The Guardian • housing
Reserve bank of Australia shirks affordable housing responsibility
A recent ABC article reports that the RBA doesn’t see its monetary policy as a solution to increasing house prices.
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Issue #2039
CPA Sunshine Coast’s first meeting
The newest branch of the CPA, the Sunshine Coast, had its first meeting on 9th January. The branch was part of the Brisbane branch before...
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Issue #2015
Canada: Dignity in death is no cure for indignity in life
At the end of April, CTV published a news item about a 31-year-old Toronto woman who was nearing final approval for a medically assisted death....
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Issue #2061
LETTER
Housing: a human right Re: “The Housing Crisis” (Guardian #2059 3rd July 2023) Dear comrade editor, Thank you, Denis Doherty, for your insightful article on...
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Issue #2007
What do you notice after a long time away?
What is like to return to Australia after two years away? What do you notice? There is a brief time – maybe a month –...
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Issue #2047
WEASEL WORDS
Warrior /ˈwriər/ (for) What comes to your mind when you hear the word “warrior?” Conan the Barbarian? Boadacea, with cool pagan woad painted on her...
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Issue #2050
HALF THE SKY
Many people are struggling to put a roof over their head for an affordable price. Current legislation at both state and federal level allows for...
Read moreWA housing crisis
Since the moratorium on evictions and rent-rises ran out at the end of March, Western Australia has been experiencing a housing crisis and a rising number of unhoused people as we head into winter.
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Issue #2058
Housing activists unite for public housing
CPA members in Sydney attended the Homes for People, Not for Profit: End the Housing Crisis rally on 17th June in support of public housing...
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Issue #2005
Communists are back in Canberra
Workers in Canberra have recently established a Canberra branch of the CPA, which hasn’t maintained a branch for several years. The new members hope that...
Read moreElection 2022: where do the major parties stand on housing?
Heading into the 2022 Federal Election on 21st May, housing is once again a major issue. The cost of housing increased by twenty-five per cent...
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Issue #2013
Queensland comrades organise! – The CPA and the lower-Northern Qld tour
On Thursday the 23rd June, we arrived in Childers, the day commemorating the Childers Backpacker Tragedy. Sixteen young people were burnt to death at the...
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Issue #2022
Canberra housing coalition kicks off
More than forty activists from across Canberra met at the Canberra Food Co-op to launch the Canberra Housing Coalition. As reported in the Guardian previously...
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Issue #2023
The rent is too high!: RAHU speaks truth to power at the Victorian state election
On 2nd September, the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) launched their state election campaign in Victoria, on the platform that “the rent is too high.”...
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Issue #2026
Strong community challenge issued to NSW and federal governments over their lack of housing vision
The NSW Government is attacking Glebe public housing again. Not satisfied with demolishing public housing in Elger, Cowper, and Franklyn Streets, now they plan to...
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Issue #2027
Canberra branch celebrates formal launch
On Saturday, members and friends met to celebrate the official launch of the Canberra branch of the CPA. Having formed earlier this year, its first...
Read more“Grants” for homeowners, but “handouts” for renters
“Living with other people, you start off in that nice accommodating phase. “Okay we’re going to get on.” You try really hard. It’s all going...
Read moreShelter a basic human right
Australia is facing a massive housing crisis. As it becomes increasingly more difficult to find affordable rental accommodation, governments are turning their backs on renters...
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Issue #2038
Record rent increases
Last year Australia recorded an overall increase in rents of 10.2 per cent, the biggest-ever rent increase recorded nationally. The cost of rent has risen...
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Issue #2009
Housing crisis in the capital
During the past 20 years of Labor and Labor-Green Territory government, Canberra has developed a reputation as “one of the most progressive cities in Australia”...
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Issue #2041
ALP housing policy is a sham!
In May 2022, the new Labor government promised an injection of $10 billion into the housing sector. In late February 2023, not a single house...
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Issue #2014
The tragedy of inaccessible housing and domestic violence
On 1st February at 11:35 PM, I was given the news that my friend, Aminah Hayat, had been allegedly killed by her husband. I had...
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Issue #2041
Housing Justice Rally
About 300 activists gathered in Sydney Town Hall on 11 February determined to make housing justice a major issue in the upcoming State election. The...
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Issue #2014
The devil in the details of the “housing crisis”
The latest Census figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have revealed that Australia had over one million unoccupied houses. This is approximately...
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Issue #2046
DINGO
The construction union, the CFMEU, has urged the Albanese government to ramp up its ambition on the Housing Australia Future Fund, which needs more investment...
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Issue #2015
The devil in the details of the “housing crisis”
In part one, we revealed that approximately one-fifth of households surveyed by the 2021 Census own nearly fifty per cent of the total amount of...
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Issue #2031
Class war budget
The budget, delivered on 25th October, is set in the context of a looming global recession, ongoing wars, rocketing prices, extreme weather events, famine, and...
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Issue #2037
Call for housing justice
Housing is looming as a major election issue in the NSW election to be held in March this year. The housing crisis extends from the...
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Issue #2009
Feet on the ground
After nine years of corrupt, anti-people, climate deniers in office, the newly elected Albanese Labor government faces many challenges. Expectations of real change are high,...
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Issue #2006
VOTE THEM OUT
The Coalition Morrison government has got to go. On Saturday 21st May vote them out! The Communist Party of Australia rejects the undemocratic electoral system...
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Issue #2072
NSW budget ‘miserly’ on housing
The 2023 NSW budget is a massive disappointment on housing. The NSW government’s miserly and inadequate approach to the housing crisis has dashed the hopes...
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Issue #2046
Budget must tackle housing crisis
Housing campaign Everybody’s Home says renters on the lowest incomes will still struggle to make ends meet with the federal government’s meagre rise in Centrelink...
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Issue #2047
Right to housing
On any given night in Western Australia over 9,000 people can be considered homeless, though many more are homeless and not counted as such. How...
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Issue #2037
Welcome to a year of struggles for working people!
This first issue of the Guardian for 2023 gives me the chance to talk about the Party’s priorities for 2023: the struggle for peace, the...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
(Far from) Abhorrent
When is it good for something to be abhorrent? When it’s the title of this amusing and inspiring zine produced by our comrades at the...
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Issue #2058
Aboriginal housing: Australia’s biggest policy failure?
The inadequate if not negligent response of governments around Australia to the critical issue of Aboriginal housing – perhaps the country’s biggest policy failure –...
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Issue #2045
NO AUKUS
Under the appalling AUKUS plan announced by US President Biden on Tuesday (Australian time), Australia will begin hosting US nuclear-powered and armed submarines from this...
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Issue #2065
FUND PUBLIC HOUSING!
The housing crisis continues to deepen with an estimated shortfall of 640,000 houses. Recent interest rate rises are still to take their toll on home...
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Issue #2067
When rent freezes over
Rent is in the news lately, for several reasons. There is a national housing crisis. The Albanese Labor government, always keen to be seen as...
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Issue #2072
What’s housing for?
The Victorian Labor government has announced a big housing plan. Around ten thousand people will be moved from their homes – with no consultation, and...
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