{"id":491530,"date":"2026-02-20T03:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491530\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:19:10","slug":"without-tradies-australia-cannot-build-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491530\/","title":{"rendered":"Without tradies, Australia cannot build for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Build Skills Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buildskills.com.au\/news\/housing-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent report<\/a> claimed that there aren\u2019t enough tradespeople to meet Labor\u2019s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years, which is currently tracking 27% below target.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771557550_799_Albos-housing-target.png\" width=\"580\" height=\"409\" alt=\"Albo's housing targer\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to Build Skills Australia, Australia\u2019s housing construction rate per new resident has plummeted, even though the number of homes built over the last 20 years (174,000 dwellings annually) is significantly higher than in the previous 20 years (145,400 dwellings annually).<\/p>\n<p>This is because Australia\u2019s population has grown at a record pace thanks to net overseas migration.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Australian-population-change.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Australian population change\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Build Skills Australia\u2019s recent report claimed that there aren\u2019t enough tradespeople to meet Labor\u2019s target of building 1.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-491530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}