Centre spokesperson Kristin O’Connell told Isaac Nellist.

Antipoverty Centre's Kristin O'Connell: 'There are common sense solutions to the housing crisis'

Isaac Nellist spoke to Kristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre about the housing crisis, what Labor is doing and common sense solutions.

Communities call for binding plebiscites on NSW council demergers

Grantley Ingram from the Demerge NSW Alliance said the 2016 forced amalgamation of councils has been a “failure” and called on NSW MPs to support binding plebiscites on council deamalgamations. Pip Hinman reports.

Video: CFMEU demands Labor ban engineered stone, introduce super profits tax for housing

Construction union spokesperson Jade Ingham spoke to Alex Bainbridge about the union's demands on Labor at its national conference.

No nuclear subs, no war on China: Anti-AUKUS protest

Photos: Thousands protest AUKUS, push for housing and saving native forests at Labor conference

Thousands of people rallied against AUKUS, for forests and housing and rent reforms outside Labor's national conference. Alex Bainbridge reports.

Housing protest outside the Labor national conference, August 19

Labor fails on AUKUS, housing and taxation

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's argument that long-term government is counterposed to pro-working class policies contains major flaws, argues Alex Bainbridge.

Waterloo residents slam Labor’s housing plan

Waterloo South resident and public housing activist Karyn Brown has condemned NSW Labor’s decision to demolish and redevelop Waterloo South. Rachel Evans reports.

Margaret Kelly: Homes Victoria had other options than to evict people from their ‘lifetime home’

Margaret Kelly, who has been resisting the demolition of her home in the Barak Beacon housing estate, told a Green Left forum that the tenants thought they were in their “lifetime home”.