Housing supply in Australia will be a key battleground in the election campaign. With home ownership more and more out of reach for young and not so young Australians, red tape and low productivity ...

says Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood. Half as many houses are being built per hour worked today compared with 30 years ago and building times have blown out since 2015 because of ...

Falling productivity and inefficiencies in residential construction have seen the supply of new homes fall far below the ...

CANBERRA -- The rate at which Australia is building homes has fallen by half over the last 30 years, a government report has found.

In this podcast we talk to commission chair Danielle Wood about the housing challenge, as well as Australia’s parlous productivity performance generally and her drive to get some fresh ideas on ...