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PHOTO: Thousands of renters plan to stop paying their landlords this month in a nationwide strike

Thousands of residential renters plan to stop paying their landlords this month in a nationwide strike as government negotiations stall and real estate agents claim they are being abused.

Tensions have reached a tipping point two weeks after the government introduced a raft of new coronavirus restrictions that have led to hundreds of thousands of workers being sacked or stood down and a moratorium implemented on evictions.

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Despite expectations of an Australia-wide consensus, the national cabinet on Tuesday urged tenants and landlords to negotiate with each other and gave the states responsibility for residential regulation.

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