Everyone deserves a safe, secure, and affordable place to call home.

But across Curtin and Australia, too many people are struggling—young professionals who can’t imagine owning a home, families facing rising rents, and older Australians worried about housing stability. Housing should be treated as a human need, not just an investment product.

MY PRIORITIES

To make housing more accessible and affordable, I’m focused on:

Building more social and affordable housing – including support for the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund.
Backing Build to Rent legislation – to increase supply and provide long-term stability for renters.
Reviewing negative gearing and capital gains tax – to level the playing field for first-home buyers.
Prioritising skilled migrants in construction trades – to help build homes faster.
Encouraging downsizing and taxing vacant dwellings – to make better use of existing housing stock.

Delivered

As your Curtin Independent MP, I’m proud to have helped deliver results for our community.

Supported the Help to Buy scheme
Backed Build to Rent legislation
Called for prioritising construction trades in immigration policy
Held a Good Infill forum to promote medium-density housing that’s liveable, green, and walkable

Planning is largely a state and local issue, but the message from our forums is clear: Australians want governments to work together to solve the housing crisis.

I’ve hosted two Curtin Community Housing Forums with 180 constituents, bringing together renters, homeowners, and mortgage holders to identify the most urgent issues and practical solutions. These forums revealed strong support for:

More social and affordable housing
Incentives for Build to Rent developments
Replacing stamp duty with land tax
Streamlining planning approvals
Strengthening renters’ rights

I’ve shared these community-driven ideas with the Federal Minister for Housing and continue to advocate for coordinated action across all levels of government.

Watch & Read

Speeches in Parliament

In detail

The Government has taken some steps towards addressing housing challenges, but not enough.

I regularly hear from young constituents with good jobs who struggle to see how they will ever become homeowners. People of all ages are struggling to afford payments on their modest rental. We need to treat housing as a home and not an investment product.

House prices have increased from 3-4 times average incomes to 7-8 times since 2000. This has been driven by policy settings from both sides of politics over the last 20 years- rising property prices are politically popular, but exacerbate inequality.

Increasing housing supply is essential and more needs to be done to achieve it.

In response to the scale of this crisis and the number of people affected, we held two Community Housing Forums attended by 180 constituents.

We brought together a mix of renters, homeowners and mortgage holders from across the Curtin community. Together we identified the top three issues and top three goals for housing in Curtin. At our second forum a panel of experts evaluated these community policy ideas and other policy suggestions as well.

These forums showed support for a broad range of solutions that the Federal Government could implement, including building more social housing, incentivising build to rent, taxing vacant dwellings, reviewing tax incentives for property investors, prioritising key trades in immigration to help build houses faster and encouraging down-sizing.

At a State level, our forums suggested the WA Government should work with the Federal Government to unlock funding for social and affordable housing, replace stamp duty with land tax, streamline approval processes and strengthen renters’ rights.

None of these individually will solve the current housing predicament, but all will contribute to making it more achievable to own or rent an affordable home.

I have discussed the solutions proposed with the new Federal Minister for Housing and shared our summary report with her.

I also held a Good Infill forum to discuss the role of medium density housing in addressing the housing shortage, and discuss how infill can be done well, to create liveable, walkable communities featuring urban greening and tree canopy. While planning is a state and local issue, a clear theme came out of our various forums – people want different branches of government to work better together in the long term interests of all.