11/06/2026
Finally an article that is 100% accurate: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18hqE2Muah/
RBA officials have reportedly dropped the truth bomb Labor never wanted said out loud, warning that the government’s housing policies did little to fix supply and may have helped pump prices higher by throwing more buyers into a market that already does not have enough homes.
The reported internal notes cut straight through the political theatre around Help to Buy, five per cent deposits and first home buyer subsidies, saying these schemes are demand-side measures that pull purchases forward and translate into higher prices, which is exactly what happens when government gives people more borrowing power while approvals, construction and land release are still strangled by red tape.
This is not complicated. You cannot import hundreds of thousands of people, fail to build enough homes, bury builders in planning delays, choke supply with restrictive zoning, then pretend another taxpayer-backed subsidy will magically make housing cheaper. That is not housing policy. That is a government-sponsored bidding war.
The latest ABS figures show total dwelling approvals fell to 16,710 in April, well short of the 20,000 homes a month needed to hit the National Housing Accord’s 1.2 million target, while net overseas migration was still 306,000 in 2024-25 after a record post-COVID surge. The RBA’s own modelling has previously stated that higher population growth reduces rental vacancies and boosts rents and house prices, meaning the central problem was obvious before Labor tried to bury it under another subsidy.
Free up supply. Cut planning delays. Slash restrictive zoning. Protect property rights. Stop pretending demand subsidies fix affordability. Bring immigration back to levels our housing, roads, hospitals and infrastructure can actually absorb.
Labor did not solve the housing crisis. They poured fuel on it, called it compassion, then acted shocked when young Australians were priced out of their own country.
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