Jasin wrote on Aug 14^th, 2026 at 4:50pm:


Regrettably for you Jasin, Mr Albanese and Labor will comfortably win the next election.    He is the most popular of the Leaders of the other parties, Labor is well ahead in the polls and the Liberals contune to slide into insignificance, along with the Nats.    One Neuron will continue to be a problem for a while, but will have to align with someone to have an effect.   I think they will increase their seats as well.   The BIG LIE that people are ventilating over regarding negative gearing has lost most of it’s momentum as people realise the only ones complaining are Cheese Grater Dave Hughes and a few Millionaires.    Sorry Jasin - no soup for you (love that Seinfield ep)

Let's remember. The Left FIRE the likes of Biden, Starmer and even Jacinta Allen to ROB the citizens of the satisfaction of hanging them instead come election.

The same will be done with the Anus. So he can call it retirement.

Oh no. Did he really kiss the Clown?
Yuck!

Frank wrote Yesterday at 2:23pm:


Frank, if this departure from policy had been like Shorten did, before an election - then Albanese would lose.   Abbott lied, Turnbull lied, Morrison lied.  The only people who are NOW whining about Albanese lying are the crater faced $10 Mil property owner Dave Hughes and a few Millionaires.    As the true impact of negative gearing hits home, less and less people seem concerned about it.  By the end of this year, it will be done and dusted, forgotten and gone.   The faux paus with Kylie Minoge and melons is passing and Albanese is the preferred PM and increasing in popularity.

Vic wrote Yesterday at 3:03pm:




The market has already given its answer. The banks report that loan applications have fallen sharply since the budget. Investors have pulled back hardest, first home buyers not far behind. Prices are falling in Sydney and Melbourne. The Governor of the Reserve Bank has conceded that the market has softened faster than the Bank expected, and her chief economist has said plainly that the Bank will not be riding to the rescue.
Look at where the money has gone, because it tells you everything. Despite a slump, investors are still buying new houses, which keep the tax break. They have all but stopped buying established ones, which do not. That is not a market adjusting to a small change. That is a market walking away.
Of the two changes, it is the end of negative gearing that does the damage. Paul Keating tried the same thing once before. He restored it twenty-six months later.
Which brings us to the promise the whole scheme now rests upon.
We are asked to believe that new houses will keep negative gearing and the discount for good. This one carve-out, we are told, is permanent. Consider what it is. It is the last shelter left standing. It is therefore the obvious thing to knock down when the money runs short.
It is defended by a shrinking band of investors, since every grandfathered owner who sells takes his protection with him. And it is guaranteed by the same men who guaranteed the thing it replaced, in the same words, from the same seat in the same chamber. I would not buy a house on the strength of it. Judging by their behaviour, nor will anybody else.

There is a further unfairness, and it runs the opposite way to the rhetoric. A landlord who owns several properties can still set his losses against the rent from the others. He carries on much as before. A landlord who owns one has nothing to set them against. He must wait, perhaps for decades, until he sells. Large trusts and superannuation funds escape the changes entirely. A reform sold as levelling the ground for first home buyers has quietly levelled it inside the investor class as well, in favour of those who already have most.
And where prices are stopped from falling, the cost lands on tenants. Not two dollars a week.
Meanwhile, the fifty thousand keep paying. Interest rates have risen three times. Their arrears are running at nearly double the rate of other borrowers. In this country a mortgage follows you. A borrower who owes more than his house is worth cannot post the keys back to the bank and walk away. He goes on paying, year after year, for something worth less than he paid.
Behind him stands the taxpayer, who guaranteed the loan, on a market the Commonwealth then set out to bring down.
The bottom line is simple. The market has to clear. It can only do so through lower prices or higher rents, and probably through both. Which of the two does more of the work is a question about supply, and about politics. But it will be one or the other. The fifty thousand are exposed to the first. Every renter in the country is exposed to the second. There is no third way out.
They were told, fifty times, that there would be no need for one.


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The professors are not suffering personally. But you don't have to be suffering from a fatal disease to be a profesor of medicine. The same way you do not have to personally suffer from government idiocies to be able to point out such idiocies.

Albo survived the last election against the odds, largely thanks to the even greater ineptitude of the Coalistion over the last 10+ years. If he survives again it will be for the same reason, not because he or his band merits it.

UnSubRocky wrote Yesterday at 3:43pm:



I hope Albo loses his seat like Howard did.

Vic wrote Yesterday at 4:24pm:

So it's the devil we know versus the devil we also know.

Which is to say, the country is buggered either way.  Not acciddntally, the same non-choice is on offer across the West - no matter who you elect, your country will be buggered.