Thanks for following the Need to Know blog this Monday, August 25. We’ll be back tomorrow with more breaking news.
Here’s what made headlines today:
- Government-backed 5pc deposits for first-home buyers brought forward | All first-home buyers will be able to get on the property ladder with a lower deposit sooner, as a federal scheme kicks in earlier.
- Ley asks PM why Labor needed a ‘talkfest to realise Coalition policies work’ | Opposition Leader Sussan Ley criticised the government in question time for not having any policies of its own on housing, after it moved to pause reforms to the National Construction Code and accelerate the 5pc deposit scheme for first-home buyers.
- Erin Patterson’s fate to be determined on September 8 | The convicted triple murderer faces the possibility of life without parole, as the prosecution requested, or life with the possibility of one day walking free.
- LNP denying science on climate change: PM | Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says that if the Coalition drops its commitments to net zero, they are effectively denying climate change.
- Chalmers broke budget rules for election spending | Treasurer Jim Chalmers broke his own watered-down budget rules for Labor’s election spending, analysis shows, despite insisting the Albanese government has fiscal guardrails to impose discipline.
