#Budget 2026
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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.
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.
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.