Senator Andrew Bragg
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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They have a deliberate design feature to cut supply.
They have 5% deposits, which are not means tested, and they have high migration levels.
I just think that's going to keep on pump-priming prices at the bottom end and
But overall, I mean, you might see prices come down, but I think it's not going to solve the problem in terms of having more owner-occupiers.
Well, I mean, I'm certainly not giving people financial advice.
But it would appear to me that it would make sense for people to have the most possible debt they can muster for their principal place of residence and then probably invest something through a super fund because the super funds, of course, have been carved out from the new capital gains tax on everything.
historically we've been an ambitious country and we've been a country that's loved the idea of living and let living.
And we've not been a country that is trying to cut down people who have been successful.
In fact, you know, if you think about Kerry Packer's statement to us in an inquiry 30 years ago where he said, well, I'm not going to give the government any more money because they don't do a very good job with it.
I mean, that's been an urban legend that people generally have agreed with and they haven't.
Mark Packer down for being successful.
I still think that's the Australian spirit.
But what's happened is the government now want to give us the world's highest in the OECD pretty much income tax pay-as-you-go system.
They want to give us the highest capital gain system.
And the budget is completely buggered and unfunded.
So they're having to fill these holes with these new taxes, but they're going to be punitive when it comes to wealth creation.
There's also a view, I think, inside the labour movement that people who do start-ups and small businesses...
don't deserve anything anyway because their sort of wet dream is that everyone will work for the public service.
Well, if people have no experience in creating new businesses or creating wealth, then how are they going to understand their own tax rules or their regulations or the impact of these things?
And the R&D tax offset's been very successful.
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