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May 22
A lot of Australians aren’t expecting to become rich.
They just want to feel like working hard, saving money and planning ahead still means something.
That’s why budgets hit differently now.
People can handle pressure.
What wears them down is feeling like the rules keep changing while everyday life gets harder anyway.
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Jun 13
Whatever your view of One Nation, nearly 57,000 Australians voluntarily donating an average of around $60 is a remarkable signal.
The story was never the money.
The story is how many people felt strongly enough to reach for their wallet.
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Jun 9
For years voters who left the major parties were treated like they'd eventually come back.
This suggests parts of the Coalition no longer believe that.
That's the real story.afr.com/politics/federal/ton…
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Jun 2
Funny how there's never a shortage of money for the next government program.
The people who wore the uniform always seem to be told to wait.
We've asked our Defence Force veterans to put their life on the line for this country, now the government wants to cap the amount of healthcare they receive in return.
While NDIS fraudsters are running out of control, the government is cutting nearly a billion dollars in healthcare funding from our veterans.
This is Labor's Budget.
Senate Estimates June 2026.
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Jun 2
Most technological revolutions look obvious in hindsight.
Most investment manias do too.
I’m starting to think this isn’t a bubble and we’re just living in a modern day Industrial Revolution.
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May 29
Either tax settings influence investment decisions or they don't.
If they don't, why change them?
May 28
Treasury Secretary Jenny Wilkinson says changes to favourable capital gains tax treatment don’t influence investment decisions beyond dealing with inflation.
Read more: bit.ly/4adhgLY
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May 28
The goal should be helping more Australians build wealth, not arguing about who already has it.
May 28
Opinion: The aim of economic policy is to raise everyone’s living standards, not conduct some sort of Marxian class war that pits one group against another. Read more: bit.ly/4fec4eq
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May 28
One thing missing from this debate is how many self-funded retirees structured their lives around modest trust income specifically to avoid relying on other income before super access.
They planned around progressive tax brackets and tax-free thresholds like everyone else.
They’re not all sitting on yachts in Mosman.
May 27
Labor’s discretionary trust changes won’t make housing cheaper.
They won’t increase supply, reduce immigration or cut construction costs.
What they will do is take 30% from families and 30% from family members paying HECS & saving for house deposits.
#auspol #Budget2026
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May 28
A lot of Australian policy quietly assumes asset prices will keep rising forever.
That feels like a very dangerous assumption to build an entire tax base around.
livewiremarkets.com/wires/en…
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May 28
Australia keeps saying it wants more productive investment while making the payoff from productive risk less attractive than owning property and harvesting yield.
Then everyone wonders why the country keeps financially behaving like a landlord.
afr.com/policy/economy/the-s…
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May 26
This is where the policy starts getting genuinely messy.
If the structure pushes ordinary investors away from direct ownership and toward managed structures just for tax efficiency, people will adapt accordingly.
Capital always moves.
The question is whether the system is rewarding productive behaviour or just rewarding whoever can navigate complexity best.
May 25
Owning stocks has been a backbone of building wealth, but an issue with Labor’s capital gains tax changes cloud its future. Budget 2026: bit.ly/4nPPE5x
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May 25
The government thought they were targeting the “rich rich.”
What they may have actually hit is the “wrong rich” - the self-funded, small-business, middle-Australia layer that spent decades trying to build assets slowly enough to stay independent of government.
In Canberra, a discretionary trust sounds like a Cayman Islands loophole.
In much of Australia it’s:
a tradie business,
a farm,
a husband-and-wife consultancy,
a medical practice,
or a family trying to manage succession and asset protection.
The genuine surprise from parts of the political class probably reveals how disconnected modern policymaking has become from how ordinary Australian enterprise is actually structured.
theage.com.au/money/saving/w…
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May 25
The bigger issue might end up being behavioural, not just fiscal.
People pause investment when they stop trusting the rules won’t keep changing underneath them.
May 24
Have just signed the petition against the capital gains tax changes.
If you believe, like I do, that this is aspiration killing overreach by the Federal Government then please do likewise.
Don't muck around, because they intend to ram this through Parliament.
wilsonassetmanagement.com.au…
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May 22
The frustrating part isn’t even the tax.
It’s watching years of tightening trust rules, compliance crackdowns and ATO scrutiny… then still hearing ordinary professionals and family businesses talked about like the system is some free-for-all.
At some point the gap between the political narrative and reality just starts sounding ridiculous.
afr.com/politics/federal/ato…
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May 19
You can tell a lot about a government by the things it decides are “too expensive”.
Not infrastructure blowouts.
Not consultants.
Not endless new bureaucracy.
But helping the parents of a fallen VC recipient attend events honouring their son.
May 19
#BREAKING Anthony Albanese has stunningly stopped the allowance to a deceased Victoria Cross recipient, who was killed in action fighting for this country in Afghanistan, parents who attend events in his honour.
Cameron Baird, 32, was killed in act of bravery that won him the Victoria Cross but cost him his life on the battlefield of Afghanistan in 2013.
Since then, honouring their son, his legacy and his sacrifice has been a devoted duty for Doug and Kay Baird.
“It’s extremely important that we represent Cameron because he can no longer speak for himself”
Living Victoria Cross recipients are entitled to a $5,696 to cover travel costs to VC events.
The Bairds were awarded half of that allowance to attend events in their son’s honour but Anthony Albanese has now put a stop to that.
Doug Baird said he was “shocked” and in “disbelief” at the ruling.
The Albanese Government has said the decision “will not be overturned”
With the $300 million that Albo spent on the prosecution of Ben Roberts Smith and now the snubbing of Cameron Bairds family.
Albanese’s disdain for our servicemen and woman is clear.
He hates us.
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May 17
Feels like a lot of Australians are becoming more cautious lately.
Not just spending less.
Hesitating more.
Delaying decisions.
Second guessing big commitments.
Like people no longer fully trust where the country is heading.
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May 16
A lot of Australians don’t even expect to get ahead anymore.
They just want to feel like the rules are stable enough that effort, planning and sacrifice still mean something long term.
That confidence feels weaker than it used to.
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May 15
One of the biggest political shifts happening right now is that governments are finally being forced to acknowledge physical and economic limits again.
Housing capacity.
Infrastructure strain.
Energy reliability.
Who welfare systems are actually designed for.
A lot of ordinary Australians have felt these pressures building for years.
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