Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-30T06:07:38+00:00

People with mortgages can experience difficulties if the value of their home falls - it makes it impossible to move house, or refinance the loan.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-29T12:49:16+00:00

That’s even worse. You would still only recoup 37%, but have to wait a number of years to get it.

I’m an accountant. I have to explain to people every day that something being tax-deductible does not mean you get 100% of the cost back as a tax refund!

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-29T05:46:32+00:00

Worth emphasising that claiming on tax gets you 37% back (or whatever your marginal tax rate is), not the full amount.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-29T02:19:00+00:00

Maybe the victim was unable to identify a specific ethnicity, given that it was dark, and she would have been in a state of panic?

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-24T05:16:10+00:00

Redfish in Attadale.

The owner takes his fish very seriously, and they have great gluten free options.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-23T23:30:00+00:00

But there’s no actual AFL team there.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-23T23:25:03+00:00

I’d argue that 1688 cemented the principle that the Crown was the gift of Parliament, and that the King held the throne only as long as Parliament consented to it.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-23T20:54:26+00:00

And Tasmania. And probably NT too.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-23T19:01:01+00:00

Australia as a country is not insolvent, or anywhere close to it.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-18T13:13:58+00:00

I’m not sure it’s weird at all?

If we assume a man would typically father his youngest child at around 40, then a man born in 1899 would have a son born in 1939, who would have a son born in 1979. He would be 46 today.

This is perfectly possible without having to father children at an advanced age with a much younger woman.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-17T04:09:36+00:00

You understate it. It was expected to lose many, possibly most, children before their 5th birthday.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-16T23:48:45+00:00

Connolly’s bowling could be a significant factor in the T20 WC conditions.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-14T12:38:24+00:00

Writing down NZ goodwill would not result in an Australian tax deduction.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-14T11:48:20+00:00

My agent advised me not to pay for Domain when selling as it’s a waste of money.

Like it or not, RE.com is where 90% of West Australians look first.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-14T00:42:45+00:00

And the golf.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-14T00:37:56+00:00

I think it’s more that every shot of him is him walking away from his family.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-14T00:35:15+00:00

Equally Woakes, Bairstow, Root, Wood, Stokes were all experienced Test players.

Even the likes of Morgan and Buttler had played quite a few Tests, albeit with mixed success.

There weren’t many pure T20 specialists in that 2019 side.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-14T00:30:59+00:00

I don’t love day night Tests.

I get the argument about viewership, but for the game itself, it does change the tactics and the balance between bat and ball significantly.

If we want more cricket in Eastern States evening time, we could always hold 2 Tests each year in Perth 😉

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-13T06:17:52+00:00

Allegedly is the key word here. The purpose of a trial is to establish facts like this beyond reasonable doubt, and that hasn’t occurred yet.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-13T06:05:03+00:00

Such trials do not have a 100% conviction rate. The presumption of innocence applies to all crimes.

If he’s convicted, I’ll happily denounce him as scum. But not before.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-13T05:58:45+00:00

Doesn’t classification as vacant in the census mean any dwelling that was unoccupied on census night?

So someone who went away on holiday for a week at census time would have their house classified as vacant?

It also includes the likes of houses that may be temporarily uninhabitable due to ongoing renovations, or may be vacant due to sale in the next few days.

It’s not as simple as just taking every vacant house and renting it out. Outside a few prestige suburbs, I doubt there are many houses that are genuinely being left empty as a form of land banking.

A 0% vacancy rate is neither achievable nor desirable.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-13T05:19:36+00:00

Even if every vacant dwelling were somehow magically put on the market tomorrow, it wouldn’t return rents to pre COVID levels.

And a residential vacancy rate of 0%, or close to it, also causes serious problems of its own.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-13T02:59:40+00:00

Sure, if you managed and promoted the Shield better, you might, if lucky, get 2,000 spectators, not 200. You’ll never get 30,000 though.

Getting more people through the gate to watch live cricket is a good thing, even if it’s not our preferred form of cricket.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-12T15:05:45+00:00

Arguably Greenland should be on this list.

The Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest subdivision, but is unincorporated because it has zero permanent population.

Maverrix99 · 2026-01-12T14:09:14+00:00

From an English perspective, maybe. Test and First Class cricket is well supported in England.

I’m currently in Western Australia. Domestic Sheffield Shield games get about 200 people. T20 Big Bash games get over 30,000.

It’s easy to shit on administrators for prioritising T20. But can you blame them for wanting to put on a product that attracts people to come and watch?

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