Cameron Kusher

I’ve spent 25 years researching and commenting on the Australian residential property market, working with some of the sector’s biggest names. Now, I’m offering my expertise directly to businesses and individuals through Kusher Consulting. 1/

JFC if we are going to continue to bail out private business can the taxpayer at least take some equity in them. minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowen/media-re…

@rollablazer @kayosports I am on Apple TV so it figures

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Update to @kayosports and of course it is now not working at all. Just an absolutely rubbish overpriced product.

Referees deadset never penalise Stephen Crichton for anything. They give a six again for everything but not for that holding down in the tackle?

@plebcapital Mexican is pretty bad on the East Coast no chance on the West Coast

No. $GYG

@Bugs @AndrewM4000 As the population gets larger a similar rate of population growth means a lot more people than it did previously

@AndrewM4000 @cmkusher Very normal levels of growth

We've added a little more than the entire population of South Australia to the country over the past five years. Is that wise given how our housing and infrastructure delivery is going?

Annual net interstate migration to Victoria over the year to September 2025 was positive (+441) for the first time since before the pandemic. Interestingly though, annual interstate arrivals (72,931) were the lowest they've been since March 2023, it was just that annual departures (72,490) were the lowest they've been since September 2016. I would have thought people might be moving to Victoria because buying and renting a house is cheaper its simply a case that fewer people are moving away from Victoria.

Even more evidence that we aren't building enough homes. With the latest update of the population estimates from the ABS today there is yet more evidence that we aren't building enough new housing, especially as it relates to catering to our population growth. Note that the chart I have provided is only based on the estimated resident population and doesn't include temporary residents, many of whom also need housing while they are here. Over the 12 months to September 2025, Australia has completed one new dwelling for every 2.4 new residents. Over the long-term we've built an average of one new dwelling for every 1.8 new residents. While the building rate has improved as population growth has slowed, this data shows that as a nation we continue to underbuild. Is it worth having such a high rate of population growth when we can't build enough new housing for it? All that growth does is push up housing costs (to buy and to rent). I'd argue we also aren't building enough new roads, new schools, new hospitals, new public transport and more broadly enough new infrastructure to cater to this population growth either.

Even with the pandemic, in the five years to September 2025, Australia's population has increased by 2,091,403 persons. I can't say that I believe we're building sufficient homes, roads, schools, hospital, public transport infrastructure etc to cater to that magnitude of population increase.

That slowdown in the rate of population growth that has been happening, it hasn't continued.

I am beginning to think that Trump maybe didn't completely think through the attack on Iran.

Population Concentration of Australia More maps: brilliantmaps.com/population-con…

I don’t understand the strong opposition to selling off defence land (although I think a long-term lease could be better). A lot of it is in very good locations which could be much better utilised for housing for example. Some say it has heritage value which may be true, but as it sits today no one can access that heritage. The heritage value can be maintained and actually utilised for the public good whereas it can’t be if it’s locked-up owned by Defence.

@PhilipThalis Why should it not be sold off? It’s not utilised, prime land which is worth a fortune and can be utilised as housing, anything with heritage value can still be maintained and now actually be made accessible to the public.

Strongly agree that most prized Dept of Defence lands should never be sold off - Victoria Barracks, Spectacle Is, Middle Head. But other sites more suitable, like 48ha Bundock St site in Randwick. Our master plan in 2000 only partly realised - enviro park & ephemeral wetlands 1.

If garbage trucks are an issue (and it sounds like it isn't really a big issue) for new housing estates why not have one shared garbage facility for a street (or a section of the street) where the garbage truck can easily get access? afr.com/property/resid…

This would actually be way better than what we have IMO

At the risk of being labelled a NIMBY I legitimately don’t understand why anywhere away from the city centre and surrounds (which should be much more dense) needs to have that sort of height unless it is a legitimate new CBD (like Parramatta in Sydney). 6-8 storeys is surely tall enough as you move further away from the centre of the city (not just Melbourne but any city). Some of these heights, should they get built are going to stick out like a sore thumb. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-1…

You think your grocery bills are expensive now, wait and see how high they get if we can’t resolve things in the Middle East and diesel prices don’t come down.

Exciting to see we are back to core and non-core promises. No changes to CGT and NG were clearly non-core promises. Labor are reaching out across the aisle to embrace Coalition policies.