Subsidised apartments for musicians may seem laughable amid Australia's housing crisis, but this country has done it — and experts say Australia could too.

When the very wealthy pay less tax than a bus driver or an aged care worker, something is very wrong * One Big Idea is a series on how to transform Australia’s economy in the lead-up to Jim Chalmers’ economic roundtable * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Unions want to tackle intergenerational inequality by reforming Australia’s tax system. For the first time in living memory, younger Australians risk facing lower living standards than those before them. This is not acceptable to the union movement, so our one big idea is to rebalance the tax system so that productivity gains are fairly shared, housing becomes more affordable, and essential services are properly funded. Continue reading...

As the city’s homeless are ordered from their tents after sweeps by council ‘pink shirts’, some claim it is more about visibility than a ‘security issue’

Moved by stories of homelessness, a Tasmanian couple has taken it upon themselves to offer a solution to the state's housing crisis.

Horror predictions show Australia’s biggest problem is set to explode in 2025. One high profile Aussie has found himself being blamed for it all and he has hit back.

Life has never felt harder for middle Australia, yet we are, on average, amongst the wealthiest people while inequality is on the rise.

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

Court documents posted to social media show Ms Hamer received payments in 2020 and 2021 from a trust.