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Housing price stimulation only reinforces inequality


Housing price stimulation only reinforces inequality
February 19, 2021 — 12.05am
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The government’s insistence on doing everything possible to stimulate housing prices certainly bolsters its electoral chances but, in the process, it is accentuating and cementing inequality (“How to stop the house price madness”, February 18). Clearly, those homeowners who own their homes outright and have good income are able to help their children enter the housing market.
On the other side, an increasing proportion of low-income households are being locked out of homeownership and are being forced into becoming life-long private renters with all the attendant insecurity and anxiety. Alternatively, they are purchasing homes which they can ill-afford and spending a considerable proportion of their income on servicing the mortgage. According to the ABS, at least a million low-income households were in housing stress (spe ....

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Imagine having daughters locked up on an island


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February 18, 2021 12.05am
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Now that Scott Morrison has put on his father cap, could he extend compassion to the Sri Lankan family incarcerated on Christmas Island (“Plea to free family stuck in visa limbo”, February 17) and allow them to return to their life in Biloela?
Rhonda Seymour, Castle Hill
Following the Federal Court’s positive ruling in favour of the Tamil family’s visa application, it was distressing to read that the government is still not legally obliged to release the family from detention on Christmas Island. Unsurprisingly, the Home Affairs Department trotted out the usual weasel words: “At no time has any member of the family been found to be owed protection.” Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do ....

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Crikey Worm: Former staffer to reactivate police complaint


Linda Reynolds.
She also spoke of feeling pressure to keep her job when she asked police to suspend the investigation two days after
Scott Morrison called the 2019 election and, separately, when she accepted a request to relocate to WA.
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Following Health Minister
Greg Hunt’s announcement that the first 142,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have arrived in Australia ahead of an expected rollout next Monday, Nine papers report that Victoria and NSW and likely other states will initially focus on quarantine workers and then those in front-line health roles. ....

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Former staffer to reactivate police complaint


Former staffer to reactivate police complaint
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16/02/2021
POLICE COMPLAINT TO BE REACTIVATED
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Brittany Higgins plans to reactivate a police complaint about her alleged rape by a colleague in the ministerial wing of Parliament House in March 2019.
Higgins, who also plans to lodge a separate complaint with the finance department and is seeking CCTV footage from ACT police she says she was not able to access, yesterday spoke openly with
Linda Reynolds.
She also spoke of feeling pressure to keep her job when she asked police to suspend the investigation two days after
Scott Morrison called the 2019 election and, separately, when she accepted a request to relocate to WA. ....

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