@brendan-coates.bsky.social
Introducing floor area ratios in Victoria (see link) risks making our housing crisis worse, not better.
Height limits and setbacks already manage the impacts of density. Why further restrict what can be built in the most desireable areas of Melbourne?
Height limits and setbacks already manage the impacts of density. Why further restrict what can be built in the most desireable areas of Melbourne?
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-rule-change-that-could-shield-suburbs-from-a-sweep-of-boxy-towers-20250602-p5m46r.html
t.co
June 9, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Introducing floor area ratios in Victoria (see link) risks making our housing crisis worse, not better.
Height limits and setbacks already manage the impacts of density. Why further restrict what can be built in the most desireable areas of Melbourne?
Height limits and setbacks already manage the impacts of density. Why further restrict what can be built in the most desireable areas of Melbourne?
Of all the problems facing Australia today, few have worsened so rapidly in the past 25 years as housing affordability.
But we won't reverse that trend unless we build much more of it.
My latest w Joey Moloney and Matt Bowes for @grattaninstitute.bsky.social
theconversation.com/25-years-int...
But we won't reverse that trend unless we build much more of it.
My latest w Joey Moloney and Matt Bowes for @grattaninstitute.bsky.social
theconversation.com/25-years-int...
25 years into a new century and housing is less affordable than ever
Wealth inequality in Australia has grown over the past quarter century. Surging house prices that have outpaced incomes are to blame.
theconversation.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Of all the problems facing Australia today, few have worsened so rapidly in the past 25 years as housing affordability.
But we won't reverse that trend unless we build much more of it.
My latest w Joey Moloney and Matt Bowes for @grattaninstitute.bsky.social
theconversation.com/25-years-int...
But we won't reverse that trend unless we build much more of it.
My latest w Joey Moloney and Matt Bowes for @grattaninstitute.bsky.social
theconversation.com/25-years-int...
Elections are our opportunity to set Australia’s path. Our new Orange Book report charts the path to a more prosperous Australia: the policies that should be on the agenda of whoever wins the 2025 federal election.
You can read the full report here:
grattan.edu.au/report/orang...
You can read the full report here:
grattan.edu.au/report/orang...
Orange Book 2025: Policy priorities for the federal government - Grattan Institute
Australia could be on the cusp of a new wave of prosperity – provided our political leaders confront five long-standing domestic policy challenges.
grattan.edu.au
March 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Elections are our opportunity to set Australia’s path. Our new Orange Book report charts the path to a more prosperous Australia: the policies that should be on the agenda of whoever wins the 2025 federal election.
You can read the full report here:
grattan.edu.au/report/orang...
You can read the full report here:
grattan.edu.au/report/orang...
We can expect to earn three quarters of all investment returns in the years after we retire.
Yet super funds' offerings to retirees aren't subject to the performance test, or APRA's heatmaps.
They should be.
See my latest for The New Daily with Joey Moloney: grattan.edu.au/news/retirees-….
Yet super funds' offerings to retirees aren't subject to the performance test, or APRA's heatmaps.
They should be.
See my latest for The New Daily with Joey Moloney: grattan.edu.au/news/retirees-….
https://grattan.edu.au/news/retirees-…
March 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We can expect to earn three quarters of all investment returns in the years after we retire.
Yet super funds' offerings to retirees aren't subject to the performance test, or APRA's heatmaps.
They should be.
See my latest for The New Daily with Joey Moloney: grattan.edu.au/news/retirees-….
Yet super funds' offerings to retirees aren't subject to the performance test, or APRA's heatmaps.
They should be.
See my latest for The New Daily with Joey Moloney: grattan.edu.au/news/retirees-….
3 weeks after publishing our Simpler Super report, former department secretary Andrew Podger writes:
"The priority right now is to act on the measures in this Grattan report – offering & encouraging government annuities and providing free independent advice”
www.themandarin.com.au/285909-at-la...
"The priority right now is to act on the measures in this Grattan report – offering & encouraging government annuities and providing free independent advice”
www.themandarin.com.au/285909-at-la...
February 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
3 weeks after publishing our Simpler Super report, former department secretary Andrew Podger writes:
"The priority right now is to act on the measures in this Grattan report – offering & encouraging government annuities and providing free independent advice”
www.themandarin.com.au/285909-at-la...
"The priority right now is to act on the measures in this Grattan report – offering & encouraging government annuities and providing free independent advice”
www.themandarin.com.au/285909-at-la...