Well-off investors with multiple properties own a majority of rental homes. They have no excuse not to do the right thing by their tenants.
Without innovation in all five building phases, the industry won’t have the capacity to meet market demands or to deliver the social and affordable housing the government is promising.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
Unlike many politicians, Anthony Albanese doesn’t appear to harbour a sense of entitlement to the top job – and his journey towards it has been a long one.
With an election imminent, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has splashed out billions in his “cost of living” budget, but is it enough to buy your vote?
The opposition leader isn’t as disliked as his predecessors, but voters also don’t have a clear sense of who he is and what he offers.
Governments will rely on taxation to repair the fiscal damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that will likely mean a GST rise, even if there are better, but politically unpalatable, alternatives.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and PM Scott Morrison pack the 2019 Federal Budget full of goodies as they push towards an election.
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