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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

State government ‘disappointed’ as Queensland real estate peak body urges skirting of new eviction laws

houses and apartments in Brisbane
Reforms eliminating no-grounds evictions are set to apply later this year but Queensland’s real estate peak body is encouraging measures to permit landlords to evict renters. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Queensland’s housing department says “best practice” advice given by the state’s peak real estate body that would see every renter issued with notice to leave at the start of their lease is “disappointing” and “not in the spirit” of rent reforms.

But the tenants’ union is calling for the state government to go further, urging them to restrict the issuing of “Form 12s” and make it harder for renters to be removed without reason.

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