The Australian yesterday published the quarterly Newspoll aggregates, which combine three months of polling to produce breakdowns by state and various demographic indicators with credible sample sizes. The state breakdowns record the Coalition leading 51-49 in New South Wales (unchanged on the previous quarter, for a swing to the Coalition of around 2.5% from the 2022 election); Labor leading 52-48 in Victoria (in from 54-46, a Coalition swing of around 3%); the Coalition leading 54-46 in Queensland (steady on both the last quarter and the last election); Labor leading 52-48 in Western Australia (steady, a Coalition swing of around 3%); and Labor leading 54-46 in South Australia (out from 53-47, no swing from 2022). The national two-party preferred through this period was 50-50, after Labor led 51-49 last quarter. The results combine four Newspoll surveys from July 15 to September 20 with an overall sample of 5035, ranging from 374 in South Australia to 1592 in New South Wales.
The weekly Roy Morgan poll has the Coalition leading 51-49 on respondent-allocated preferences, after they trailed 50.5-49.5 last week, but these seem unduly favourable to them: the primary votes are Labor 30% (down two), Coalition 38% (up half), Greens 13.5% (up one) and One Nation 4.5% (down half), and the pollster’s two-party measures based on 2022 election preferences have Labor leading 51.5-48.5, in from 52-48. The poll was conducted Monday to Sunday from a sample of 1668.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-11/6-times-pollies-were-caught-out-by-a-mic/6768798?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web
This may help some of you understand why many don’t appreciate the Greens supporting these characters in any manner at all.
I await with bated breath Penny’s next utterance of wisdom.
The federal government will reintroduce its Help to Buy bill to parliament, readying an election trigger.
The housing minister asserts using the bill to trigger a double dissolution election is a “serious proposition”.
The housing bill would need to be sent to the Senate and rejected again in order to create a trigger.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-02/double-dissolution-election-threat-bill-reintroduced-housing/104419400
Iran says it has launched a barrage of over 100 ballistic missiles at Israel, mainly Tel Aviv. Videfo shows some but not all were intercepted by the Israeli’s Iron Dome system. There are reports of dozens of explosions and possibly hundreds of dead in Israel. Iron Dome may have been overwhelmed by numbers. With this plus an Israeli invasion of Lebanon, there is effectively a war in the Mid-East now.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/iran-imminent-ballistic-missile-attack-israel-us-warns
C@tmomma @ 7.45am (tuesday)
Our previous, useless member.
Oil prices up 4% after the Wall Street Journal reports that Israel sent ‘clear messages’ to Iran that it would respond to any hit on Israeli territory, and that it ‘specifically said it would directly hit Iran’s nuclear or oil facilities’.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
If the country wants a tax system that works, doesn’t distort investment decisions and could take some heat out of the property market, start with the concessional system of capital gains tax, argues Shane Wright who says that the concession, put in place by Peter Costello in 1999, has become one of the key – if little debated – factors in the debate about property. He makes a good case.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/never-mind-negative-gearing-this-is-the-real-steal-20241001-p5kexy.html
Investors beware: tax changes are in the air, and they could come when you least expect them, warns Noel Whitaker in an interesting contribution.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/tax/why-investors-should-prepare-for-major-tax-changes-20241001-p5kew7.html
Peter Martin reckons winding back negative gearing would get more Australians into homes they own. He explains the fiction at the heart of the scheme. A good read!
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8780127/peter-martin-remember-when-david-koch-challenged-negative-gearing/?cs=14258
A discussion on ABC’s Insiders sidelined the plight of the elderly and disabled through Australia’s housing crisis, focusing on problems of the younger generation, writes Melissa Marsden.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/insiders-ignores-hard-facts-of-housing-crisis,19024
Failure to pay tax on private jets, luxury yachts and exotic cars could trigger a deeper investigation by the Australian Taxation Office into how people earned the money to afford so-called “lifestyle assets”, according to tax specialists.
https://www.afr.com/wealth/personal-finance/how-the-ato-caught-taxpayers-cheating-on-lifestyle-assets-20240927-p5ke0o
The economic environment is so bad that the City of Melbourne should abandon plans for affordable housing targets, Lord Mayor Nick Reece has told a lord mayoral debate on housing.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-lord-mayor-backflips-on-plans-for-affordable-housing-20240930-p5ken4.html
Federal government net debt has fallen to its lowest level since 2017, but economists say the coming decade of deficits will send borrowing levels higher, writes Michael Read.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/debt-hits-seven-year-low-before-decade-of-deficits-20241001-p5kf03
Peter Dutton will host a flurry of fundraisers in Sydney and Melbourne, including at a club that doesn’t allow women to become members.
https://www.smh.com.au/cbd/peter-dutton-to-host-5000-a-head-fundraiser-at-male-only-club-20241001-p5kez7.html
The mainstream media’s habit of giving false equivalency to the Left and the Right needs to end as the contrasts between the two are stark, writes Victoria Fielding.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/media-inflating-false-equivalency-between-left-and-right,19023
Shonky therapies, lifestyle purchases and health and education services that should be covered by state governments have been struck out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in the first official list outlining what taxpayers will and won’t fund, reports Natassia Chrysanthos. Yesterday Bill Shorten said drugs, alcohol and sexual services are explicitly ruled out in new laws, while spending funds on rent, food and holidays is no longer possible.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/cuddle-therapy-out-holidays-nixed-here-s-what-ndis-won-t-pay-for-any-more-20241001-p5kf13.html
The growth in out-of-pocket costs to see a GP is a tangible sign that our world-beating health system is strained, writes Matt Wade who points out that Australia’s illness-prevention policies lag many comparable countries.
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/why-this-unhealthy-trend-may-become-an-ill-wind-for-medicare-20241001-p5kf0o.html
Former MP Matt Bach was warned on his first day in parliament that conversations in the Liberal Party were often “surreptitiously” recorded, he told the Federal Court yesterday. Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst report on the Deeming case proceedings.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/many-things-are-taped-secretly-in-the-victorian-liberal-party-court-hears-20241001-p5kf00.html
The ABC’s management must commit to long-term systemic change to break a cycle of discrimination, after a long-awaited review found overwhelming evidence of racism at the public broadcaster. Outgoing ABC boss David Anderson has told current and former staff he is “truly sorry” to those who have experienced racist behaviour and past harms following the publication of the Listen Loudly, Act Strongly review, led by Dr Terri Janke yesterday afternoon.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/abc-boss-apologises-to-staff-after-review-finds-systemic-racism-20241001-p5kexf.html
Matt O’Sullivan tells us that a plane will land and take off from Sydney’s new international airport for the first time this afternoon, in a historic milestone for the aviation hub which is quickly taking shape near the foothills of the Blue Mountains.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/first-plane-to-touch-down-at-sydney-s-new-international-airport-20240930-p5keqr.html
It would be reckless for Treasurer Jim Chalmers to even try to deny Qatar’s application to buy a 25 per cent stake in Virgin, writes Elizabeth Knight who tells us why this time the government cannot say no again – even if it is a wedge.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-big-aviation-wedge-why-the-government-can-t-say-no-again-to-qatar-20241001-p5kewg.html
Virgin’s deal with Qatar will make it a stronger competitor to Qantas. But the two airlines are set to duke it out over one key part of the new arrangement, explains the AFR’s Chanticleer.
https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/this-is-where-the-next-battle-between-virgin-and-qantas-will-be-fought-20241001-p5kf18
Amid Australia’s chaotic climate politics, the rooftop solar boom is an unlikely triumph, explains Adam Morton. He says it’s difficult to overstate how rapidly Australians have embraced solar power – there’s now more rooftop solar than coal-fired power. The key question is what policymakers can learn from its success
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/amid-australias-chaotic-climate-politics-the-rooftop-solar-boom-is-an-unlikely-triumph
NineFax tells us that federal authorities have vowed action against people flying outlawed terror flags at protests this weekend to mark the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, as NSW Police started court action to stop the demonstrations going ahead in Sydney.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/police-promise-action-at-weekend-s-anniversary-protests-if-flags-are-flown-20241001-p5ketw.html
Electric vehicle batteries should be tested as part of compulsory roadworthy checks to improve safety and lift the uptake of EVs, according to the chief executive of one of Australia’s largest insurers. Sumeyya Ilanbey reports that NRMA chief Julie Batch has said “busting EV myths” was critical if the nation wanted to encourage a more rapid transition to a greener fleet.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/call-to-test-ev-batteries-for-roadworthy-certificates-after-spate-of-lithium-ion-battery-fires-20240927-p5ke0k.html
David Crisafulli signalled he would extend the life of a coal-fired power station, as Steven Miles spruiked the government’s green credentials, on the first day of the official Queensland election campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/01/queensland-state-election-lnp-coal-power-extension-steven-miles-david-crisafulli
The Government did not want you to know of its gas betrayal of Australians, so when FOI legal costs shot up eight-fold, they didn’t bat an eyelid. It’s just part of the cost of protecting the cartel, writes Rex Patrick.
https://michaelwest.com.au/government-hides-gas-cartels-dirty-secrets-in-clayton-utz-fee-fest/
There are few economies on the planet more concentrated in terms of vital services and markets than Australia. The players and actors are few and far between, be they in banking, insurance, supermarkets, the media or the aviation market, writes Binoy Kampmark.
https://johnmenadue.com/supermarket-pirates-the-coles-woolworths-racket/
The Albanese government made a last-minute rejection to proposed questions on sexuality and gender diversity in the upcoming 2026 census, sending bureaucrats into a weekend scramble, new documents show. In the late hours of Friday 23 August and Saturday 24 August, officials at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) agreed to cancel a scheduled media briefing on Monday 26 August and the rollout of its “large-scale” test census to 50,000 households from Tuesday 27 August as a result of the 11th-hour decision. Documents released to Guardian Australia in a freedom of information request show how the independent statistics agency scrambled to ditch its plans within a weekend after a delayed final decision by government.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/02/labors-11th-hour-decision-on-lgbtq-census-questions-prompted-weekend-scramble-documents-reveal
“Is this the Tory leadership race or the seventh circle of hell?”, askes John Crace who says the woeful standard of wannabe leaders – KemiKaze, Jimmy Dimly, Honest Bob – proves the Tories’ masochistic need to be abused.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/01/is-this-the-tory-leadership-race-or-the-seventh-circle-of-hell
Iran has fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel overnight in retaliation for Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, and Israel vowed a “painful response” against its enemy. Alarms sounded across Israel and explosions could be heard in Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley after Israelis piled into bomb shelters. Reporters on state television lay flat on the ground during live broadcasts. Here we go again!
https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/israel-on-alert-for-possible-strike-from-iran-as-it-vows-limited-ground-incursion-in-lebanon-20241002-p5kf4d.html
Israel now enters a newly dangerous phase in its dreadful but necessary military campaign against the Lebanese Shi’ite terror group Hezbollah, says Greg Sheridan.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/challenging-and-dangerous-days-ahead-for-israel/news-story/02ddc8f49b5fc762d74d5f57ef6409ee?amp
Israel has vowed to retaliate after Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at targets across Israel in a dramatic escalation of a conflict that appeared to be escalating out of control. “Iran made a big mistake tonight – and it will pay for it,” Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of his security cabinet late on Tuesday. “The regime in Iran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and our determination to retaliate against our enemies.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/israel-vows-to-retaliate-after-iran-launches-unprecedented-missile-attack
“Israel has a history of unsuccessful invasions of Lebanon. Will this time be any different?”, wonders the ANU’s Amin Saikal.
https://theconversation.com/israel-has-a-history-of-unsuccessful-invasions-of-lebanon-will-this-time-be-any-different-240210
Tony Burke has accused Peter Dutton of seeking to “raise the temperature” of public debate over conflict in the Middle East, after protests on the weekend included some people holding the Hezbollah flag. The opposition leader had suggested parliament should be recalled to enact new anti-terror laws that would cover such actions, if it was not already illegal.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/01/peter-dutton-tony-burke-hezbollah-flags-middle-east-visas-israel-lebanon-gaza-war
Most Australians want Harris to beat Trump. But what does she want for Australia? Michael Fullilove outlines all the reasons 73% of Australians think this way.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/most-australians-want-harris-to-beat-trump-but-what-does-she-want-for-australia-20241001-p5kex0.html
Paul Krugman tells us about the tech bro billionaires pushing the US closer to catastrophe.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/the-tech-bro-billionaires-pushing-the-us-closer-to-catastrophe-20240930-p5kelh.html
If Donald Trump wins the election and follows through on his economic threats, it could destroy a system that has been in place since the end of World War II, writes Stephen Bartholomeusz who says it would probably spell the end of the World Trade Organisation, which Trump threatened to withdraw from when he was last in office, and would cause a large-scale realignment of global trade relationships and economic flows.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/trump-wants-to-shut-america-off-from-the-rest-of-the-world-20241001-p5keu1.html
Donald Trump is gaining on Kamala Harris in the polls. Robert Reich has some theories on why.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/trump-gaining-on-harris-polls-theories
Sydney accountant and self-described insolvency adviser Wayne Fraser has been charged by the corporate regulator with multiple criminal offences over a scheme in which “dummy” directors were allegedly installed in companies before they were declared insolvent, leaving creditors owed money. The charges follow a long-running investigation by The Australian into schemes run by the South African-born Mr Fraser, including one in which a mystery caravan park resident with no assets became owner of more than 20 companies that went on to be liquidated owing creditors money. Definitely a candidate for “Arsehole of the Week”.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/alleged-phoenix-scheme-operator-wayne-fraser-facing-criminal-charges/news-story/2773b8b455fa243563915316185aa2ba?amp
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From the US
Holdenhillbillysays:
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 7:07 am
The federal government will reintroduce its Help to Buy bill to parliament, readying an election trigger.
The housing minister asserts using the bill to trigger a double dissolution election is a “serious proposition”.
The housing bill would need to be sent to the Senate and rejected again in order to create a trigger.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-02/double-dissolution-election-threat-bill-reintroduced-housing/104419400
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I guess this confrontation will trigger speculation of a DD again i n the MSM and the Coalition will try to make something of it and the Greens will once again go with radical populism demands and claims they are acting in good faith. Yeah right. I hope it puts a question mark in the minds of people who voted Green in Brisbane, Griffith, Ryan and Wills in 2022. Blocking policy aimed at renters and home buyers in the 25-49 cohort is not very bright.
Thanks BK
Peter Dutton will host a flurry of fundraisers in Sydney and Melbourne, including at a club that doesn’t allow women to become members.
https://www.smh.com.au/cbd/peter-dutton-to-host-5000-a-head-fundraiser-at-male-only-club-20241001-p5kez7.html
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Oh thats going to down a treat with women voters in Teal electorates the Libs are trying to win back and Teal challenge electorates like Wannon and Bradfeild. Well played Mr Dutton.
mj @ #294 Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 – 11:46 pm
So how come The Greens’ fan club here have started saying, ‘the Labor political party’?
It just makes me think of this:
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
– Oscar Wilde.
🙂
Thanks BK!
“If the country wants a tax system that works, doesn’t distort investment decisions and could take some heat out of the property market, start with the concessional system of capital gains tax, argues Shane Wright who says that the concession, put in place by Peter Costello in 1999, has become one of the key – if little debated – factors in the debate about property. He makes a good case.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/never-mind-negative-gearing-this-is-the-real-steal-20241001-p5kexy.html”
This.
Do not bring in 1.1 million people as federal labor has done there’s your housing crisis now cannot get rid of them as students are applying for asylum.
And yesterday new housing starts went backwards 6 percent.
Disaster there is your major inflation noticed today retailers warning RBA not to increase interest rates due to retail sales spending increase .
That’s due to labor changing the tax cut mix to put more money into the hands of people that spend it.
Inflation high already and now people look to be spending the tax cuts.Interest rate cuts not happening.
All own goals by labor no wonder they want an early election trigger.
pied pipersays:
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 8:10 am
Do not bring in 1.1 million people as federal labor has done there’s your housing crisis now cannot get rid of them as students are applying for asylum.
And yesterday new housing starts went backwards 6 percent.
Disaster theres your inflation noticed today retailers warning RBA not to increase interest rates due to retail sales spending increase .
That’s due to labor changing the tax cut mix to put more money into the hands of people that spend it.
Inflation high already and now people look to be spending the tax cuts.Interest rate cuts not happening.
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And here’s the walking video game NPC.
As P1 would say: “Vote Independent!”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/andrew-thaler-has-called-female-council-workers-fat-dumb-and-useless-now-he-s-been-elected-a-councillor-20241001-p5kexv.html
#weatheronPB
Indifferent grey air,
slightly cool but uncertain.
Carelessly drifting.
“If the country wants a tax system that works, doesn’t distort investment decisions and could take some heat out of the property market, start with the concessional system of capital gains tax, argues Shane Wright who says that the concession, put in place by Peter Costello in 1999, has become one of the key – if little debated – factors in the debate about property. He makes a good case.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/never-mind-negative-gearing-this-is-the-real-steal-20241001-p5kexy.html”
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I agree that it needs to be changed. But Wright, like many journalists before him, continue to imply that the change implemented by Howard-Costello in 1999-2000 was a “discount” that didn’t previously exist and that was introduced in order to reward rich people.
Something had to be done back then because the system of calculating the CGT payable on assets where capital improvements had been undertaken was far too complicated for ordinary people to understand, and thereby lacked the sort of transparency that government policy ought to possess.
But, with the benefit of hindsight, 50 per cent was too much, because the average rate of inflation over the 25 years since 1999-2000 has been much, much lower than over the decades prior. Nevertheless, a large amount of CGT has been collected from investors over the past 25 years, and there is an argument that the relatively generous discount provides something of a disincentive to people organising their affairs in order to minimise the amount they are liable to play. But the discount is far too generous to short-term investors who make quick and sizeable capital gains, and that’s the biggest problem with it.
As I’ve posted before, I think the entire approach to CGT needs to be reviewed. The concept that (once any discount is applied) it should be taxed at the marginal income tax rate is based on an outmoded idealistic principle that “all income should be treated in the same way.” The fact is that there are many ways in which income from assets is not treated in the same way as income from salaries and wages: eg, deductions for depreciation, negative gearing, etc, etc. Indeed, the whole concept that the rate of CGT should be discounted to take account of inflation is unique to income from assets: the tax rates for wage and salary income are not indexed.
The current CGT arrangements incentivise people to hang onto their assets while their wage and salary incomes are high and sell them when their wage and salary incomes are low: distorting markets and encouraging people to seek out various ways of reducing their taxable income as a whole. If people get their calculations wrong, or are forced to sell for some reason, they are seriously disadvantaged. I think a fairer, simpler and more transparent arrangement would be a two-tiered CGT tax with no discounts, set at a relatively low rate (eg, 10 per cent for assets held for the longer term and 15-20 per cent for assets turned over quickly).
Accountants and financial advisors would hate it, because it would take away a lot of the complex calculations that they can charge their clients for undertaking. Good.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/seawolf-class-submarine-slammed-underwater-mountain-near-china-210772
Indeed MB
The old saying that there is no legal tax avoidance but many careers are based on tax deferment with resultant distortion of numerous markets
Much appreciated BK.
Lots to get through!
Oakeshott Country: “Indeed MB
The old saying that there is no legal tax avoidance but many careers are based on tax deferment with resultant distortion of numerous markets”
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That’s why I also hate family trusts: except for ridgey didge farming families and a small range of other family businesses that genuinely trade in markets and have not been set up simply for the purposes of tax “deferment.”
I understand that Costello looked at doing something to reduce the amount of tax revenue foregone through family trusts, but that he persuaded few if any of his colleagues that it was a good idea. And a rather poorly-articulated and under the radar proposal to charge a flat 30 per cent tax on all distributions from family trusts was part of Shorten’s 2019 election platform, but got very little attention at the time in comparison to the proposed neg gearing, CGT and franking credits changes.
Unfortunately, there are stakeholders on both sides of politics who don’t want to see any changes to the rules for trusts. On Labor’s side, many tradies use them: and, while I think the tradie vote has swung strongly to the right in recent decades, many tradies who regularly vote Liberal also still belong to militant unions that Labor hasn’t wanted to get offside (although that might now be changing with the CFMEU kerfuffle).
And the LNP has a lot of farmers and other wealthy supporters who make heavy use of family trusts for the purposes of tax “deferment.”
So I’m not holding my breath for any changes in the foreseeable future.
Andrew_Earlwood @ #314 Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024 – 8:14 am
Maybe she voted for him? He’s from down her way. 🙂
Hear! Hear!
Jillian Segal, the special envoy on combatting antisemitism, spoke with ABC RN earlier this morning following the Iranian missile attack on Israel overnight.
Segal said she is “very concerned about what we are seeing on our streets” in Australia, and pointed to the alleged display of Hezbollah flags at a rally last weekend:
I think that was truly shocking for the Jewish community, and should be shocking for the general community, because we must challenge terrorism.
Segal said that if the current legislation isn’t strong enough to address this, “then we need to revise them”. You can read more about this below:
Segal also said she plans to set up a meeting with the special envoy on combatting Islamophobia, Aftab Malik:
I think it’s very important that we work separately with our communities and with the general community, and we work together, because we’re all about reducing antisemitism, reducing hatred, and increasing social cohesion.
And we need to put our heads together and work with the community as a whole, and try and bring about that situation here where what happens in the Middle East does not undermine our social cohesion here in Australia, and I think that’s everyone’s wish.
(The Guardian)
NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has disposed of lesser problems than Thaler before.
https://www.olg.nsw.gov.au/councils/misconduct-and-intervention/councillor-misconduct/information-about-councillor-misconduct/
Let’s be clear about the help to buy scheme.
It’s purpose is not to alleviate the housing crisis. Like all similar schemes, it’s purpose is to give the impression of doing something about the housing crisis while using taxpayer money to send property prices further into the stratosphere. Sadly, a lot of voters are not very bright, so it seems to be having the desired effect.
Nevertheless, the threat of a DD on the issue is the most empty threat in the history of empty threats. It’s an obvious tactical blunder, because the government will look like whimps when they fail to carry it out.
Thanks for the roundup BK. I agree with OC and MB that tax reform to the CGT discount may be the fairest and most practical way to fix current tax distortions in the housing market. Certainly some action is needed.
Politically, that might also be a lot easier than a direct attack on negative gearing per se, since that was what was ruled out after 2019.
Yeah sure AM the Help to Buy scheme is a dastardly plan to raise house prices and make it harder for first home buyers. Why didnt they think of that brilliant election strategy before ? And you call some voters “not very bright”. Please continue to favour us more with your superior political wisdom.
We are killing your relatives overseas and destroying their homes, but you’re responsible for undermining social cohesion.
Very helpful messaging from the antisemitism envoy that has yet to speak out or highlight any actual antisemitism from the many many anti-semites and anti-semitic groups that operate in Australia
The Western Australian government has a help to buy scheme, (called ‘Shared Home Ownership’) and nobody can deny it’s been a rip-roaring tearaway success. House prices in Perth have risen more strongly than in any other capital city.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-01/house-prices-breakdown-by-state-territory-capital-city-region/103784240
Yesterday the Anti-Islamohobia envoy opined that Islamophobes and antisemites are the same people.
So that rules out muslims as a problem and leaves Buddhists, Confucians, Bah’ai, Animists and, er, Christians.
I see that Dutton and Bandy are continuing to pour petrol on communal tensions.
The Greens Guardian is still gnawing at a Census question.
AM
As have house prices elsewhere. But hey don’t get between a Greens and misrepresentations for a vote.
The reality is that Labor has put more funding into social housing than any government this century and the Greens despise that.
“As have house prices elsewhere. ”
Prices elsewhere have risen more strongly than in any other capital city?
It’s not actually possible for prices in more than one capital city to rise more than every other capital city, so I’m not sure exactly what you’re trying to …
Oh, never mind. Whatever you say.
CBC is documentary on Online Gambling epidemic..
“the purpose of it is so you play till extinction … till or your money is gone”… Albo & Labor are willing accomplices.
“Yesterday the Anti-Islamohobia envoy opined that Islamophobes and antisemites are the same people.”
Probably the 4chan groypers that now have centre stage on x
AM
So why is it part of The greens platform:
The Greens will:
Establish a shared ownership scheme to help people currently locked out of the market to own their first home
https://greens.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-01/Greens-2022-Policy-Platform–Services–Homes.pdf
C@tmomma says:
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 9:41 am
I think we should ask the opinion of the 40,000+ dead if anti-semitisam is a life & death matter
I get the sense that the mainstream media across the board are boosting Dutton and are presenting him as the PM in waiting.
Latest ABC News update “Peter Dutton condemns Iran”.
Douglas and Milko,
It’s probably part of the Greens’ platform for the same reason it’s part of Labor’s. To give the impression of doing something.
I don’t care which party suggests it, it’s still a cynical idea.
The majority of Australians want a tax system that works for them.
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Labor has put more money into housing supply than any government this century.
Much of the supply is targeted to those most in need.
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The Extreme Greens have delayed or blocked more housing supply than any Party this year.
The Greens will soon have an Iranian flag to add to their collection to wave along with the Hamas and Hezbollah ones.
I suppose at least Iran isn’t a registered terrorist organisation.
Labor having a sook that the Greens are showing support for th Lebanese / Middle Eastern communities that were formerly part of Labor’s core base. Labor has effectively abandoned core parts of their base in favour of appeasing powerful vested interests. Now Labor is having winge about the Greens for highlighting Labor’s duplicity and hypocrisy.
Maybe those relatives should have done something about Hamas and Hezbollah, or are they supporters?
Just like The Greens blocked the CPRS. Same old playbook. What’s in it for them not what’s best for the country.
For those that claim that being anti-Israel and being antisemitic are quite distinct, I will repeat this post:
Sceptic says:
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 11:04 am
I think we should ask the opinion of the 40,000+ dead if anti-semitisam is a life & death matter.
VP candidate Tim Walz is doing a pretty good job of the VP debate right now. Vance is well schooled but less convincing. Neither will get a boost or a boot from this debate. The only clanger for Trump was the hosts reminding voters Trump called climate change a hoax and the immigrants in Springfeild are legal immigrants.
The Vic Libs party room seems like a snake pit.
They are unelectable.
“Maybe those relatives should have done something about Hamas and Hezbollah, or are they supporters?”
I guess they should have been born sooner in order to be old enough to vote in the last election that took place before many of them were born