Australia’s Anglican Diocese of North Queensland has won Supreme Court approval to sell 11 churches and rectories to meet abuse redress obligations of up to $11 million, after a judge warned it could otherwise be insolvent within months.

Hillsong says it is exploring options for its Hills campus in New South Wales after reports of a more than A$1 billion plan for up to 915 apartments, but insists no final development plans or timeline have been confirmed.

In 2025 Queensland released an opt-in Model Code, co-designed with 14 councils, to make it easier to build community housing on church and charity-owned land, a move welcomed by the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.

A Brisbane couple who once lived in their car face eviction from a Uniting Church-owned farmhouse on land earmarked for a 92-lot subdivision, after a tribunal refused the church’s bid for secrecy.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne told Victoria’s Yoorrook truth-telling inquiry its church buildings are insured for $3.3 billion across 350 sites, as commissioners asked about colonial land grants and sharing sale proceeds with Traditional Owners.

Brisbane’s Catholic Archdiocese faced a residents’ petition over its plan for 44 affordable homes on 17,300 square metres of church land at Wakerley, but Queensland’s government approved the project in April 2025.

Sydney Anglican Property prepared plans for two church sites in south-west Sydney, 185 social and affordable homes at St Paul’s Bankstown and 74 at a former church in Regents Park, backed by the federal Housing Australia Future Fund.

The Lutheran Church of Australia sold its under-used North Adelaide college campus, which cost $400,000 a year to maintain, for more than $50 million, with a developer planning at least 50 homes priced from $3.5 million.

Christchurch Methodist Mission opened five social homes for homeless families on land given by a Methodist parish, following a church decision that parishes should make surplus land available for social housing.

The Catholic Church leases rather than sells about 21 acres of beachside land in Manly, gifted around 1850, charging 1 per cent of property value per year to extend leases, an arrangement the ABC found unique among Australian churches.