Dale Reardon@sbwrightpoet.bsky.social Even grandfathering provisions to protect all current people so only new people affected eg with negative gearing people doiing it currently are exempt from changes. Never seen that with disability supports! #NDIS #AusPol
Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️⚧️♿
Independent Media Australia.Demagogues, despots and the rise of ‘phantom democracies’ https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/demagogues-despots-and-the-rise-of-phantom-democracies/ #Auspol
Mojo ♻️@augustusbrown @hailey
That’s not a broken promise? Mate, this was the gold standard of broken promises.
“No cuts to education.”
“No cuts to health.”
“No cuts to the ABC or SBS.”
“No changes to pensions.”
Then came the budget chainsaw.
Funny how Murdoch media suddenly discovers outrage over a tiny negative gearing tweak, but barely blinked when Tony Abbott torched half his 2013 promises. 🤔
Pat Hudson Cartoons
Mike (VK1OMG) 🏴☠️Post budget polls
Resolve/Fairfax:
ALP 29%
ON 24
Coalition 23
Greens 12
Newspoll/the Aus:
ALP 31%
ON 27
Coalition 20
Greens 12
Augustus Brown 🌈Push poll:
"Labor ruled out changing the two housing taxes before the 2025 election. Some argue that breaking promises like this is damaging to democracy and dishonest, whereas others say circumstances have changed and the housing crisis warrants the changes. Has this broken promise changed your views of Labor or not?"
How to ask without pushing:
"Do you support, oppose, or have no opinion on the proposed changes to housing taxes?"
No paywall: https://archive.md/PwDyo
ApaulDBlatantly deceiving people
#auspol #australia #politics
“Yemeni has said in social media videos that the entities each tapped into “different voting blocs” on the left but would ultimately direct their preferences “to One Nation and other conservatives”.
“We’ve got Save the Environment harvesting the climate vote. We’ve got Free Palestine targeting the hate vote and now Muslim Votes Matter to capture this growing migrant group that’s been cynically mobilised to vote against us,” he said in last week’s video.”
Imogen Negative gearing myth BUSTED
The government is finally phasing out this rort, and landlords are crying "rents will skyrocket!" like they did in the 80s.
But the data says otherwise:
Last time we removed neg gearing (1985-87), rent hikes varied wildly by city — local conditions mattered, not the tax change.
Treasury & CBA both say: impact on rents = $2/week in a decade.
Investor demand collapsed 2017-2019 (banking royal commission). Rents grew just 1.2% per year.
Existing investors are grandfathered. New builds still get concessions.
The "sacred cow" was always about subsidising wealth extraction, not housing supply.
