Labor needs to stop treating housing like a game of monopoly. It needs to scrap the tax breaks for wealthy property investors and directly build social and affordable homes.

Reigning in investor lending growth would be celebrated by renters and aspiring home owners who otherwise feel nothing but despair as they watch a repeat bout of runaway housing price inflation.

Massive tax breaks for wealthy property investors are cooking our housing system. Negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount let cashed-up investors outbid everyday Australians — and young people are the ones paying the price.

A 95% mortgage when homes are 8x the average household income is a recipe for financial stress. Without tackling the root causes of the housing crisis - tax breaks for wealthy property hoarders - house prices will continue to spike & banks will continue to rake in the profits.

Australians are fed up with the jobs-for-the-mates mentality plaguing successive governments. This is why the Greens have always supported strengthening lobbying oversight by extending the ban on former ministers' lobbying from 18 months to 5 yrs & applying it to senior staff.

As millions face increased mortgage repayments, they're left wondering, who benefits? The banks. Every mortgage the banks make $200,000 profit. When an adviser takes a job at a bank that's a beneficiary of Labor’s policy, what are mortgage holders & FHB supposed to think?

The lucrative revolving door is shameful. It’s clear Labor cares more about the profits of the banks than 1st home buyers. In a housing crisis Labor’s scheme has driven up house prices and encouraged people to take on more debt while they compete with wealthy property investors.

The Housing Minister's "policy brain" who was pivotal to the creation of Labor’s 5 % deposit scheme, which drove up house prices in the midst of a housing crisis, is making the move to Commonwealth Bank - one of the big four banks profiting off bigger home loans.

The government’s refusal to clean up the unethical practices rife across the consultancy sector is the reason why the Greens introduced a bill to parliament. We must close the legal loopholes that allow government contractors who behave unethically to get away with it.

Political donations data shows big consulting firms are still giving large donations to the govt. It’s a conflict of interest - no wonder Labor is failing to act. Three of the Big 4 firms continue to donate to the govt - this is just wrong & Labor is refusing to take action.

So much of the Parliament’s time & resources have been spent uncovering unethical behaviour in the consultancy sector. The government was provided with clear recommendations for cleaning up the sector but instead of agreeing to them continues to greenlight unethical contractors.

Inquiries made 52 reccs between them, agreed to by Labor, Libs & Greens. They included lowering partnership caps, separating audit from non-audit services, improving whistleblower protections & not allowing PwC to tender for govt work until all ongoing investigations are over.

The solutions to the housing crisis are simple, but this isn’t it. Instead of flogging off land to private developers for massive profits, we need direct public investment in social & affordable housing. Labor needs to treat housing as a human right, not a game of monopoly.

We are in the middle of a national housing crisis, we have people on decades-long waiting lists for a roof over their head and a severe lack of public and affordable housing. These sites could deliver thousands of homes.