Keyword "tax handouts" - List of latest news (17 results)

18:59 Warning house prices could soar by $100k

The Greens have warned that house prices could soar by over $100,000 next year as both the major parties throw everything but the kitchen sink at first home buyers.

08/04 Greens demand PM take axe to negative gearing

Greens leader Adam Bandt is set to detonate a negative gearing bomb in the election campaign demanding the PM wind back the landlord’s tax break if he wants to form government.

07/04 ‘How dare they’: Renter’s fury over super-for-housing election promise

A young woman has slammed the Liberal Party plan for first-home buyers to access their superannuation.

04/02 Insane amount Albo’s mansion will cost you

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to rent out his $4.3m coastal retirement home will deliver him a whopping tax saving.

22/12 ‘Unfair’: Grim picture for Aussie renters

Australians are paying “thousands” more this Christmas than they were last year to put a roof over their heads, according to fresh analysis.

17/10 Change that could put 296k homes up for sale

Negative gearing and capital gains tax reforms proposed by Labor at the 2019 election would have allowed nearly 750,000 new homeowners to enter the housing market, a new report shows.

25/09 Anthony Albanese under fire over negative gearing changes

Anthony Albanese has faced questions in Tasmania over whether he is considering big reforms to negative gearing, pointedly declining to rule out any future changes.

31/03 Eye-watering salary you need to buy a house

Australians wanting to buy a house are facing a brutal uphill battle, with the annual salary needed to be able to comfortably service a mortgage reaching sky high levels.

25/03 ‘Demonised’: Landlord’s angry renter rant

An Australian landlord has complained that she feels “demonised” by renters and made to feel guilty for owning property.

20/03 Eye-watering salary you need to buy a house

Australians wanting to buy a house need 1.6 times the average income to avoid falling into housing stress, new analysis has revealed.

05/03 Greens’ ambitious $28bn election bid

The Greens will go to the next election promising to scrap tax handouts and invest billions of dollars for a public property developer to build homes to plug critical housing gaps for renters and first-home buyers.

26/02 Albo’s major housing promise under threat

One of Anthony Albanese’s major election promises is in doubt after the Greens announced plans to kill Labor’s Help to Buy scheme unless the government meets its demands.

12/02 Senator announces shock resignation

Liberal senator Linda Reynolds will retire from federal parliament. The Western Australian senator, who served as defence minister from 2019 to 2021, announced she would not seek pre-selection for the next election due in 2025.

11/02 Threat to hold Albo’s big plan hostage

A major election promise to could be stalled unless the Albanese government walks back on its promise not to make changes to negative gearing.

21/01 ‘Scrap them’: Albo given $228bn warning

Tax breaks for property investors have created a quarter of a trillion dollar budget black hole that could instead fund 500,000 new social homes, a new report has found.

10/05 ‘Massive shortfall’: Budget slammed over housing crisis failure

The “biggest cost of living crisis” – where renters have been hit with massive rises and young people have been locked out of buying a home – was not tackled in the budget, and “bold” moves are needed solve the problem, according to experts.

05/03 Ten suburbs hit worst by rent hikes revealed

New data has revealed rental prices in some suburbs have increased by almost 50 per cent in the past year, pushing a growing number of tenants to breaking point.