Property data organisation Cotality, tallies Australian property price rises averaging 7.5 per cent nationwide, and 13.1 per cent in Perth, over the year to November 2025. Source: https://www.cotality.com/au/insights/articles/housing-growth-eases-as-affordability-and-rates-loom-large
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that Australia must stabilise its population to ease the pressure on housing costs, effective through reducing Net Overseas Immigration (NOM) to 70,000 per annum.
Mr Peter Strachan, National President, Sustainable Population Australia
"At a breakneck pace of demand expansion, Perth houses double in price every five years and three months, while nationally, prices are doubling every nine years and three months."
"Australia has never had as many housing units. Cost increases are a direct result of demand, well beyond the economy's capacity to supply."
"Australia's population expands by an extraordinary one million people every 16 months, fuelled by aggressive Federal immigration policies over the past two decades."
Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national-state-and-territory-population/mar-2025
"The situation is about to become worse as around 50,000 babies born in the years after Peter Costello's $5,000 baby bonus reach the age where they will be looking to find independent accommodation."
Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/births-australia/2024
Mr Michael Bayliss, Spokesperson and Communications Manager, Sustainable Population Australia
"In 2023, research from Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) concluded that the housing crisis is a population growth crisis. An accumulation of ill-advised policy measures, such as negative gearing, have combined with accelerated population growth to create a perfect housing storm."
"The housing crisis is a catastrophe of the federal government's own making. Had it listened to SPA's concerns, Australians could now be working together to repair the damage. Instead, government experts keep insisting that demand-side problems are solved by supply-side solutions. These so called 'solutions' are a case of fighting fire with fire."
"Australia must stabilise its population to ease the pressure on housing availability, protect the environment and agricultural land from encroachment by housing estates and ensure that there are schools, hospitals and other social infrastructure for every one of its citizens."
Video responses from Peter and Michael may be watched below:
