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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.

Master Builders Australia, the peak building and construction industry, has called on the banks to pass on in full the 100 basis point reduction in the cash rate by the central bank. The group said there is no case for the banks to withhold the benefits of lower interest rates to both households and builders. [...]