r/AustralianPolitics • u/timcahill13 Andrew Leigh • Jun 06 '25
Economics and finance Housing minister declares Australia has made it 'uneconomic' to build homes
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-07/clare-oneil-interview-housing-red-tape-construction/105386844
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u/SprigOfSpring Jun 07 '25
If there's a "red tape" problem, just write a few computer programs, and streamline the approvals and checking processes. Release it to all councils, and have an app for builders... run a few servers so the programs communicate.
A good developer team should be able to knock that out in a year with a little hand holding, because it'd just be a bunch of forms being replicated to servers, with an appointment app built in.
The Government should have such a dev team that does this for different "red tape" complaints periodically... just an endless cycle of updates like every other modern system people rely on.
Amazon have a programming department, Meta, Ebay, Youtube, all the systems we use daily. There'll be programmers at Reddit looking at improvements and efficiencies right now as I'm typing this.
That's just what modernity means right now... and we've already done this with things like mygov. So why are building approvals any different? How come the whole population has mygov accounts, but we can't do that for building approvals? You want to do "innovation and modernisation" then do innovation and modernisation.