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Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined
Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined
Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low
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Australia spends billions of dollars more on tax breaks for property investors than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined, according to research by the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss).
The analysis comes as new data from the Productivity Commission reveals the share of homes dedicated to social housing has dropped to a record low 3.6%, from 5.7% in the 1990s. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined
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There's a feeding frenzy over Anika Wells' expenses. But if we want women in parliament it needs to be more family-friendly | Sarah Martin
There's a feeding frenzy over Anika Wells' expenses. But if we want women in parliament it needs to be more family-friendly | Sarah Martin
The official justification of the allowance is to facilitate ‘the family life of the parliamentarian’. Yes, they are supported by the taxpayer to have one
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There’s nothing quite like the feeding frenzy in Canberra when there’s blood in the water.
Political journalists and every opposition staffer are currently scouring the records of the independent parliamentary expenses authority looking for a fresh angle to try to claim the scalp of the communications minister, Anika Wells. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
There's a feeding frenzy over Anika Wells' expenses. But if we want women in parliament it needs to be more family-friendly | Sarah Martin
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If you only have time for one podcast today, make it this one. It’s a brilliant explainer on class consciousness and what real community solidarity looks like. Everyday choices either build community or hand more power to the corporatists creating an Australia of haves and have-nots.
Bravo! 👏
Bravo! 👏
If you would like to hear my 2025 Dymphna Clark Lecture where I explore how Australia and neo liberalism have failed our schools (and everything else) you can listen here www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Jane Caro — why Australia is failing our school system - ABC listen
We often hear about "failing schools", but what if it is us, the Australian community, who are failing them? Public school advocate Jane Caro argues that Australia's pursuit of school choice, and the...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
If you only have time for one podcast today, make it this one. It’s a brilliant explainer on class consciousness and what real community solidarity looks like. Everyday choices either build community or hand more power to the corporatists creating an Australia of haves and have-nots.
Bravo! 👏
Bravo! 👏
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This is the correct question
There were cops present, watching & listening to the nazis as they broke laws around hate speech & inciting hate. Were they instructed not to intervene .... with bats, pepper spray & arrests .... like they do with climate change or anti genocide protesters??
What instructions were they given ??
What instructions were they given ??
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is the correct question
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Government trying to give police powers to recommend welfare cancellations, senate rebels on enviro laws and David Pocock pulls one over the government in the name of transparency - it is all happening.
thepoint.com.au
thepoint.com.au
The Point
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Government trying to give police powers to recommend welfare cancellations, senate rebels on enviro laws and David Pocock pulls one over the government in the name of transparency - it is all happening.
thepoint.com.au
thepoint.com.au
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Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
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De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."
October 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."
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My latest on the ever-deepening inequity in our school system. You know, the one we hate to talk about. In today’s The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21678/...
The segregation crisis in schools funding
In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
September 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My latest on the ever-deepening inequity in our school system. You know, the one we hate to talk about. In today’s The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21678/...
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Housing is a human right, not a business activity. It’s time for Australia's laws to reflect that | Kevin Bell
Housing is a human right, not a business activity. It’s time for Australia's laws to reflect that | Kevin Bell
The housing problem is fixable, but only through systemic change. That’s why I support a proposal to enshrine the right to housing in law
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Housing is a human right, but our laws do not reflect that. This failure has helped drive us into a housing disaster, where homes are treated as commodities rather than as the foundation of human dignity.
The housing system in Australia is failing because it is designed for profit, not people. It encourages us to treat housing as a business activity rather than as a means of meeting fundamental human needs. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Housing is a human right, not a business activity. It’s time for Australia's laws to reflect that | Kevin Bell
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Funnily enough, she's happy to attach herself to her husband's money when it suits
'John Roth & his wife Jillian Segal have bought their waterfront neighbour for $30,263,400.'
Now I'm going to censor all you plebeians helping out underprivileged Palestinians . . .
Gosh, will you look at my view
'John Roth & his wife Jillian Segal have bought their waterfront neighbour for $30,263,400.'
Now I'm going to censor all you plebeians helping out underprivileged Palestinians . . .
Gosh, will you look at my view
July 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Funnily enough, she's happy to attach herself to her husband's money when it suits
'John Roth & his wife Jillian Segal have bought their waterfront neighbour for $30,263,400.'
Now I'm going to censor all you plebeians helping out underprivileged Palestinians . . .
Gosh, will you look at my view
'John Roth & his wife Jillian Segal have bought their waterfront neighbour for $30,263,400.'
Now I'm going to censor all you plebeians helping out underprivileged Palestinians . . .
Gosh, will you look at my view
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Loved this poddie. Listened to their 1st episode last week not long after the Lattouf decision
What struck me was both Antoinette Lattouf & Jan Fran have been pushed out of the ABC by the manipulative Israel lobby
Two brilliant women, great minds - lost forever to Australia's national broadcaster
What struck me was both Antoinette Lattouf & Jan Fran have been pushed out of the ABC by the manipulative Israel lobby
Two brilliant women, great minds - lost forever to Australia's national broadcaster
Perhaps the government appointed anti-Semitism envoy Segal could start with monitoring her husband’s support of spinning media narratives before giving advice to ABC and SBS? Just an idea.
Listen to We Used To Be Journos wherever you get your podcasts.
You can watch it in full on YouTube.
Listen to We Used To Be Journos wherever you get your podcasts.
You can watch it in full on YouTube.
July 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Loved this poddie. Listened to their 1st episode last week not long after the Lattouf decision
What struck me was both Antoinette Lattouf & Jan Fran have been pushed out of the ABC by the manipulative Israel lobby
Two brilliant women, great minds - lost forever to Australia's national broadcaster
What struck me was both Antoinette Lattouf & Jan Fran have been pushed out of the ABC by the manipulative Israel lobby
Two brilliant women, great minds - lost forever to Australia's national broadcaster
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Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'Israel: silencing dissent everywhere'
Israel: silencing dissent everywhere - The Shot
The pro-Israel lobby isn’t designed to balance debate nor to enrich it – it is designed to silence it.
theshot.net.au
July 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'Israel: silencing dissent everywhere'
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Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic
Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic
When it comes to the horrors of genocide we say these words with an ironic frequency. How do we short-circuit the re-run of this pitiful, shameful cycle?
Today will be a hard day for Sydneysider Mirela Muratovic, a survivor of the only recognised genocide in Europe since the end of the second world war: Srebrenica.
During the 1990s Bosnian war Srebrenica was designated a United Nations-protected “safe area” – a label that came to mean nothing. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic
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In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
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A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
June 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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One of my #Gaza cartoons for @theshot.net.au
June 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
One of my #Gaza cartoons for @theshot.net.au
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It is indeed outrageous that families who could never afford to send their children to these palaces of luxury are subsidising them via their tax. We should not subsidise fee charging schools that exclude most children directly or indirectly. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Cruel joke’: tax concession drives donations to Australia’s richest private schools and must stop, critics argue
Eleven private schools received more than $3m from donors in 2023, topped by St Aloysius’ College in Sydney with $9.1m
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It is indeed outrageous that families who could never afford to send their children to these palaces of luxury are subsidising them via their tax. We should not subsidise fee charging schools that exclude most children directly or indirectly. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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There is still no baby formula allowed into Gaza. Israel is not only bombing and shooting a starving, exhausted civilian population, it’s banned baby formula. Babies under 6 months can only have breastmilk or formula. Their mothers are starving and have no milk. Milk. Must. Enter.
June 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
There is still no baby formula allowed into Gaza. Israel is not only bombing and shooting a starving, exhausted civilian population, it’s banned baby formula. Babies under 6 months can only have breastmilk or formula. Their mothers are starving and have no milk. Milk. Must. Enter.
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Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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At the end of this Instagrammed infanticide the ABC will be able to say it didn't know, it was distracted making 17 million pieces of content about a beef Wellington
June 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
At the end of this Instagrammed infanticide the ABC will be able to say it didn't know, it was distracted making 17 million pieces of content about a beef Wellington
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“Without accounting for land use, Australia’s emissions have decreased 3% since 2005, not 27%.
In 2024, Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions were “ 27% below 2005 levels”. That’s great news right?” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06....
In 2024, Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions were “ 27% below 2005 levels”. That’s great news right?” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06....
Australia’s latest emissions data shows a giant fossil fuel problem
Without accounting for land use, Australia’s emissions have only decreased 3% since 2005, not 27%.
johnmenadue.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“Without accounting for land use, Australia’s emissions have decreased 3% since 2005, not 27%.
In 2024, Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions were “ 27% below 2005 levels”. That’s great news right?” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06....
In 2024, Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions were “ 27% below 2005 levels”. That’s great news right?” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06....
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Australia sanctions two ‘extremist’ Israeli ministers for inciting violence against Palestinians
Australia sanctions two ‘extremist’ Israeli ministers for inciting violence against Palestinians
Foreign minister Penny Wong says ministers were proponents of ‘unlawful and violent Israeli settlement enterprise’
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Australia has joined the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Norway in placing financial sanctions and travel bans on two Israeli government ministers, over what Penny Wong described as “inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank”.
The Magnitsky-style sanctions on Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, were in response to serious human rights violations and abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank, including Israeli settlements considered illegal under international law, the governments said in a joint statement. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Australia sanctions two ‘extremist’ Israeli ministers for inciting violence against Palestinians
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Redundancies when there are no funding cuts. Outrageous. Thoughts with the people about to lose their jobs because yet another new boss wants to stamp their own mark on an organisation for the fourth time in eight years.
ABC confirms Q+A to be axed amid wider changes and scores of redundancies across the broadcaster
ABC confirms Q+A to be axed amid wider changes and scores of redundancies across the broadcaster
The political and current affairs discussion program is being cut, alongside the ABC’s Innovation Lab
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The ABC’s Q+A program has been cancelled after 18 years, the broadcaster has confirmed, amid wider changes that will result in scores of redundancies across the public broadcaster.
The round of changes will fund new programming at the ABC under reforms yet to be announced by the new managing director Hugh Marks. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Redundancies when there are no funding cuts. Outrageous. Thoughts with the people about to lose their jobs because yet another new boss wants to stamp their own mark on an organisation for the fourth time in eight years.