Independent Senate candidate Nick Xenophon has called for a royal commission, Australia’s highest form of public inquiry, into housing affordability, saying the issue has become a “real barbecue stopper.”
Xenophon, who is seeking a return to federal politics by picking up a Senate seat in South Australia, said such an inquiry was the “last best hope” to tackle the increasing unattainability of home ownership.
“The issue of housing affordability, the difficulty young people have in buying their first home without getting significant assistance from the ‘bank of mum and dad’ has become a real barbecue stopper,” he said on Tuesday.
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