{"id":7828,"date":"2026-03-09T00:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:52:14","slug":"it-matters-if-you-have-a-parent-with-an-expensive-house-how-australias-great-wealth-transfer-threatens-faith-in-the-fair-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/09\/it-matters-if-you-have-a-parent-with-an-expensive-house-how-australias-great-wealth-transfer-threatens-faith-in-the-fair-go\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It matters if you have a parent with an expensive house\u2019: how Australia\u2019s great wealth transfer threatens faith in the fair go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australia is approaching a massive $5.4 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer as baby boomers pass assets to their heirs, a shift that economists warn will exacerbate social mobility and economic inequality. With more than half of personal wealth tied up in property, the &#8220;Bank of Mum and Dad&#8221; has become a primary driver of home ownership, leaving those without wealthy parents increasingly locked out of the market. This growing divide within younger generations threatens the traditional Australian concept of the &#8220;fair go&#8221; and could lead to a decline in social cohesion and trust in democratic institutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 15, 2026. <strong>Summary:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/16\/it-matters-if-you-have-a-parent-with-an-expensive-house-how-australias-great-wealth-transfer-threatens-faith-in-the-fair-go\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is approaching a massive $5.4 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer as baby boomers pass assets to their heirs, a shift that economists warn will exacerbate social mobility and economic inequality. With more than half of personal wealth tied up in property, the &#8220;Bank of Mum and Dad&#8221; has become a primary driver of home ownership, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8003,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions\/8003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}