No need to wait for Indigenous change; New property tax would just be passed on; Who would notice such a small land tax?; No excuse for more coal, gas plants.
”, July 30-31) has an attractive simplicity that I paraphrase as: “Do you support altering the Constitution to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?“
It will be easy for naysayers to convince the public that it would be foolish to vote in favour of an undefined “Voice”.Fears also could be stoked that a powerful Voice initially established as an institution for a robust social purpose by the Albanese government could be diluted to an easily ignored pipsqueak by a future government. So why bother?
The proposal by the ANU to tax the wealthy, old property owners to pay off the national debt sounds wonderful until you realise that about 34 per cent of the population rent their homes, presumably from the old people the ANU wishes to tax. In addition to annual land tax, one of Breunig’s secondary options “including the principal residence in the pensions assets test”, should also be adopted.
And housing is definitely, by far, the single economic sector where there is a stupendous surfeit of extravagance and climate-damaging excess!
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