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Alan Morris, Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney

NSW’s ‘renovictions’ loophole could undermine the progress made with no-grounds evictions

There was much cause for celebration when no-grounds evictions were abolished in New South Wales on May 19.

Keeping a pre-election promise, the NSW government amended the state’s Residential Tenancies Act to end no-grounds evictions and add new reasonable grounds for termination instead.

In doing so, NSW joined the ACT and South Australia, which had recently abolished no-grounds evictions. Since then Victoria has also legislated to end no-grounds evictions.

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