August 19, 2026 — 12:01am

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Renters would be offered at least two-year tenancy deals and billions of taxpayers’ dollars spent on new public housing under a plan from the ACTU as it pushes for the Albanese government to build on its negative gearing and capital gains tax reforms.

As new figures suggest tentative signs of a slowdown in runaway rents, particularly in regional parts of the country, the union movement believes the nation’s millions of tenants need greater protection from “rent-gouging professional landlords”.

The ACTU backed the…

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