"I'm basically acting the whole time"
Scott Morrison wins ‘Best Actor’, ‘Best Costume Design’ at Academy Awards
As the Liberal Party desperately searches for a new minority group to attack, while the Labor Party desperately ducks and weaves its way to unexpected defeat this election, there is a glaring topic that is front of mind for 32% of the population.
We need to have a national conversation about renting in Australia.
Of course, we won’t. To say Australia’s political system is captured by the propertied classes is an understatement. Of the 227 politicians currently serving in Federal parliament, 212 own at least one house.
Put another way, the housing affordability crisis that currently besets 32% of Australian voters who rent their home, doesn’t affect 94% of our politicians.
Not only that, but 58% – 133 members of the Federal parliament – own more than one house. Albanese owns 3, in case you’re wondering.
We need to talk about the rent
Negative gearing should only apply to people who are treating housing
like it’s a social good. Instead, you’re treating housing like a
speculative asset with no social value. As such, it shouldn’t have any
tax benefits. You want to rent out your house only in the short term?
Fine. But you lose your access to negative gearing. You can look after
yourself, in much the same way you expect your tenants to look after
themselves.
A home is not a normal asset. If you get a place to rent and you like it, it becomes your home
LNP Criminal And Racist Co Conspiracy To Fleece Workers Wages Who Don't Vote
The Australian Government has done nothing and as such has been co conspirators in this act of wage theft. Any prosecution of participants in this criminal would lose them potential voters while the victims don’t vote but put downward pressure on workers conditions..
But it doesn’t appear to be a small cohort and it has been allowed to happen under the Australian government’s very own labour hire scheme. The government’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) sets no limit to the amount of money an employer can deduct from a worker’s pay for costs incurred as part of that employment.
Source: Questions raised over government scheme that left foreign workers with just $100 take-home pay – ABC
If true, the deaths of so many generals, alongside more senior Russian army and naval commanders – in just four weeks of combat – exceeds the attrition rate seen in the worst months of fighting in the bloody nine-year war fought by Russia in Chechnya, as well as Russian and Soviet-era campaigns in Afghanistan, Georgia and Syria.
Source: Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate
Matching Josh Frydenberg “scoops”, matching beauty pics, matching adoration
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Do photographs come with the government press releases these days?
Seems to be the latest marketing and PR innovation from the PM and Treasurer. For there, in the AFR and the Oz today, continuing their two-week run of Budget cash-splash “drops”, were beautiful photos of Josh Frydenberg in the same T-shirt running with a smile on his face.
Who runs with a smile on their face? Treasurers of course, when they are coincidentally the subject of matching effusive stories in supposedly competing media about how the government “will” cut petrol excise and spend billions on roads and rail.
No tut-tutting about fiscal rectitude here.
Don’t worry about the record, stratospheric debt and deficit, there is a Budget splash afoot.
Nine’s Age and SMH splash for their Budget curtain-raisers this weekend trumpeted a “$20bn Budget boost”, a “bouncing economy”, and a “historic decline in payments”. They truly do believe in miracles at Nine because the reality is historic debt and deficit and a rampant surge in the cost of living.
The government’s corporate media allies have elected to burnish the Coalition’s narrative that the economic forecast is slightly less disastrous than it was at the last forecast, not the reality that spiralling fossil fuel prices have made future receipts look slightly rosier and the outlook is for endless deficits and a possible downgrade in Australia’s credit ratings.
The cost of servicing debt towers above the forecast income. Here it is:
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