A Melbourne Cup interest rate rise was not what most Australians wanted to hear this week.
Money – in the form of taxes and interest rates – was on the minds of readers this week. Is the tax system biased against women? Is Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock – who increased interest rates for the first time in five months on Tuesday – the Grinch who stole Christmas? Here is a selection of their online comments and letters.I returned to work when my son was one year old. Financially we were no better off due to the childcare fees, but I did it to hold on to my job.
Building 30,000 new homes with 600,000 new immigrants coming in each year does not make mathematical sense. While some people enjoy traffic congestion, impossibility of finding a parking spot, overcrowded public transport etc, most people don’t.We need more stories like this so that it becomes the major issue at the ballot box next election – then our tax-grabbing, property-owning politicians might start to get it.