Australian Policies -- from October 2024

[handypoint]

@falcon1500

Easiest way i think , to save all the b ulls hit that happents every couple of years , would be to index the tax free threshold to inflation.
Inflation up 5% , the tax free threshold i think is about 18,000 would go up by $900. Easy. Everybody wins , but the most benefit would be the lowest paid.

Teals are proposing exactly that

[handypoint]

@Humble_Minion

@handypoint

It’s a cut to the lowest tax bracket , so covers everyone earning an income that’s taxed

Taxpayers pay for the government.

And they will now pay less.

This is being sold as a cost of living measure. It just seems incomplete that some of the wealthiest people in the country will benefit from it, while the most hard-up get nothing. Cost of living doesn’t care if you work or not.

Rent price caps.
Reduction in demand for homes
Increase in supply of homes
(And likewise commercial premises. Lower rents for business)
End property speculation.

Affordable property flows through the economy in beneficial ways. It’s always been sold to the electorate that people spend more if their home goes up in value. I doubt that.

Construction activity encourages more people to spend. More jobs, better pay.

People don’t realise that if your rents on property decrease competition in business increases (as more people can afford to run them) and prices would you expect to moderate or go down.

And people renting have more money to spend in the economy

[Tezza_the_King]

it’s the second biggest load of ■■■■ . nuclear is a clear winner as far as loads of ■■■■ goes , and it’s the liberals signature biggest cost to any budget in Australian history.

[Walla]

I had Fels as a lecturer in the 1980’s. He seemed an old man then.
He must be 100+ now!

[percebushby]

@Clark_Griswold

@handypoint

And heaps of owners having solar hasn’t exactly brought down energy prices for the rest of us has it?

All those upfront discounts on the solar panels, to make them viable, are paid for by an additional amount in everyone else’s electricity bills.

It’s called “Renewable Energy Certificates”…in effect, everyone left on the grid, subsidises the people that get solar panels.

So put your brain in gear, Clark, and get solar, - with a battery !

[Clark_Griswold]

I’m a renter.

[percebushby]

Good on you - I was, too, when I was living in France - and I would be here, if we had the same pro-renter system here as there is in France ! This is one area where Labor is pisspoor - their approach to rent reform is as weak as it is contemptible. The only reason they get away with their pathetic inaction is that everybody knows that the Lieberal Fascists would be worse.

[Aceman]

That’s up to the government to provide more housing, they have no business telling property owners what they can or can’t charge.
Government wants cheaper rent then build more houses

[percebushby]

Fixed term rentals - say 5 years - at a fixed rate. When a tenancy changes, the amount by which the rent can be raised should be limited to a maximum percentage - say, inflation plus 2%.

Yes of course the governments should provide more rental housing so that the supply exceeds the demand - this is where the Labor lot keep falling down. But also landlords should be allowed a maximum number of properties that are tax-free - say two…

You landlords have too few constraints in this society.

[Alan_Noonan_10]

@OBITV

@Alan_Noonan_10

the Libs are filling their dacks and only realised how much trouble they were in a month ago.

The hysterical anti-Dyson pamphlets (no doubt you’re copping them as well) attest to that.

Well, he has given the the finger to the cops, disrespected the military and made jokes about the holocaust.

Do you want Wannon represented by a person like that?

Well, yes, yes I do.

Although if he turns up with Charlie Ballard or Dave Hughes, I’ll reconsider.

[percebushby]

@bigallan

NZ is about the only neighbour in the Indo Pacific region which permits dual citizenship.
Apart from Lebanon, NZ , US , Canada and Europe would probably account for most of our dual citizens , with the UK dominating.

Don’t forget Ireland.

[Bacchusfox]

Sorry handy but that doesn’t make sense.

Rents fall so everyone is happy ?

There would be little to no commercial property development for a start, as no-one with invest in this property sector. Most businesses lease property, some small business owners invest in property for their retirement.

[Aceman]

If that ever came in I’d rather my properties sit vacant. No pleb pollies will ever tell me what I can or can’t charge for MY house

[Soulnet]

@Soulnet

Postal voting open.

Official non data collecting by Parties website.

Postal voting - Australian Electoral Commission

Is working today.

Vote 1, Tazos.

[tinhillterror]

@Alan_Noonan_10

Dan Tehan

I need a photo op for a press release in Timboon. It’s a good news story for the local community.

Is it likely I need to use Dan, or is there someone local to the region that is popular?

[barnz]

the whole point is your house would only be your OO

[Humble_Minion]

@Bacchusfox

There would be little to no commercial property development for a start, as no-one with invest in this property sector. Most businesses lease property, some small business owners invest in property for their retirement.

We’re so oversupplied with commercial property that Dutton is basically promising to make permanent RTO mandatory (except for him) just to get bums back on cubicle seats to prop up the market. Not to mention the long-term trend away from shopfronts and towards online sellers in specialty markets like books.

A slowdown in supply of commercial property is not a bad thing at this point.

[jonovdp]

@handypoint

I think Dutton’s xenophobic dual citizenship thought bubble backfired on him as preferred leader.

And also the ‘get public servants back in the office’ policy.

Which was very much taken by the wider population, that everyone should be working in the office full time.

Many of the people who took offence to Dutton alluding to ‘people working from home are slacking off’, are living in the metropolitan suburbs that Liberal wants to win back.

It’s been a terrible campaign for the LNP

[Bacchusfox]

@Humble_Minion

We’re so oversupplied with commercial property

When you see all the commercial building going on in western suburbs, there is no oversupply.

[beastie]

Are you talking warehousing? It follows the cheapest land.

Pretty sure shopfronts and offices are not going gang busters