Tarric Brooker

As the realities of the new world unfolding before our eyes continue to become apparent, challenges thought largely solved have once again been brought back to the forefront.

In recent times, One Nation and its leader Pauline Hanson have gained an incredible amount of ground in the polls, rising to often top the polls on primary vote.

Over the years, weekend property auction results have become a key barometer the media uses to illustrate the housing market’s strength at a given moment.

In the long history of Australia’s housing prices, intervention to support housing prices from the government or the Reserve Bank has never been far away from the market when prices were falling significantly.

Amid an already challenging environment for the nation’s housing market, the latest figures from Cotality suggest prospective sellers face ever greater competition to sell, even as fewer owners put their properties on the market.

Last week, in an interview with News 24, Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Tony Burke refused to concede the Albanese government had made a mistake by allowing net overseas migration to surge following the reopening of Australia’s international borders.

Amidst an already challenging set of circumstances for the nation’s residential construction sector, the latest Housing Industry Association (HIA) home sales figures have provided another unwelcome reality check for the Albanese government’s “aspiration” to build 1.2 million new homes over its 5 year ‘Housing Accord’ period.

In the normally quiet city of Limoges in central France, the entire Western world is being given a lesson as the historic 143-year-old town hall, which survived two world wars, is destroyed by fire amid the ongoing riots and civil strife gripping towns and cities across France.