8 h. ago Want to hook gas up to your home? From next year, that will cost $2000

Households in NSW, ACT, South Australia and south-east Queensland must soon pay thousands of dollars upfront to get gas connected after regulators approved new rules.

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7 d. ago Australia news LIVE: House Democrats release new footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s private island; Fate of ISIS brides left to US military

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9 d. ago How one New Zealand city could fix Australia’s house price crisis

About 70 per cent of Australians live in standalone houses. A new report says one change to what owners can do with their properties could help build 1 million new homes.

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9 d. ago WA news LIVE: Perth housing market growing at ‘unsustainable’ rate per week

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1 week ago Gala glam takes over Crown Perth for Ronald McDonald House Charities ball

The hallmark event in the Ronald McDonald House Charities WA calendar brought together famous faces, business heavyweights and Perth’s social scene for a night of fundraising.

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1 week ago Ocean views, quiet neighbours and a $165,000 price tag: The other property boom

Like Australia’s housing crisis, high demand and land scarcity have led to another accommodation crunch: we’re running out of grave sites to bury our dead.

Economics

2 w. ago 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”.

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2 w. ago ‘We can fix it’: Housing affordability reaches worst levels yet

The cost of a typical Australian home has soared compared to household incomes, but experts say there’s a solution.

Politics

2 w. ago ‘We need action’: School bag protest tells stories of WA students

More than 800 school bags have been placed on the steps of Parliament House in a visual protest calling for change in Western Australia’s public education system.

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3 w. ago WA Police were called to a DV victim’s house 54 times. She was evicted for being a ‘nuisance’

The woman was evicted from her house in Waikiki in October 2023, but disputed the tenancy termination in WA’s Supreme Court earlier this week.

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3 w. ago Australia news LIVE: US House votes to release Epstein files as Trump hosts Saudi leader at White House; NSW Liberals defy federal colleagues to retain net zero target

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