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Standing tall By Dongyun Kwon
Alison Bowen at the top of Mt Everest.
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A Healesville paramedic Alison Bowen conquered the summit of Mount Everest on 21 May as part of her Seven Summits Challenge, climbing the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Mt Everest in Asia was her fifth summit out of seven. Ms Bowen said the experience of reaching the summit of Everest was “breathtaking”. “Reaching the summit was absolutely surreal,” she said. “You see so many documentaries and photos online but once you’re there, it’s amazing to see it all with your own eyes and know you’re standing above the 8,000-metre-tall mountains around you.” Ms Bowen conquered Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa in 2008, Mt Elbrus in Russia, the highest peak in Europe, in 2013, Mt Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest peak in South America, in 2020 and Mt Kosciuszko in Australia in 2007 and 2022. She is planning to conquer Denali in Alaska and Vinson Massif in Antarctica after a well-deserved rest. Turn to page 12 for more
Rental squeeze come out of nowhere over the last decade.” The report investigated Hepburn Shire, Mornington Peninsula, Byron Bay, Fremantle, Victor Harbor, Hobart, Noosa Heads, Coolum Beach, Port Douglas, the Whitsundays, Warburton and Apollo Bay, utilising data from the 2021 Census and AirDNA, an analytics platform which tracks performance and market data from short-term rental sites like Airbnb. The data on Warburton in the report finds that there are 136 active STRs, 25.5 per cent
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more than the number of long-term rentals with a 43 per cent occupancy rate and which 93 per cent are whole home listings (rather than a room). Warburton was an outlier even amongst others studied regarding the percentage of new supply, with the average of only one new home per annum and the influx of STRs meaning there is 970.4 per cent more STRs in Warburton than new homes and a 550 per cent decrease in the total rental supply as a percentage of total supply. Full story page 3
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A new report from the Grounded Community Land Trust (CLT) advocacy group has identified Warburton as a community that has been hit hard by the rise of short-term rentals. The author of the ‘Airbnb: from a housing problem to solution’ report is the founder and Director of Grounded Karl Fitzgerald. Mr Fitzgerald said the main finding of the report was that short-term rentals (STRs) had grown quicker than the total housing supply.
“In Warburton, according to the Census and due to the risk of fire, the ability to create new supply is severely curtailed and the Census showed that only one new home had been built each year over a decade,” he said. “There’s barely any new supply, but here is Airbnb growing at a rapid rate of knots and in Warburton, it was about comparing Airbnb’s and short-term rentals to the supply of longterm rentals and there was a 125 per cent growth in short-term rentals compared to long-term rentals and the growth has basically
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