Overview
- A new Painted Dog survey of 761 people, commissioned by the Make Renting Fair Alliance, found 80% support for stopping evictions that do not require a stated reason.
- Western Australia, alongside the Northern Territory, remains the only place in the country that still lets landlords end leases without giving a reason.
- Premier Roger Cook said the state has made significant tenancy reforms and is examining further changes, though he has not committed to abolishing no-grounds terminations.
- Real-estate groups warn a ban would drive investors away and cut rentals, a claim advocates dispute by pointing to other states and to existing for-cause eviction powers.
- Campaigners cite severe harm from such evictions, highlighting deaths in individual cases and alleging up to 1,300 public-housing families were removed without stated reason over eight years, with full government data not released.