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Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it

  • Written by: Dallas Rogers, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
imageThe financialisation of housing has become central to wealth creation in Australian households.Andrey_Popov from www.shutterstock.com

A recent United Nations report on the right to adequate housing identifies the financialisation of housing as an issue of global importance. It defines the financialisation of housing as:

… structural changes...

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NDIS housing rules for people with a disability could be life-changing

  • Written by: Libby Callaway, Senior Lecturer, Occupational Therapy Department, School of Primary and Allied Healthcare, Monash University

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (Specialist Disability Accommodation) Rules were tabled in federal parliament in mid-March. The new rules offer the possibility of an inclusive Australian society that enables those people with the highest disability-related support needs to have equal access to mainstream services including housing.

The rule...

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Flying into uncertainty: Western Sydney's 'aerotropolis' poses more questions than answers

  • Written by: Robert Freestone, Professor of Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW
imageThe uncertainties about the new Badgerys Creek airport in Western Sydney are raising many questions that only good governance can resolve.from www.shutterstock.com

While Melburnians sombrely reflect on the risks of intensive commercial development near airport runways, Sydneysiders are enthusiastically scoping the development spin-offs that will...

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Here's how much it would cost the government to pay everyone who takes care of family with mental illness

  • Written by: Sandra Diminic, Adjunct Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
imageA study has for the first time provided a detailed profile of who mental health carers are and what they doRachel Young/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Primary carers for people with mental illness in Australia do so for an average 36 hours per week – yet this work is not officially acknowledged and largely goes unpaid.

A report by Mind Australia and the...

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  2. 'Empowerment' feminism is not working – we need a far more radical approach to gender equality
  3. Did Indigenous warriors influence the development of Australian rules football?
  4. Snowy hydro scheme will be left high and dry unless we look after the mountains
  5. How we edit science part 4: how to talk about risk, and words and images not to use
  6. The US just made flying harder for millions. Tips for dealing with the laptop ban
  7. National Science Statement a positive gesture but lacks policy solutions: experts
  8. Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do
  9. Western Australia's welcome engagement in Asia has been a long time coming
  10. Swisse cheese: there are too many holes in complementary medicine regulations already
  11. Film review: A Plastic Ocean shows us a world awash with rubbish
  12. Commercialise my footy: how the AFL's grip on the game shrinks the fans' role
  13. You can't rely on fish oil supplements in pregnancy to make your children smarter
  14. Proposed changes may confuse rather than clarify the meaning of Section 18C
  15. The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
  16. Trump's credibility takes a hit as FBI finds no evidence of Obama 'wiretap'
  17. How to reduce dependency on drugs like Valium with alternative therapies
  18. How electric cars can help save the grid
  19. How we edit science part 3: impact, curiosity and red flags
  20. In a miserable year, the Adelaide Festival brought us joy
  21. Conservatives have captured Turnbull for culture war crusade
  22. Coalition rebounds in Newspoll following Snowy announcement, but Essential moves to Labor
  23. Section 18C change appears doomed in Senate
  24. Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first
  25. How healthy soils make for a healthy life
  26. After the Catalyst arts funding mess, many questions remain
  27. To be ill is human: why normalising illness would make it easier to cope with
  28. Homophobia is harmful to workers and businesses
  29. The government's multicultural statement is bereft of new ideas or policies – why?
  30. Interculturalism: how diverse societies can do better than passive tolerance
  31. How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action
  32. Apocalypse now: wifi and radiation sickness sweeping the world
  33. We still don't know how 'America First' will play out in Asia
  34. How we edit science part 2: significance testing, p-hacking and peer review
  35. After the robo-debt debacle, here's how Centrelink can win back Australians' trust
  36. Infographic: the truth behind Centrelink's waiting times
  37. Higher child support doesn't lead to welfare dependency for single mums
  38. When politicians listen to scientists, we all benefit
  39. Government needs to front up billions, not millions, to save Australia's threatened species
  40. What we may think are the healthiest bread and wrap options actually have the most salt
  41. Grammarians rejoice in the <br>$10 million comma</br>
  42. Secrecy on land titles registry sale helps keep bidders' tax haven links quiet
  43. How do you remember a rock god? The complicated legacy of Chuck Berry
  44. Contested spaces: the 'long-grassers', living private lives in public places
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  46. Government cracks down on secret company payments to unions
  47. When things go wrong in an automated world, would we still know what to do?
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