Senate debates

Tuesday, 2 September 2025

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Australian Bureau of Statistics; Order for the Production of Documents

4:41 pm

Photo of Fatima PaymanFatima Payman (WA, Australia's Voice) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than 5 pm on Friday, 19 September 2025, a summary, presented in the same format as the 'Household Income and Wealth, Australia' and 'Housing Occupancy and Costs' reports published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), of the data found in the 2023-24 Survey of Income and Housing, including but not limited to, data on:

(a) the Gini coefficient for gross household income;

(b) the mean weekly gross household income;

(c) the median weekly gross household income;

(d) the Gini coefficient for household net worth;

(e) the mean household net worth;

(f) the percentage of people, expressed both nationally and by state or territory, who:

(i) own their home with a mortgage,

(ii) own their home without a mortgage,

(iii) rent from a private landlord, and

(iv) rent from a state or territory housing authority;

(g) the weekly housing costs, as a percentage of income, for each of the groups mentioned in paragraph (f), expressed both nationally and by state or territory;

(h) the weekly housing costs, as a raw figure, for each of the groups mentioned in paragraph (f), expressed both nationally and by state or territory;

(i) both the median and mean mortgage outstanding, expressed both nationally and by state or territory;

(j) the number of people who own a home other than their usual residence and the total number of homes owned by these people, expressed both nationally and by state or territory;

(k) housing utilisation, including the number of persons per household and the number of bedrooms per dwelling;

(l) recent home buyers (defined by the ABS as having bought a home within the past 3 years), including the percentage of these recent home buyers who were first home buyers and the percentage who were changeover buyers; and

(m) a comparison of the difference in the figures for each of the above matters between 2019-20 and 2023-24 and between 2013-14 and 2023-24.

Question agreed to.

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