Australia news Australia news live: Liberal MP proposes using super to secure mortgages; BBC deletes crocodile post showing wrong river Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast LIVE Updated 4m ago Nick Visser Tue 22 Sep 2026 03.34 BSTFirst published on Mon 21 Sep 2026 21.50 BST Share Key events 1h ago Police investigating after alleged Nazi salute in Sydney’s inner west 2h ago Ingredient used in cold and flu supplements to be removed over allergy link 3h ago Bragg to float letting homebuyers use super as collateral for mortgages 4h ago NSW to pilot ‘ground rules’ hearings in sexual assault trials 4h ago Greens call for triple zero network to be brought back under independent control 5h ago ‘Monetised misogyny’ online is contributing to domestic violence, Chalmers says 5h ago Albanese signs declaration with world leaders urging human control over AI 5h ago Albanese meets with EU leaders ahead of UN general assembly 6h ago We're doing everything we can to curb domestic violence, Chalmers says 6h ago Chalmers says migration needed for falling birth rate 6h ago City of Sydney council bans smartglasses in community facilities 6h ago Welcome The shadow minister for housing, Andrew Bragg, says ‘we want to have a country where more people are retired homeowners’.
Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP From 3h ago Andrew Bragg, the shadow minister for housing, will float a new proposal for homebuyers to use their superannuation as collateral for mortgages.
Bragg will detail the idea during a speech today.
He told ABC NewsRadio this morning: The general idea here is we want to have a country where more people are retired homeowners, and one of the most worrying trends we have is the growth in retired renters.
Now, there’s nothing wrong with renting of course, but for a lot of people, they would rather live in their own house in retirement.
And so we want to make sure that we’re properly calibrating all the options people might like to have in their working life to use their own savings to promote home ownership.
When asked if it would be risky for people to take out loans larger than they could service, Bragg said the risk right now is the current trajectory for older renters.
Today’s address is about setting out the rationale for having a more sophisticated debate. … We are becoming a country which is going to have a lot more retired renters, but also people potentially with quite high superannuation balances.
That doesn’t seem to be the best outcome for all people, which is why we’re having this debate, because we want to be a nation of homeowners.
Andrew Bragg.
Key events 1h ago Police investigating after alleged Nazi salute in Sydney’s inner west 2h ago Ingredient used in cold and flu supplements to be removed over allergy link 3h ago Bragg to float letting homebuyers use super as collateral for mortgages 4h ago NSW to pilot ‘ground rules’ hearings in sexual assault trials 4h ago Greens call for triple zero network to be brought back under independent control 5h ago ‘Monetised misogyny’ online is contributing to domestic violence, Chalmers says 5h ago Albanese signs declaration with world leaders urging human control over AI 5h ago Albanese meets with EU leaders ahead of UN general assembly 6h ago We're doing everything we can to curb domestic violence, Chalmers says 6h ago Chalmers says migration needed for falling birth rate 6h ago City of Sydney council bans smartglasses in community facilities 6h ago Welcome Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid Sunshine and wind met 80.4% of demand on Australia’s main power grid on Saturday, setting a new high bar for renewable electricity.
Solar panels on rooftops provided more than half of the power used in the national electricity market, the grid that supplies the eastern states, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, for 30 minutes around lunchtime.
This was complemented by solar and windfarms, and a small amount of hydro (1%).
Fossil fuels, coal and gas, contributed 20%.
The energy minister, Chris Bowen, said the milestone meant there was “more clean, cheap, sovereign energy powering our homes and businesses than ever before”.
