{"id":446055,"date":"2026-06-05T11:23:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=446055"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:24:00","slug":"housing-minister-clare-oneil-faces-criticism-over-375000-property-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=446055","title":{"rendered":"Housing Minister Clare O&#8217;Neil Faces Criticism Over $375,000 Property Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O&#8217;Neil bought the two-bedroom East Melbourne unit for $1 million in 2014 and sold it for $1.375 million in 2023, before her July 2024 appointment as Housing Minister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critics online accuse her of hypocrisy, pointing to the sale&#8217;s timing ahead of Labor&#8217;s 2026 budget changes that limit negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts for new investors\u2014though existing properties like hers are unaffected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She defends the reforms as steps to build 1.2 million homes by 2030 and help first-time buyers, amid a softening Melbourne market where the apartment&#8217;s value has dropped to around $987,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She defends the reforms as steps to build 1.2 million homes by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":446057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[20389],"class_list":["post-446055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-claire-oneill"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446058,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446055\/revisions\/446058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/446057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}