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Financial pressure for first home buyers and renters in Australia is rising rapidly according to the AAH (Australians for Affordable Housing). The cost of housing has continued to rise despite no rise in the average income for most households. With rent or mortgage payments taking as much as 50% of the take home pay for [...]

Native gardens grow plants that naturally occur in the area. These take little more than a rainwater tank or natural rainfall to maintain because the plants have long since adapted to their environment. They need no fertilizer because their very shape and substance exists as a result of the particular mix of nutrients found in [...]

To keep interests low and to provide affordable housing, Australia has to make it a priority to develop residential land, and to build homes to an over supply situation. That will have to mean developing new more efficient methods of developing land and building homes.

Waiting lists for people with disabilities are critically high, for example at at the moment we have the situation where there are 1153 people with disabilities waiting for public housing accommodation in Tasmania alone.