Tom Swann

Rents will surge if CGT discount goes, warns REIA Ahead of a Senate inquiry into the capital gains tax discount on investment properties, the residential real estate industry warns against change.

Such nonsense. Rents are set by renter ability and willingness to pay, not by investor costs/returns after tax. What will go up is the rate of investor sales to owner occupants. And that's a good thing.

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I love that Google knows what kind of underwear you have on right now and what you are planning to do for the next few months but can still now when it comes to phone AI assistant think I speak a language I never have

Australian governments stop subsidising gas projects challenge

After revealing penalties on PwC inc a Ban after their Global Tax Scandal - never eventuated - Australia Institute’s Rod Campbell pushes for new legislation so consequences can proceed
“There is zero consequence for any economist who essentially lies for their client.”💥 #auspol

The year is 2026 - climate impacts are reaping damage across our country.

The South Australian government meanwhile is striking new 200PJ off take agreements with the gas industry.

EPBC reforms a ‘net positive’ for oil and gas, according to Department Environmental reforms rushed through parliament at the end of last year in a deal between Labor and the Greens were welcomed as a “net positive for the oil and gas sector,” according to a senior gover...

"EPBC reforms a ‘net positive’ for oil and gas, according to Department" @roycerk2.bsky.social
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In general, musicians and artists probably just should not write about their work. It's almost always atrocious prose. Their PR people are rarely much better.

That's three popular games

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Canberra city planning is like, there is a farm with cows in the outskirts of the inner suburbs, therefore we need to have massive utes driving everywhere through all city areas, but one half arsed transit project will cost 6 bazillion and be finished after the climate apocalypse.

Story about lung cancer does not mention tobacco.

Again.

More than a quarter off isn't it?
I looked into it when you mentioned, looks like a great option

Cheap

How did you get the discount?

Get on time of use tariffs.

Move loads to the sunshine. Esp hot water, cleaning appliances

Get a battery to benefit from negative midday pricing

EV will also benefit from this.

There's so much solar without enough storage ATM that wholesale prices are often negative midday. Ie it costs utilities to take the power.

This is an opportunity.

The mayor literally invited her

solar farms in china

The scale of #solar farms in China is mindblowing ... and they are planning to double it

#electrostate
HT @carbonbrief.org
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

A nuclear power industry would be almost a condition on that sort of time frame

Where generally means vs other places, sure. Yes. Vs our unearned advantages, and what we could be...

We tend to think of batteries as the ones in our phones. But the real shift is happening at grid scale.

Utility-scale “mega batteries” now have hundreds of millions of times the capacity of a smartphone battery.

Costs are down ~40% since 2024, and capacity in 2024 was 12x higher than in 2020.

Also, they're wrong on Norway, which has both substantial govt ownership, AND a massive tax on privately owned oil and gas.

Loving this argument for the partial nationalisation of the gas industry to increase govt revenues from gas .... from... the gas lobby!

Migrants from Gaza and Somalia among those to be banned from Australia under unreleased Liberal plan The hardline immigration policy was designed before Sussan Ley was ousted as party leader on Friday

Lebanon, Palestine & Philippines among prohibited countries under draft coalition plan. Lebanese Australians have played a significant role in post WW2 rebuild. Philippines is 5th on migration ladder currently and is a crucial feature of health workforce. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

a chart showing Australia's cars shifting towards uts adnd subs

Another v v good piece of analysis from @onlyfacts.io here - showing how the shift to uts and SUVs in Australia is a major component of rising transport emissions

Remarkable how unassailable this deadly trend is, in Aus

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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

#BREAKING 🚨 Independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe has confirmed she will recontest Farrer at the upcoming by-election, setting up a possible five-cornered contest following the resignation of Sussan Ley

Milthorpe received 43.7% of the two-candidate-preferred vote in 2025

"The LNP were effectively giving Queensland's coal to Adani for free."

After the LNP abandoned a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, it looks pretty dodgy that the data shows they received over half a million dollars in donations from Adani.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

In Blow to Starmer, U.K. Ban on Pro-Palestinian Group Is Ruled Unlawful

“The High Court said the ban on Palestine Action as a terrorist group breached free speech rights and was disproportionate. The government said it would appeal.”

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