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Peter Mares
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Contributing Editor, Inside Story
Melbourne
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travel, films tv shows, interviewingGames, personal and arts.REFERENCES available on request!
I don't do formal food or beverage critiques.
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By Peter Mares| Crikey Verified Looking at the major parties’ housing announcements, you could conclude that renters don’t vote. Instead, both sides are pitching hard to aspiring first-home buyers, telling them that a vote for Labor or the Coalition will pull the great Australian dream back within reach so they can start paying off their own mortgage instead of someone else’s.
By Peter Mares| Inside Story Verified At the Coalition’s campaign launch on Sunday, Peter Dutton pulled a rabbit out of his otherwise empty housing policy hat by promising to let first home buyers deduct mortgage interest from their income tax. In essence, this would extend negative gearing from property investors to new homeowners. Negative gearing allows landlords to offset interest payments on loans against tax liabilities, not just as a deduction from rental returns, but from all sources of income.
By Peter Mares| Crikey Verified Looking at the major parties’ housing announcements, you could conclude that renters don’t vote. Instead, both sides are pitching hard to aspiring first-home buyers, telling them that a vote for Labor or the Coalition will pull the great Australian dream back within reach so they can start paying off their own mortgage instead of someone else’s.
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Inside Story
National affairs and culture from leading Australian writers and researchers.
Melbourne, Australia