Queensland bid to limit rental hikes to once a year ‘will not stop price gouging’

Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (centre right) at a housing roundtable meeting at Parliament House in Brisbane on Tuesday. The government announced it will limit rent increases to once a year. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

A Queensland government proposal to limit rent increases to once a year does not go far enough to address the serious housing stress on the state, tenants and social organisations say.

Landlords will only be able to increase rents once a year, rather than every six months, under reforms introduced to the state parliament on Tuesday.