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What Victoria’s rental reset changes for renters
Victoria rental rights 2026 bring 90-day rent notices, privacy limits and an end to no-fault evictions, but renters still need to act fast.
What disclosing a disability at work costs, and what it shouldn't
Disability disclosure at work still asks employees to price in stigma, even when Australian law says accommodations are the employer's job.
The super rise you notice late, and the payday shift behind it
The SG is now 12 per cent, but the more meaningful change may be 2026's payday-super rule, which makes retirement money show up in working life sooner and go missing less quietly.
What the Saturday auction sounded like after investors stepped back
At the first Saturday auctions after the budget tax reforms, the clearest shift was not yet in price but in who felt entitled to bid.
The budget just rewrote the super rulebook. Three changes I'd actually pay attention to
Three changes in Tuesday's budget don't just tweak the superannuation system. They shift the incentives hard enough to reshape your retirement balance — and none of them landed on the front pages.
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What Birthright gets right about my parents' house
Zoe Pepper's black comedy lands in cinemas nine days after the federal budget tries to fix the same problem.
Negative gearing reform meets the housing problem it can't solve alone
Treasury is modelling a two-property cap on negative gearing and a CGT discount cut for budget night, and Jim Chalmers has stopped pretending the status quo is acceptable. The reform is real, the housing-affordability problem is bigger than the reform, and that's the part nobody is saying out loud.
Mother's Day, $130,000, and the rule no one's fixing
A Melbourne nanny has worked full-time hours for two decades on a quarter of the super she should have. The rule behind that is the same one behind the wider motherhood penalty, and it isn't being fixed in time for next Mother's Day.
Perth's stamp duty fix: a $100,000 lift into a $900,000 market
WA's 2026-27 budget lifted the first home buyer stamp duty exemption to $600,000, a $100,000 jump worth up to $25,390 to the right buyer. In a market where Perth's median house already sits at $900,000, the question is who that right buyer actually is.
Rental cooperatives: the housing fix hiding in plain sight
A new rental cooperative in Brunswick is offering something the private market can't: income-capped rent, long-term leases, and neighbours who know each other's names. In Norway, 40 per cent of housing stock works this way. In Australia, it's less than one per cent. I went to find out why.
Two Hundred Dollars and a Long Press Conference: Reading Budget 2026
Treasury rang Friday and led with the punchline. The body of the briefing was the $200 offset. The thing under the briefing was a quiet acknowledgment it isn't moving the needle. What Albanese is and isn't announcing on Tuesday.
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