starkebn posted:

To many pollies have too much skin in the housing investment game to see these corrupt fucks change negative gearing

Solemn Sloth posted:

Removing negative gearing would not lower house prices but also simultaneously crash the housing market

Umberto Eco posted:

The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

gay picnic defence posted:

anyone have the stats on the number of jobs vacancies for each unemployed person in the country? I'd like to school someone who thinks it is just a case of lazy millennials refusing to work

Anidav posted:

Oh man. I LOVE Coopers Extra Stout

Bogan King posted:

This is 2014 but the point still stands.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Holy poo poo libs are still defending the preference deal.

JBP posted:

Wait what's wrong with Cooper's? They support a religious thing?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/michaelkoziol/status/841081697898717184

bowmore posted:

Why is this news?

cohsae posted:

Can we go back to Scott Morrison suggesting that moving to Tamworth constitutes an improvement in quality of life?
Like, compared to what?

Brown Paper Bag posted:

Lol. Gotta love newspaper slapfights https://thewest.com.au/politics/state-election-2017/national-newspaper-out-of-touch-with-wa-ng-b88412734z

Don Dongington posted:

The West really isn't much better than the Australian. They're a little less overtly racist but their owner is still the single biggest Liberal donor in the country, and it sure does show.

cohsae posted:

Can we go back to Scott Morrison suggesting that moving to Tamworth constitutes an improvement in quality of life?
Like, compared to what?

Cartoon posted:

Surprised his example wasn't Armidale.

Mr Chips posted:

They both seem to be wildly out of touch with the bulk of the populace and run their own weird little campaigns (eg 18C for the Australian, shark culling for the West Australian)

Bogan King posted:

Doctor Spaceman posted:

The cap gains discount is the main driver of the whole problem and is a perfectly sensible thing to reduce or eliminate. I don't know why people are trying to downplay it, outside of thoroughly reasonable skepticism that they'd do it.

NPR Journalizard posted:

I would also enjoy it if they changed negative gearing so that the discount only applies to the income stream that generated the loss. So you cant go "Im losing $10k on my mortgage, time to apply that to my salary" but you can go "im losing $10k on my mortgage, I can use that to offset repairs to the property"

NPR Journalizard posted:

I would also enjoy it if they changed negative gearing so that the discount only applies to the income stream that generated the loss. So you cant go "Im losing $10k on my mortgage, time to apply that to my salary" but you can go "im losing $10k on my mortgage, I can use that to offset repairs to the property"

Sydney Morning Homosexual posted:

enior public servants from the Department of Human Services have told a Senate Estimates Committee that smartphone apps were adding to the phone call headaches with clients using technology to hit the lines with hundreds of calls.

The number of calls blocked, those not allowed into the queuing system when it is handling large volumes, has grown from 13 million in 2013-2014, to more than 22 million in 2014-2015.

The agency and its parent department came under sustained criticism this year after an National Audit Office report found nearly a quarter of the 57 million phone calls made to Centrelink last year went unanswered and that Australians spent 143 years waiting in vain to speak to Centrelink in 2013-2014, before simply hanging up, the auditors calculated.

Under questioning from Greens Senator Rachel Siewert at a late-night hearing on Thursday, senior DHS official Grant Tidswell said the decision on how many calls to block was a trade-off between the demand for service and the department's ability to provide it.

"It's always a trade-off…trying to manage the workload and demand and the challenge between demand and supply, but in previous years we've had far, far higher numbers, well over 30 million," the public servant told the committee.

But it was the emerging "redial" app technology that was really adding to DHS's well-documented telephone woes, Mr Tidswell said.

"Some people have got an application that they can get on their smartphone and it'll just keep pinging and pinging and pinging, so some people use it," he said.

"Some people use it to get concert tickets and win prizes and we're getting people upwards of 800 to 1000 times at that time so we are battling new technology with people doing that at peak demand times.

Bogan King posted:

Calling it now, the FIRST person to have this law used on them if it is passed will be in a burka and the racist shitbag of a cop will try to justify it using this law.

quote:

The new laws will also give police specific powers to order people to remove a face mask.

"It will be an offence to not comply," Mr Pakula said.

"The Government believes it's important to create a powerful disincentive for people to turn up at these types of public events with face coverings on.

"It will be clear in the legislation that we're only talking about face coverings where the police believe you're wearing it for the purpose of concealing your identity, or for the purpose of protecting yourself against the impact of capsicum spray and the like."

quote:

You can't claim a loss for a business that is little more than a hobby or lifestyle choice. Even if it has business-like characteristics, if it is unlikely to ever make a profit and doesn't have a significant commercial purpose or character, you can't offset the loss against your other income. In this case, you can defer the loss until you make a profit from the business. This applies whether your business loss from an Australian or a foreign source.

You can only claim losses from genuine business activities. You can't offset losses from hobbies or investments.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/spagnolojoe/status/840782783928664064

Noice

Cartoon posted:

RE- Negative gearing

Just applying the standard ATO "non-commercial loss" provisions:

https://www.ato.gov.au/business/non-commercial-losses/

Seems to already rule out negative gearing.

Bogan King posted:

Centrelink can't handle demand for service so are cutting people off for using tools to help them get in contact with the service.

This is not a user error here you fucksticks, it's your inability to manage the service. The way this is run should be a massive black mark on the CV of anyone involved, your career should be tainted by it and that stink should follow you until the end of days.

quote:

She said since the incident James has suffered "intense social criticism", threats to his own safety and had lost his job because his employer could not guarantee his safety.

James was fined $3,500 and his request for a spent conviction was denied.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/spagnolojoe/status/840782783928664064

Noice