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Negative gearing
The battleground seats with the most negatively geared voters
A new report shows more than 120,000 voters in marginal seats are negatively geared – and reveals where the most people are using the property tax concession.
- by David Crowe and James Massola
Inflation falls as power subsidies and cheap petrol cut price pressure
- by Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
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Negative gearing
Negative gearing in Labor’s sights as Albanese readies for election battle
- by James Massola and David Crowe
Opinion & Perspectives
Dutton has a peculiar obsession with details. Perhaps he could offer some of his own
We know Peter Dutton likes calling for details. It’s become his familiar response to just about anything the government puts up. But when it comes to his plan for a nuclear revolution? Well ...
Shaun Carney
Columnist
Negative gearing isn’t the cause of our housing crisis, so curbing it isn’t the solution
Widely perceived as a tax rort that has blown up our housing market, the objective truth is it is nothing of the sort.
Steven Hamilton
Economist
If Albanese wants this fight, he’ll need to gear up for a big one
Negative gearing is a totemic policy because of the way any attempt at reform can be turned into an assault on aspiration or a scare about a tax grab.
David Crowe
Chief political correspondent
Federal
‘We’ve stuffed it’: Kokoda Track shut indefinitely, leaving tourists high and dry
Local authorities are scrambling to find a solution to reopen the popular trail, which would usually be enjoying one of its busiest periods of the year.
- by Matthew Knott
Opinion
Political leadership
Dutton has a peculiar obsession with details. Perhaps he could offer some of his own
We know Peter Dutton likes calling for details. It’s become his familiar response to just about anything the government puts up. But when it comes to his plan for a nuclear revolution? Well ...
- by Shaun Carney
Victoria
‘A very unusual situation’: Pesutto shared defamation settlement efforts with Kennett
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
Liberal MP claims Pesutto accused Deeming of organising Nazis at rally
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
Private medical and police record searches would be free under FOI shake-up
- by Broede Carmody and Rachael Dexter
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Naked City
Identity of Easey Street suspect revealed after arrest in Rome
- by John Silvester, Hannah Kennelly, Josephine Mckenna and Ashleigh McMillan
New South Wales
Queensland
Western Australia
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Planning and development
Perth Concert Hall’s $150 million refresh ramps up
- by Hamish Hastie