Housing is one of the biggest issues facing Australians right now, and politicians say they’re listening. Both major parties jostled over who has a better plan to help people buy their own homes during the last election.
Yet fewer and fewer Australians own their own home. Solutions offered by the parties have focused on figuring out ways to help people pour more money into the housing market rather than addressing what’s making housing more expensive.
It’s hard not to notice that Parliament looks very different to the electorate when it comes to home ownership. In 2021, two-thirds of households were inhabited by their home owners. Compare that to the members of Anthony Albanese’s cabinet, who own 61 properties between them according to the last Parliament’s register of interests — an average of 2.9 properties each.
Crikey is going to keep a rolling list of members of the 47th Parliament who own two or more properties with their partner. Information in this list is gleaned from the register of members’ interests (with only a few MPs having submitted their declarations so far), and updated as declarations come in.
Crikey’s Landlord List as of August 4 2022
- LNP MP for McPherson Karen Andrews: 7 properties (one residential, six investment)
- Labor MP for Gorton Brendan O’Connor: 6 properties (one residential, one investment, one holiday house, three farms including one used as a veterinary clinic)
- Liberal MP for Barker Tony Pasin: 4 properties (two residential, one farmland, one investment).
- Nationals MP for Gippsland Darren Chester: 4 properties (two residential including part-owned, two investment).
- Nationals MP for Parkes Mark Coulton: 3 properties (two residential, one investment)
- Liberal MP for Bradfield Paul Fletcher: 3 properties (one residential, two investment including one in Lettomanoppello, Italy)
- Labor MP for Werriwa Anne Stanley: 2 properties (one residential, one investment)
- Labor MP for Pearce Tracey Roberts: 2 properties (one residential, one investment)
- Liberal MP for Bass Bridget Archer: 2 properties (one residential, one investment)
