AIRBNB: “IT’S VERY CLEAR…THAT THE INDUSTRY HAS COMPLETELY CAPTURED THE GOVERNMENT”
An article in this week’s SMH raised serious concerns about Airbnb in NSW. John McInerney, Millers Point Community Residents Action...
“WHAT’S IN A NAME”
As Shakespeare wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". What though if one were to substitute‘a rose’ with a good old...
WHAT PRICE PROTECTION FROM AIRBNB?
After some four years of Submissions to the NSW Parliament, residents and corporations have until this Wednesday to respond to a...
NSW GOVERNMENT / ASIC / AIRBNB / STAYZ / QANTAS – GOOD-BYE HOMES
On this day last year the NSW Parliament debated changes to legislation, which would permit across the State short-term (as short as an...
NSW GOVERNMENT JOINS WITH AIRBNB TO “BEAT” ANY OPPOSITION
Airbnb recently sold common stock at a US$35 billion valuation. On 05 June 2019, Airbnb visited NSW Minister for Tourism Stuart Ayres in...
UNIONS AND GOVERNMENT CONNECTIONS WITH SHORT-TERM RENTAL AGENTS
The Tasmanian Tenants Union, and the University of Tasmania, know too well the contribution Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms...
SECRET NSW GOVERNMENT HOLIDAY HOMES
A Gold Coast ‘party house’ is “ruining short-stay’s name”, claims the Australian Short-Term Rental Accommodation Association (ASTRA). ...
AIRBNB and STAYZ – SCALING THE HEIGHTS and HITTING THE SKIDS
The NSW Shire of Tweed is located within shouting distance of and suffers the overflow from the Gold Coast’s Airbnb contagion. The Tweed...
AIRBNB and STAYZ WASTE NO TIME – NEW ROUND OF MINISTERIAL MEETINGS
Our new State Ministry was recently sworn in. Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation Kevin Anderson had both Stayz and Airbnb in...
ICAC – JAMIE PARKER MP, WILL YOU?
In 2015 Greens MP Jamie Parker called for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the adequacy of legislation covering the short-term rental of...
