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Improving Australia's productivity has been a big focus in recent times. Now an advocacy group has examined the productivity of the nation's politicians. And it's found there's almost as much time on political theatre as debating policy.

Federal politicians spend one third of their time in the House of Representatives and Senate engaging in political theatre, including partisan attacks and party promotion, analysis shows.

Ben Schrever and Raphaelle Maffei moved into their new, architect-designed, high-quality family home just months after starting to build. The couple in Melbourne’s inner north, who have two daughters aged five and eight, chose a prefabricated build after seeing another home nearby arrive on site in one piece.

Paul Bassat, one of the nation’s leading venture capitalists, says division in America is at its highest level since the civil war in the 1860s and should be a warning for Australia to better address intergenerational inequality and political disenfranchisement.

The WA Government is failing to convince people it is tackling the housing crisis, despite tracking third in the country towards its target for building new homes.

Public confidence in Victoria’s housing system has slumped to the lowest levels in the country.

A survey of how we feel about promises to fix the housing crisis has revealed that even where governments are delivering, public confidence is at rock bottom.

One in 10 Queenslanders fear they could lose their home within a year, as the state risks falling dangerously behind on the housing it needs before the 2032 Games.

Queenslanders are among the most pessimistic people in the country when asked about our ability to overcome the housing crisis.