Opinions
OPINION
OECD says its time to cut the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing
The OECD’s annual survey of Australia’s economy this week bluntly noted what most Australians understand very clearly: housing is expensive and in short supply. The report highlighted issues with planning that restrict density in urban areas, but importantly it also noted the need to reform Australia’s tax system to stop favouring investors.
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Native forest logging is driving extinction and climate damage
The revelation that the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) is proposing to log a cloud forest in southern NSW teeming with threatened species is another reminder of the spiralling decline of the native forest logging industry.
OPINION
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Why we’re all the losers from the hate speech fracas
The biggest losers in the political brinkmanship Anthony Albanese and Labor lured Sussan Ley and the Liberals into with the hate group legislation no one wanted, is as always the public.
OPINION
CCS isn't climate action, it's an offset scam
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is an offsets zombie the government keeps trying to raise from the dead to prop up the future of fossil fuel projects.
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In our age of AI and constant crisis, real-life community is powerful and precious
So much is deeply wrong with the world right now, but when it comes to the sphere of life that is within my own influence – my home, my heart and my place within my community – I am the happiest I have ever been.
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Anthony Albanese was wise to split hate speech/gun control bill
The Albanese Government has made the right call in splitting its hate speech/gun control mega-bill.
OPINION
Strap in. We are about to see the worst of Australian politics.
It would be wrong to assume that a bad summer for Anthony Albanese (and no one can deny it was bad) meant a good summer for Sussan Ley and the Coalition.
