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The Australian Independent Media Network Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 16:51 Source

RMIT Media Release Debate around negative gearing reform and capital gains tax has heated up in the past few days. This morning, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the ABC he’s ruled out taking negative gearing reforms to election. RMIT’s Dr Liam Davies, an expert in social and affordable housing, can respond to the PM’s comments.…

The post RMIT expert responds to PM’s negative gearing comments appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 16:00 Source

It’s green across the board as Asian share markets ignore the mixed sessions overnight with Chinese stimulus helping lift all boats.  Australian shares have finally moved higher after being in doubt following the RBA’s inaction with the higher USD also helping. Euro is struggling to make headway while the Australian dollar has rebounded slightly to

The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 15:27 Source

Oh no, it wasn’t the government who asked for Treasury to look into the possibilities around changing the tax benefits of negative gearing and capital gains. It was actually David Pocock and Jacqui Lambie, but let’s not let the facts get in the way when there’s such good news on inflation… All right, you got…

The post It’s Not Just The Gearing That’s Negative!! appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Cheeseburger Gothic Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 15:14 Source

For a guy who spends a lot of money on Apple gear for my office, I’m also a guy who almost never updates his phone. My current fondle box is an old iPhone 11.

I mostly use it for reading stuff in news apps and on Substack and for listening to music, podcasts and audiobooks. I’ve recently been dictating into it, because the speech recognition in Microsoft’s iOS Word app is pretty good, and I like to walk around the office while I talk. Like everyone else, my photos app is full of sandwiches, pets and receipts.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 14:11 Source

By Denis Hay Description Explore how neoliberalism in Australia led to tradie shortage, changing training and employment. Learn how we can rebuild a skilled workforce. Introduction Australia is grappling with a severe shortage of skilled tradespeople – a crisis that is stalling industries, inflating project costs, and threatening the nation’s economic growth. Construction delays are…

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MacroBusiness Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 13:30 Source

Another Matt Barrie masterclass chock full of MB: An outright disaster.

The post Matt Barrie annihilates population ponzi Australia appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 13:00 Source

Back in May, Laura Tingle ruthlessly attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s announcement that a future Coalition government would modestly cut immigration. Tingle immediately played the racism card in an article claiming that “the opposition leader has opened the doors to migrants being blamed not just for housing shortages but for all these other problems, too”.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 12:30 Source

The Victorian government has repeatedly demonstrated that it cannot control the costs of its “Big Build” infrastructure projects. Consider the following projects whose costs have skyrocketed, adding to the state’s massive debt pile: The West Gate Tunnel project’s cost is expected to double from its initial $5 billion estimate. The $11 billion Metro Rail tunnel

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MacroBusiness Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 12:05 Source

Join us in this week’s podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen dives into SMSF investing and looks at the most common mistakes that investors make. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment Officer at the Macrobusiness Fund, which is powered

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MacroBusiness Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 12:00 Source

We know Albo is an inveterate economic liar. He can barely open his mouth without referring to some fantasy economy in his head. Today he gives inflation the Albo makeover: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it’s not correct that headline monthly inflation has temporarily dropped to a three-year low of 2.7 per cent in August from

The post Now Albo lies about inflation appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 11:30 Source

A history lesson is on order: In October 2000, Daniel Scotto, the most renowned utility analyst on Wall Street, suspended his ratings on all energy companies conducting business in California because of the possibility that the companies would not receive full and adequate compensation for the deferred energy accounts used as the basis for the California

The post Dutton’s gas plan is INSANE appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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