State homes under review as government eyes mass sale

So, you can actually imagine now that figure is far higher- and our view is that we as public works and certainly as government shouldn’t have the situation where we have all of these residential houses across the country- when in fact those officials are already getting housing allowances, as part of their benefits.

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has ordered an investigation into more than 6,000 government-owned residential properties and wants a strategy to sell or repurpose those that are no longer required for official duties.

The government is reviewing whether thousands of state-owned homes occupied by public officials continue to serve the public interest.