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AHURI is currently re-evaluating our public conference and events program in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The health and safety of attendees at AHURI events is our number one priority.

The recent extended bushfire season across Australia has affected people living in rural and remote areas in many different ways: from having to evacuate from their home, to missing work when fire closes down local businesses, to the disaster of having their home and possessions destroyed by fire, to the health risks of living with bushfire smoke for long periods of time.

The recent Western Australian Government report ‘Levelling the playing field' (2019) into the impact of short-term rentals (STR) such as AirBnB in Western Australia shows the conflicted nature such housing ‘sharing’ strategies bring to the local community.

The Australian bushfires of spring and summer 2019–20 have had a terrible cost in lives lost and homes destroyed. The scale of the burning is estimated at the end of January 2020 as around 5.3 million hectares in NSW (and ACT); 2.5 million hectares in Queensland; 2.1 million hectares in Western Australia; 1.5 million hectares in Victoria; 485,000 hectares in South Australia; and 36,000 hectares in Tasmania.

In one of the first national studies to examine the relationship between housing and mental health pathways, researchers have found that mental health issues can negatively impact a person’s financial situation, and therefore their housing situation.