Queensland policy of paying developers’ fees already failed in New Zealand, expert says

New minister’s ‘pro housing’ direction wins praise but council taxes policy deemed ‘probably not particularly effective’

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The Queensland government’s new policy of paying council taxes for developers is “probably not a particularly effective policy” and has already failed in New Zealand, an expert says.

But the overall “pro-housing” policy direction of new housing minister, Meaghan Scanlon, has won praise from some.

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