HOUSING IN NSW – WE’RE LIKE FROGS IN SLOWLY BOILING WATER
Let it be said: Our Federal/State Governments and those in Local Councils must wake up and step up to protect the basic human right to...
STOP - FIRE! AND HERE’S NSW PLANNING COMING TO THE AID OF STATE MPs
In September 2019, in response to a call for Submissions to NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment’s (DPIE) proposal to do...
WHAT’S NSW PLANNING HIDING… And DARYL’S OUTBACK AIRBNB SHACKS, GLADYS & ICAC
In case you missed it, the SMH is running the story: The outback Airbnb shack, the dirt highway and Daryl Maguire’s meeting with...
ABC HIGHLIGHTING RENTAL CRISIS – MISSES ONE OUTSTANDING FACTOR
“In 2014, there were an estimated 216,000 STHL premises in NSW/ACT.” So said a 2017 NSW Department of Planning ‘Options Paper’. And...
REF: WHO IS STATE PARLIAMENT CENSORING AND WHY?
It is now 17 months since the NSW Departments of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPE) and Customer Service sought feedback on draft...
AIRBNB / SHORT-TERM RENTAL OPERATORS CONTINUE TO FUNCTION ‘TRUE TO FORM’
Airbnb and subsidiary HotelTonight are reported to have cancelled all bookings in the Washington DC metro area during President-elect Joe...
AIRBNB – EVERY NEIGHBOUR & POLICE OFFICERS’ WORST NIGHTMARE
Victoria Police report: “Four women charged following a serious assault of sergeant and constable in Glen Iris.” The female sergeant...
NSW AIRBNB OPERATOR WITH 164 LISTINGS “RUNNING AT 90% OCCUPANCY”
Yes we have a pandemic, yet irrespective of this, “rental vacancy rates hit zero in Australian coastal towns as they hit COVID...
WHICH MINISTER / DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE COVID COMPLIANCE?
An unidentified member of ASTRA – Australian Short Term Rental Association - wrote to members in a Facebook post a propos commercial...
ILLEGAL SHORT-TERM RENTALS - WHO’S CALLING THE SHOTS?
John Gudgeon, President of Holiday Letting Organisation Byron Bay (HLO), sat before a Parliamentary Inquiry in March 2016 and, under...
