A Future Made in Australia: The devil is in the execution


Sandy Plunkett
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Australia’s median house price reached another record high of $1.113 million this week, ($1.6 million in Sydney) representing an annualised rate rise of more than 7 per cent, despite interest rates being the highest in more than a decade.

Australia’s rental prices also continue their unrelenting rise amid record supply scarcity, prompting economists to conclude crisis is inadequate to describe what’s happening in housing.

Australia’s economy meanwhile grew a tepid 0.2 per cent in the last quarter of 2023 and a meagre 1.5 per cent over the year, the slowest annual rate of economic growth since the 1990’s recession, excluding the pandemic and the introduction of the GST in 2000.

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