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Oct 16, 2026
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Housing Minister Claire O'Neill has acknowledged renters are doing it tough, but says the federal government's approach is to tackle the supply problem rather than introduce caps on rent.
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The Institute's Deputy Research Director Jack Thrower says rent caps could have a broader benefit on social cohesion and ensuring inequality doesn't get worse.
Jack ThrowerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If we let rents just keep increasing, particularly in certain areas, then we have a system where we're essentially segregating our communities by income.
Jack ThrowerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so only rich people will live in some areas and only poor people, lower income people will live in other areas.
Nairi PakaiHOST
Housing Minister Clare O'Neil has acknowledged renters are doing it tough but says the federal government's approach is to tackle the supply problem rather than introduce caps on rent.
Nairi PakaiHOST
The Institute's Deputy Research Director Jack Thrower says rent caps could have a broader benefit on social cohesion and ensuring inequality doesn't get worse.
Jack ThrowerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If we let rents just, uh, keep increasing, particularly in certain areas, then we have a system where we're essentially segregating our communities by income and some, so only rich people will live in some areas and only poor people, well, lower income people will, uh, live in other areas.
Nairi PakaiHOST
The cost of dying in Australia has increased, with funeral prices and burial plots becoming increasingly expensive.
Elisa BarwickHOST
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Elisa BarwickHOST
the, uh, deputy research director of the Australia Institute, um, which conducted this study, uh, Jack Thrower, put it this way.
Elisa BarwickHOST
He said, "This polling shows that voters overwhelmingly back bold government interventions directing, directly regulating rents and spending more to actually build public housing." And just a quick note on that matter, public housing, um- I've been reviewing, because the, uh, parliament's running an inquiry into social housing, and so I've been reviewing some of the submissions that are on the website.
Elisa BarwickHOST
Uh, and what is quite a stark reality is that only 4% of Australian households are in social housing, and that's dramatically low compared to a lot of similar-
Elisa BarwickHOST
This includes over seventy percent of those who own their home or have a mortgage.
Elisa BarwickHOST
Australia Institute Deputy Research Director Jack Thrower said, "This polling shows that voters overwhelmingly back bold government interventions, directly regulating rents and spending more to actually build more public housing." An article the same day on ABC News on why Australians are so, quote, "obsessed with property", admitted that part of the problem is that Australia's retail banking sector is an established oligopoly, as the competition regulator says.
Elisa BarwickHOST
Further, RBA rate moves have a bigger impact on Aussies because we don't have fixed interest thirty-year mortgages like most similar countries.
Elisa BarwickHOST
The longest term fixed loan, which is rare, is ten years, and they tend to have higher rates to compensate for bank risk.
Graeme GoodingsHOST
Well, there's been overwhelming public support for government action on Australia's rental crisis.
Graeme GoodingsHOST
The Australia Institute has commissioned a poll and Deputy Research Director Jack Thrower joins us now.
Graeme GoodingsHOST
Jack, thanks for your time today.
Jack ThrowerGUEST
Thanks for having
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Jack ThrowerGUEST
An important thing to note is that given that these sorts of regulations are generally at the state or territory level, it's very much open for the federal government to push this forward because they have all sorts of tools to encourage the states to do things, but also any state government that is bold enough to try to assist renters in these ways is able to.
Jack ThrowerGUEST
There's a lot of governments that could listen to this poll, and I'm not sure who will, but hopefully we continue to see reforms in the interests of renters.
Graeme GoodingsHOST
Jack Thrower, good to chat.
Graeme GoodingsHOST
Left-wing Think Tank's Deputy Research Director, the Australia Institute.
Keran ThomasCORRESPONDENT
A new poll commissioned by the Australia Institute shows the majority of voters want the government to do more to help renters.
Keran ThomasCORRESPONDENT
The institute's Deputy Research Director, Jack Thrower, says there are a number of key findings from the polling.
Jack ThrowerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We found that, uh, three in five voters think the government should be doing more to help renters, um, including, uh, three in ten who think they should be doing much more.
Jack ThrowerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, we found four in five voters support some form of regulation, uh, and within that, uh, a little more than half of voters believe rents should only, uh, be allowed to rise by inflation or less, and about a quarter, uh, support a temporary rent freeze.
Leo Patterson RossSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, there is more investors now than there ever has been, and it continues to grow.
Leo Patterson RossSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think there is a, uh, m- a, a disconnect between what industry claims will happen or asserts will happen and what actually happens, and I think government needs to, uh, take, uh, what reality shows us will happen a bit more seriously.
Keran ThomasCORRESPONDENT
Jack Thrower from the Australia Institute says rental caps are in place in the ACT and appear to be working well.
Jack ThrowerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Rents, uh, since, uh, halfway through twenty twenty-two across the country have, uh, risen, uh, twenty-three percent, uh, in price, uh, whereas in the ACT, well, here in Canberra, it's only risen, uh, by six percent.