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As the HIA advocates more Government handouts to stimulate the home building industry I wonder “has Australia’s peak housing body has lost its way?” The IMF are now saying that Government incentives, Stimulus packages and low interest rates hurt home builders and home owners because they disrupt housing sustainability. That is, they are the cause [...]

Qld home builders have seen home buyers disappear as first home buyers stay away. A lot of home builders are hurting right now, especially in Queensland, where the sale of new homes could be 20% down on 2010, itself a down year. Whilst first home buyers have not been a major force in new home [...]

Clouds reflect solar radiation back into space. Whiter clouds reflect more solar energy back into space, cooling the Earth. So the science says. Cloud whitening is just one of a range of strategies known as “geoengineering”. Can this science it make Australia a cooler more comfortable place to live in and help us reduce carbon [...]

Interest Rates stay as they are as the RBA steers Australia through a turbulent time. The housing Industry would have breathed a sigh of relief yesterday afternoon as the RBA board decided to leave interest rates unchanged for what is now a record period under RBA Governor, Glenn Stevens. Arab Nation unrest together with the [...]

Home builders australia wide are doing it tough as home buyers shun high land prices. Land prices have hit the ridulous in Queensland, and this is where the pain for the construction industry is worst. There is no other reason but too higher land prices that I can see for people to stop wanting to [...]

First home buyers stop buying land. So who’s to blame? The home builder, the land developer or the Government? I have been warning for months that the price of land is too dear for first home buyers. And I was at least two years too late, because the Rudd Governments tripling of the First Home [...]

Is Global Warming caused by heat retained in our homes & other buildings & can white roofs cool our planet? The more I read about carbon and global warming, the more I think that a big part of global warming is the rise and rise of urban and city sprawl with buildings and roads that [...]