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A prodigee of Abbott? Be careful what you ask for.

I am not shamed to say I am pro Israel. I admire their strength and tenacity in a region of evil and terror. I wish them complete success in defeating those who cry death to Israel.

He's a Dill acting for the Coal Industry. and He's only a Senator. (Not directly elected) and dresses Up as a Tradie. It's the NATS that have killed the Libs. Nev

I wonder if that means that Trump immediately reimposes sanctions on Russian oil now. I think I know the answer.

I am helping my mother-in-law into a nursing home. We are struggling to rearrange her "wealth" to provide aged care (dementia) in a manner that the funds from sale of her home will last her life out. And that is with the present CGT rules. I object to people blaming the oldies for the present housing crisis. When an average person has struggled to pay off a home with tax paid worker's income why do they have to pay tax on the sale of the home? It may look like a profit but it isn't enough to buy an equivalent home at today's prices. So there is no real 'profit'. Even though the numbers of the cheque are massively bigger. As for redistributing this ficticious wealth, my mother-in-law's estate won't pass on enough for any of the younger generation to even put a deposit on their home. The bank of mum and dad (in this case of grandma), is empty. However, owners of multiple properties are investors, and should pay tax on those financial gains.

The only similar experience I've had was not with the Greens, but with our local environment council which is an independent organisation. Back before the tree clearing laws came in, a landowner near me with a 20 acre block on the side of a hill got a dozer and cleared the lot, then got an excavator to terrace the whole block like rice paddies. It looked awful, like a giant rock quarry and could be seen for miles. Probably the worst eyesore I've ever seen in the district. I decided to let the environment council know without naming names, just to inform them of the type of thing the shire council was approving. I thought it might be in their interest. They were barely interested, and all they seemed interested in was shoving brochures and membership application forms in my face. I walked out of there fairly disgusted that all they seemed to want was membership money. I think it was probably individual staff on the day to blame rather than the whole organisation.

Fine. A nice step, but only a little step. When do you think they will address the big players who offshore their profits to avoid tax? A few billion recovered there would help Australia's bottom line.

Albo has never held a real Job, always was a labor lackey, so what he lived in social housing and his Mum was a single parent, this did not set him up to be the prime minister of this great country, many of us emigrant(i came here 56 years ago), when you could walk to a new job the next day if you didnt like it always was more jobs than workers, then came the labor /socialist party to power ,downhill we all went , rents went up, morgage went up, fuel went up, labor spend like there is no tomorrow,taxes go up,yada yada yada, why do we as a nation keep voting these no talent pollies (on both sides) to power, we are not all fools, is it because the 2 party system splits us into different sides, the greens are a waste of taxpayers money to pay them, indepentants never achieve much at all ,One Nation seems to attract some strange people (but i do like the sentiments they espouse). we need strong politicians that see that our back is now up against the wall and take strong measures to counter this, relying on asia for our fuel is stupid, asians think we are all racist in Aus, they can bring us to our knees anytime they want, we as a country cannot survive without fuel and forget going full solar it is not ideal for the vastness of our great country, immigration should be stopped completely we are full up . As a country we need to go fully independant for our safety and advancement, yes i think we should go slightly isolationist for a while bring us back to a even keel, I am in the last years of my life , so wont see changes but i hope my kids and grandkids do

Here's something really random. My son works from home 3 days a week and goes to the office on the other two. When he works in the office, he usually gets home between 7.15 and 7.30 pm. The dog starts barking at the door from 7.15, and yaps till Andrew walks through the door. Andrew is currently on 10 days holiday in Thailand with a couple of mates. The dog still barks at the door from 7.15 till we reprimand him.

Litespeed, just a suggestion, maybe tone down on the insults to posters you don't agree with and try posting on your position without playing the man. It's a bit disrespectful, and I've really noticed this forum getting quite toxic lately. Forumites can be polite and still disagree.

They're not rants, just long posts putting forward a lot of points that can't be squeezed into a one-liner like a lot of replies on the forum are. I've seen rants on this forum in the past but none with Jerry's signature. And to clear one thing up, I'm not defending Jerry because I'm pro Israel, I'm not. I'm not pro either side and personally couldn't give two hoots if both sides battled it out to the end, as long as they don't bring their hatred here to our country.

Hell yeah , scary stuff. Noticed to he seems all in on Chump and the yanks too, that ain't good.

Well, I hope to stay here full term Marty. Getting rated off the place would be the only thing stopping me, but at the moment it's affordable. And it suits me not living like a king. I've got a lifestyle here kings could only dream about.

Equity is equity. If you're sitting on a property worth $3m then you're not a "pensioner with the arse out of your pants", you could get a reverse mortgage and live like a king for the rest of your life. If you choose not to, that's fine, but you do have that option. On the other hand you have people who, often through no fault of their own, didn't end up owning a house. They don't have that option. Don't get me wrong, I think it's fantastic that you still live on the property you bought 38 years ago, I hope to do the same. (On my property, not yours 😄)

I haven't read a lot of news on the government plans, but haven't seen any reference to anybody thinking of introducing tax on the family home. The only reference I've seen to it is the daydreams of an ANU twit in this article: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/4m-pensioners-how-australia-s-tax-system-subsidises-wealth-over-work-20260227-p5o666 I could originally read that article yesterday, but opening it now has the subscribers only block on it and turning javascript off doesn't unlock it. Maybe it only allows a free reading by one IP address once.

You forget Canavan has been involved directly in the govt ranks for a long time. Tony Abbott hired him when he was young when he was PM..Canavan knows his way around the political backrooms and is NO DILL.......people tend to forget this. He has a lot of experience the difference is he is a lot smarter than the rest of them. He just currently is not in a position to be the PM...but he is still young and who knows what can happen in the future...here is hoping that somehow he gets a path to the very top. I would much rather have him at the top than any of the current idiots in control

Murdoch Equals Fear and Hate in a fact free Package, There should be a Law against Printing falsehoods for Personal Benefit , Bring on a Functioning Factchecker and we get Better Democracy. Nev

Don't just go on ONE speech He Made, work out where He's coming from and Whose interests He serves. He's the Party's current leader but you really cannot LEAD from the Senate. Nev

Labor is not proposing taxing the family home, thats just bullshit pushback from the right wing media. Just a scare campaign to confuse the punters.

Threatened the Country where the Peace prize giving Body is located EVEN though that Country has No Authority on who Gets the Award. How Embarrassing. Nev

Easy to Promise anything, when you'll never have to actually Run the Show for ALL of us. Coal is the solution for MATT. Do your Homework more thoroughly, and don 't believe a word 2GB or SKY Utters. There's NO EVs in Canavan's Plan. Just Lot's of CO2. Nev

Gees l dunno. Our Govs that do get in have been destroying our country, selling their soul and us their people and our kids out for bloody yrs- both of them in one way or other. And what Albos done and is doing to our country now, man. This guy is so on point in so many huge ways whatever he is, God l wish he was in a party where he could become PM myself, and l'm a tree hugger. Trouble is, what Albo's doing , and what the others have also done, is so damn serious if l have to choose between climate and what's left of my country , right now l'd choose to save my country first.

Andddd, on an Easter Sunday. ! That's his address to the world and a people caught up in a war, on Easter Sunday. As well as swearing at them on his socials. Every other president usually does some Easter thing for the people on an Easter Sunday. But what does Chump do, he's a damn animal.

If you have the time watch the latest Press Club interview done with Matt Canavan it will be up on Youtube soon I think.......It was a cracker ! This guy would make a great Prime Minister. He is sensible and forward thinking and has some great ideas to launch this country forward. This should be made the Adrress to the Nation not like Mr Magoo's one

People like myself get caught up in the CGT trap if we sell. I've owned my place for 38 years, principal place of residence only, no business ever run on the property. I'm just an age pensioner with the arse out of my pants but I would still be up for a minimum of $50,000 tax, possibly quite a lot more if I sold. When people talk about scrapping the 50% discount if you've owned the property more than 12 months, they think it's all rich investors involved. They are largely ignorant of the fact a lot of non rich ordinary people get caught in the net as well. People in glass houses are good at throwing stones but they'd squeal if they were no longer eligible for the CGT exemption on their suburban block. My big tax crime is that my block is bigger than two hectares and I bought it after 20th. September 1985. If you have more than two hectares, with the pension, you can get an asset test exemption if you've lived continuously on the property as principle residence for twenty years. They knocked me back on the first application due to me giving up work to look after my sick, elderly father for a while. I stayed at his place with him and gave centrelink that address for correspondence regarding the carer's pension I received. Because of that period, they used the angle that I didn't live at my place for twenty continuous years. I ended up putting in a stat dec saying I still considered my place principle residence during that period and gave evidence such as power and phone still connected, mail still delivered there and stuff like that. They ended up granting me a full pension, so fingers crossed they don't change their mind in the future.

Threatening genocide is not the best way to win a Nobel peace prize.

He threatened to wipe out a civilisation. This is the guy who demanded the Nobel Peace Prize!

As it stands NOW the scene is a complete MESS. So Much damage that OIL supply will be a very Large ongoing issue EVEN if it stopped right Now. Nev

Keeping pace with inflation is not making a profit. It means not falling behind.

Same cynical comment from my late dad. He was on the big guns around there. He said the American warships arrived, pounded the island with heavy fire from a safe distance until there wasn't a palm tree standing, then ping off and send the Aussies in to "mop up". Then the Japanese would come out and the real combat started.

Firstly, TDS is certainly a thing to worry about. Observing the derangement of trump should be a warning to us all. Yeah I do know the intended meaning of TDS.... but the yanks were seldom good at irony. It would be clearer if they put the apostrophy after the middle word, but the yanks don't do proper grammar either. The positive side of watching 'Good Ole USA' going down it's own self made gurgler, is that we have the option of learning from it. The lesson goes way beyond "Don't put a raving nutcase in charge of the place!". Our leaders SHOULD be taking notes on how badly certain policies can turn out. Are they watching the cause and effect of eash fiasco in the american clown show? It should make it easier for our political observers to work out smarter ways to run our own country. Sadly (In my opinion) we are following too closely behind USA instead of steering clear of the biggest sinhle cause of government erosion. The rise of the oligarcs - the ones with obscene wealth. The ones who can and do buy and sell just about every politicion and policy with their small change. The ones who fund 'Super Pacs' etc. The politicians (not just their party leaders) do not sing to the tune of the majority of the populace. There is no point in saying 'Oh but there are some pollies with ethics', unless the majority have ethics, the political system is owned by the big players. So, my challenge to you is this..... what would you propose to change this ? Cos I have no effin idea.

I may be thick, but I genuinely don't get what you are saying. How does all humans being equal equate to being pro-Palestinian? Believing they are unfairly treated by the Israelis is one thing (whether that is true or not - I can no longer be arsed getting into that argument), but being pro-Palestinian because all humans are equal sort of ignores the horrible inequities in Palestinian controlled areas (Gaza and Ramallah) - as well as other Arabic or Islamic nations - I dunno, like Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi, Iran, Afghaistan, many ogf the other 'Stans, and the like. Unless killing gays because they are gay, or beating your wife legally and even being instructed on how to do it, legal honour killings, discrtimination against far east labourers, slavery, etc is treating everyone equally. You know - like in Israel whihc has the largest - because the only gay pride; where foreign workers are treated the same as local, where Palestinian citrizes have the same rights and one was even the previous deputy PM, and there have been Palesitnian cheif jidges of the Israeli high court. Where women are eqqual and marital rape, wife beating, etc is against the law. Where even a soldier will be held to account for killing a Palestinian terrorst after they have injured aoir killed other Israeli soldiers. Where before 7 October, Israel provided necessary medical care to Gazans and Ramallans despite there being lots of hospitals in those two areas - some hopefully withoput weapons cahces under them. Where Israel provided Gazan with the water supply (and still do) despite Hamas firing rockets at them almost daily. Where many Gazans used to work in Israel with the same rights and conditions as Israelis and could move about freely (they were justifiably searched oin their way into Israel because of the risk of them wearing bombs). Hang on.. Where is their vocal opposition to Russia that does commit war crimes on a daily basis, targetting civilian infrastructure? Where is their vocal oppostiion to the many wars and conflicts in the middle east that don't involve Israel? I can't recall much more than a scant reference to Iran, and even then it was more about the illegal Chump/Net war and not the 30,00+ civilians killed (although this could be because the newspapers and the ABC don;'t gibve them much coverage). Then, yeah. good on the Greens for sticking with their morals. Give them a clap. They're just being perfect and it's not anti-semitism at all. Shame though, because most of heir policies, if implemented properly, seem pretty good. Would I vote for them despite the above? Actually, probably, because thankfully in the incredibly unlikely event they got in, they cold probably block exports and imports to/from Israel. I don't think wither country would lose sleep over it. Given it is unlikely they would get in, the additional primnarly vote would hopefully send a message to the majors to lift their game in the other areas.

I don't agree with everything you have written, but the sentiment is spot on, IMHO.

I believe nothing will change in this country until it becomes a basket case like Argentina became. Then everyone has to swallow a very bitter pill to get back on track like their current hard line president has started a massive turnaround there. The gate has been left open for far too long and it currently cant be closed because of the mindset of our politicians who do not have any true life experience. 90% of the dicks in power are either lawyers or trade union rejects or stupid Green idealogs . Digging stuff up out of the ground then sending it overseas to be value added then we idiots buy it back at a much higher price. China for example. Trade is one thing but self flaggilation is another. This process has been going on so long now It is almost impossible to reverse it. Reset is the current term thrown around but it does seem to me that that is probably the only real solution. The horse has bolted for such a long time the process to catch the bastard and put it back in the paddock is nigh impossible now. The only solution is to start again but to do that pretty much everything has to be torn down and that is a very grim prospect. This is a very dim and dark view I know but it is possible if you can get the ones in charge to change their mindset but again how realistic is this.? We are one of the very few countries of the world that has every resource you could want to be self sufficient...the one problem is the money to do it. This is where we could get international investment to start these projects but not like it was in the 70's and 80's where multinationals raped out resources at ridiculous prices because they were not taxed properly or business deals were not setup properly as it should have been a profit sharing model not the way it was. The tax system needs to be different. Yes profit is key to any investor. So why not setup a system where you can get the money to actually rebuild our manufacturing and energy production for outside but do not tax the crap out of the investor companies. Let them keep a reasonable profit and not taxed stupidly. Lets face it the current tax system does not work as they are all offshore and dont pay tax here they just rip the max money out in profit and pay no real tax because of our stupid taxation system. So drop the tax and say of 50% of the profit goes to them to make it worth while for them to inject the huge amount of cash for the projects and the Australian private company keeps the other 50%. The private company then they do pay a nominal tax on their profit say 15%. If the partner is the government well they get to keep the 50% profit and use it to put back into the infrastructure of the country. Just throwing the idea out there...the ratios could be different but the current tax system is so broken it needs a totally different approach that will benefit our country yet makes the profitability for the overseas partner very viable. This is all a bit radical I know but we need major change and radical change is the only way to get something differnet happening because currently we are all swirling around the dunny bown about to go down through the S bend. I am no economist or genius but surely doing the same shit and nothing is getting better only worse so something has to change. You know every single person I talk to in my life says they never voted for Albo..well buggered if I know then how he got in. Labor has alway been a socialist organization..but something changed. The old Labor like the Hawke era were way different. This past 30 years or so the marxists somehow have taken control and the agenda seems to be "You will have nothing and you will be happy" oh and "you will eat bugs" because cows farting kill the ozone layer. The current Labor version only know how to spend money and they put it all on the aussie super credit card. Its not a endless pit but these idiots dont seem to see this. Someone will call in the debt somethime in the future. What ever happened to a fair wage for hard work...there are so many on some sort of welfare now that produce nothing except increase the countries debt. There is almost 1 million on some NDIS benefit....autism or some other issue. Once the parents or the family had to deal with the issue themselves now every tax paying person in the country has to be responsible. There are some of course that do require the proper support due to phyical disabilities and we should support them completely but there is so much fraud going on in this area it is beyond belief and of course its one of the reasons the country is going broke All this TDS I think is just a waste of everyones time. We need to be more focused on what happens here so we can take ourselves out of this global dependence, so another Trump in another country cant effect how we live our lives in the extent it is now. Self reliance in our own backyard needs to be our goal not this current situation we have now. I know its a bit of a rant I hasve been on here but there are many more things to think about and what we can do. The big problem is that list has now been made so big due to the stupid decisions of past governments on both sides. We need a clean out but we have been such a dumb population now I feel the balance scale has gone tone too far to the one side. We need to offload all that dead weight to get some sort of balance to get smart ideas and commonsense back into this country Mark

When the war finished they had a lot of Japanese held in pow type camps awaiting repatriation back to Japan. In a lot of them they didn't have allied soldiers guarding them, they were doing it themselves. One night my dad and his mate were returning back to camp from a local watering hole and walked past one of the camps. All hell broke loose, the sentry called the alarm and the camp commandant roused the whole camp of Japanese out of bed to form up on the parade ground. He got my dad and his mate who were full as a boot to inspect the troops. The old man said it was one of the craziest experiences he had over there, two private ranked Australians with the wobbly boot on walking up and down the Japanese ranks inspecting them. He told me they hammed it up a bit and did a fairly dodgy officer impersonation to give the commandant a bit of face.

It's been hanging over him for years. Kerry Stokes tried to assist him and I don't blame Kerry for that. We Train soldiers to Be effective killing Machines and expect them to still Be NORMAL. I see that as a quandary. What HE did was awful but WAR is not a Normal situation, A lot of returned Soldiers are Ruined by what they have seen and done. It used to be called Shellshock. The People who start the Wars are the REAL criminals. Nev

Ahh.. but he is the master of the art of the deal... In his own mind

This is the first time I have tried an AFR artivle for eons and I am sure my IP address has changed since I last accessed as I recently changed ISP. My guess is they allowed free use for a short period.

Can you provide some links to the articles? I haven't seen anything apart from that ANU bloke dreaming about it.

Specifically to get a bite from you Nev.

The original article I saw was either on the ABC or The Age website (when I go tot he Guardian, it usually only feeds me British based or, for global news, what it considers important or interesting for Brits. There was no mention of CGT for the primary residence, but there was mention on negative grearing being removed from all but a private investor's first investment property; It must have been The Age, as I doubt very much the ABC wouls pull an article for a reason other than it iwas plainly inaccurate. But here is what I found from teh ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-04/capital-gains-tax-changes-among-options-as-labor-weighs-housing/106306738 And it only mentions CGT discountsd being removed from investment properties. Which, IMHO, is the correct thing to do. Inherited properties that are then used by the beneficiaries to rent out (i.e. become an investment propety) should be required to have a surveyor's valuation at the commencement of them being advertised for rent so that the CGT clock starts tickign with an accurate assesment.. Or maybe ion this case, because of the emotional ties, maybe wait 12 - 24 months and if they sell in that period, then it is CGT free; after that the valuation has to be obtained and CGT has to be paid on a subsequent sale. Of course, this creates a perverse outcome on an intergenerational basis. Keep the original home in the family and pass it on to subsequent generations = no tax. Convert it to cash to invest in some other form of asset/wealth building investment, and you pat tax, and have less to invest and pass on. Would have to look into the stats of how many homes are passed onto multiple generations to work out the real impact. Be that as it may, it would be incredibly uunfair to CGT the primary property anyway. Not because of the fact it was already paid for by post tax dollars and insn;t an investment per se, but a place to live; but also, the deduction being inflation rate is not representative of the true inflation rate of a house. Unless you are moving into a care home of some sort, you are likely to be purchasing another property to live in. As house price inflation often skyrockets past the normal inflation rate and the price increase of houses is excluded from the inflation calculation, if you sold your house and had to pay CGT on it, you could not afford at least a similar standard of house - you would be going backward. And this would probably stall the housing market (except for those thast had to sell) and foprce prices up even further - no supply but a demand still will tend to do that. Labor, or Albo is not stupid.

Why' Call him "Each way Albo"? he's firm when he needs to be. Barking at the Moon Just Makes the Dog unpopular. Nev "

I doubt even each way Albo and co would be silly enough to levy CGT on the suburban home block. It would be political suicide. Most of the country would vote for whichever party vowed to reverse it. It would be like banning beer and television (some would say that would be a good thing).

Watching Sunrise this morning with closed captions. They referred to Shirvo (Matt Shirvington) as 'cherveau'.

Thay would be totally unfair. When you are in it for profit you have the Opportunity to write off all costs. That change should NOT operate retrospectively. Nev

But only when he holds all the cards

I am concerned about losing the CGT relief for primary home owners.

Houses that you Live in are Paid for with After tax Money and no deductions for anything, That Would be daylight robbery Inflation should be allowed for in ANY capital Gain.. Nev

. To be a POW of the Japanese was No Fun. My Flying instructor was in Changi. Nev . Nev

I'm sure the M-16 three shot burst setting was designed with US troops in mind, but I reckon a lot would have used auto a lot. Giving them an auto setting is a bit like giving a kid the keys to the lolly shop. When you see a lot of Vietnam footage of them firing, they seem to hugely misinterpret the concept of covering fire. Apparently they were a bit that way in WW2 as well, although they mostly had semi-autos there. My dad always used to say when he was up in the islands that they felt safer fighting the Japanese than they did being anywhere near the Americans.