Craig

So Alice writes, so what's it going to take?

How much more?

has to happen australia's affordability issues became an affordability crisis which in turn trickled down to become a first home buyer issue which is now a first home buyer crisis and now the country's rental issues have become a full-blown rental crisis none of what has been done is enough this is australia

Are we not better than this?

An opinion piece from a few days ago from Alice Stoltz.

And if you're celebrating a birthday today for July the 19th, you are sharing your birthday with Kristen Bell, actress, of course, from Veronica Mars.

She is turning 42 years young.

And Benedict Cumberbatch, he is on the birthday books, turning 45 years.

He has already done 91 films, and in 2007 he did a film called Atonement.

Great film, by the way, if you haven't seen it.

And he was relatively unknown at that point.

So in the last 15 years, he has never looked back.

Around Australia we go, checking on your weather.

And first we go to Sydney, expecting showers and a high today of 14.

Melbourne, cloudy periods, but the good news is mainly dry.

12 degrees is your forecast high.

Brisbane blue skies 21 and in Perth the sun is also out with a fine Tuesday and your top of 19 degrees.

Well we are looking at GST this morning which is a broad-based tax levied on most goods, services and other items sold or consumed in Australia.

And GST applies on the sale of certain types of property in certain circumstances and importantly there are a number of exemptions that apply in relation to the assessment of GST when purchasing property.

So let's talk through the steps of what you need to think about in this area.