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The way Australia taxes housing is manifestly unfair

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

When politicians talk about tax and fairness, it’s easy for them to point out undeserved loopholes benefiting the wealthy, or multinational companies. But the elephant in the room is the difference between those who own and those who rent (or have recently bought and have huge mortgages) the house they live in.

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Will Habitat III defend the human right to the city?

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
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Luar Batang, one of Jakarta’s oldest waterfront squatter areas, is being flattened. Residents and their homes will be removed to free up flood-prone land and access to the city for tourists. Thousands of people will be evicted, disrupting if not destroying livelihoods, jobs, homes and long-established social networks.

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  1. Partnering with scientists boosts school students' and teachers' confidence in science
  2. PNG court decision forces Australia to act on Manus Island detainees
  3. Hidden housemates: the termites that eat our homes
  4. How the influence of trade unions on the Labor Party is overestimated
  5. Why wooing women is the way forward for trade unions
  6. Australia's gun laws save lives – but are we now going backwards?
  7. A cheat sheet for reading the federal budget
  8. The 'citizen budgets' of Africa make governments more transparent
  9. Great Barrier Reef bleaching stats are bad enough without media misreporting
  10. Disease evolution: our long history of fighting viruses
  11. From trauma to tourism and back again: Port Arthur's history of 'dark tourism'
  12. Up close and personal: virtual reality can be an instrument for social change
  13. Youth unemployment: local communities essential for helping young people find work
  14. Autism diagnostic standards fall short of the mark
  15. Labor unveils phased emissions trading scheme
  16. Death in offshore detention: predictable and preventable
  17. PNG asylum seeker judgment doesn't bind Australia: Dutton
  18. Unexplained lower back pain? It could be ankylosing spondylitis
  19. Submarines decision ultimately shows the merits of partisan debate on defence
  20. Explainer: the largest language spoken exclusively in Australia – Kriol
  21. How to make sure Australia's submarines pay for themselves
  22. French firm DCNS wins $50 billion submarine contract
  23. French company DCNS wins race to build Australia's next submarine fleet: experts respond
  24. New climate science centre doesn't make up for CSIRO cuts: experts
  25. Why the French submarine won the bid to replace the Collins-class
  26. Shorten can wedge Turnbull on climate
  27. The off-topic Conversation #90
  28. Experts are people too: why we should question the independence of consultants and think tanks
  29. Five budget myths that refuse to die
  30. Budget explainer: why is Australia's wage growth so sluggish?
  31. Buy, rent, or do both: the perversion of negative gearing
  32. Rising carbon dioxide is greening the Earth - but it's not all good news
  33. Here’s how green infrastructure can easily be added to the urban planning toolkit
  34. Ideas for Australia: To really reform the federation, you must build strong bipartisan support
  35. Ideas for Australia: Can our federalism feuds be fixed with a look to overseas?
  36. In Conversation: Mark Scott on his decade in charge of the ABC
  37. High fat and sugar diets stop us from feeling full
  38. Lost treasures and how to find them
  39. Why are we still searching for the Loch Ness monster?
  40. Data collected about student behaviour doesn't help improve teaching or learning
  41. Negative gearing windbacks could deliver $5.3bn a year: Grattan
  42. Deloitte projects $129 billion four-year cumulative deficit, proclaims a revenue problem
  43. Australia still doesn't see a cyber attack as the menace our allies fear
  44. On windmills and warships
  45. Will tourism transform the way Australians remember the Vietnam War?
  46. 'It makes one feel and realise what a dreadful thing war is' – a nurse's story
  47. Most people just park themselves, so how do we promote more healthy activity in public parks?
  48. Health Check: what to eat and drink when you have gastro
  49. Should regulation be aimed at saving the payday borrower from themselves?
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