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@drchrismartin.bsky.social

Housing academic, UNSW Sydney. Tenancy law. Private rental. Social housing. Landlords. Modern money. Governmental criminology.

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NSW’s ‘renovictions’ loophole could undermine the progress made with no-grounds evictions The NSW government was broadly lauded when it scrapped no-grounds evictions but a recent change could make things tougher for tenants.

The Minns Govt is undermining its own tenancy reforms - with a ‘renoviction’ loophole big enough to drive a ute through theconversation.com/nsws-renovic...

17.08.2025 22:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We can’t just build our way out of Australia’s housing problems • Andi Nygaard A narrow focus on supply is certain to disappoint

This. Super clear, worthwhile read. insidestory.org.au/we-cant-just...

17.08.2025 07:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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CLOSING 5PM TODAY | Last chance for students to apply for our pioneering Global Student Fellowship program, which offers paid opportunities to work with international development and human rights organisations around the world. Learn more and apply: www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/students/glo...

21.07.2025 22:26 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Next week, I will talk with Chris Sidoti, Commissioner of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, about Israel's starvation of Gaza's people and the relentless massacres of starving people at the so-called 'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation' sites.

20.06.2025 06:12 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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It has been over 9 weeks of siege on #Gaza, with the State of Israel banning the entry of all humanitarian aid, medical, and commercial supplies.

UNRWA has thousands of trucks ready to enter and our teams in Gaza are ready to scale up the delivery.

The siege must be lifted.

11.05.2025 06:00 — 👍 234    🔁 180    💬 3    📌 11
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Inside a squalid house linked to a suspected NDIS fraudster People with mental illness are getting lost in the NDIS system, isolated from friends and family and abandoned while their lucrative government funding is drained. This is how they're living.

read this and weep, about what is happening to disabled people, exploited by profiteers and neglected by those meant to be safeguarding them

I wonder if any questions will be asked about this during the election campaign

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

05.04.2025 23:00 — 👍 37    🔁 24    💬 5    📌 0
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Minns Labor Government delivers on rental reform by ending no grounds evictions on 19 May 2025 More than 2.3 million renters in NSW will be better off thanks to the latest round of changes to rental laws which will help create a fairer rental market, including ending ‘no-grounds’ evictions and ...

Good news: no-grounds evictions to end in NSW from 19 May. Five jurisdictions have reformed tenancy laws to improve renters’ security in the past 5 years - a big shift that’s been long pushed by tenant advocates www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...

24.03.2025 23:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Open Letter on Academic Freedom We, the undersigned, write to express our condemnation of the decision by the Education Minister Jason Clare to request the Australian Research Council (ARC) to investigate the Future Fellowship of M...

Open letter in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and condemning the latest attempt to silence her — please sign & share docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

08.02.2025 04:37 — 👍 14    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1
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Heat Survey 2025 Share your experience of trying to stay cool in your home over the summer.

ACOSS is surveying Australians to understand the impacts of heat on people experiencing financial stress.

If that's you, please help them out by completing this survey before the 20th of Jan. 👇

13.01.2025 02:00 — 👍 32    🔁 37    💬 4    📌 2
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On the booth at Caringbah. A lovely day to vote #yes23 #dharawal

14.10.2023 02:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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