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This is just so awful, boom, come on. As a Boomer myself, and one with absolutely no desire to own multiple rental properties ( or any other properties for that matter ), I am ashamed and embarrassed by the article ″ How Boomer landlords control the rental market ″ ( 1/5 ). What happened to Flower Power, the Summer of Love, the anti-culture, or by assisting other people? It’s all gone out the window. The screen of ambition is repulsive. If expense is your point why choose real property? particularly rented real property. Unfortunately, here in Australia we don’t ″do ″ compassion very well.
Many European nations have significant amounts of hire cover, but from what I understand, it isn’t as competitive and there is a greater level of stability and hire protection provided for tenants. There is a home in our village where the landlords are replaced every year and the fee goes away. This is not the best way to handle individuals.
It’s time for a dramatic shake-up of the rented sector.
South Morang, David Legat
How to take justice into play
The best way to increase the non-grandfathering time from one month to six years is by extending the non-discount period without grandfathering. So the 50 per cent CGT reduction may only qualify if a home is held for six years, no one. This would only have a negative affect on property feet, who buy, release, and sell components after a year for the 50 % cheap, and who outbid second home buyers at transactions. More components would be available for younger customers.
Interestingly, long-term investors do not suffer as a result of the sell-off, which would prevent a property sell-off. Rental property presence and book levels would thus not be compromised. The government may start receiving more taxes revenues from day one if there was no archives.
Stuart McArthur, Carlton North
Albanese is hesitant to offend people.
The decision by the Albanese authorities to walk slowly on removing bad gear on purchase houses and the good unwillingness to lower capital gains taxes on the sale of such houses is hardly surprising, if quite disappointing. This is in line with a government that is led by a timid prime minister who appears to be incredibly hesitant to offend anyone at the highest level of the financial scale. It represents a short-term social see taking no account of the long-term needs of the country.
There is no denying that this is a state that has embraced a Turnbull-like Liberal Party, a group that has since grown significantly to the straight.
Greg Bailey, St Andrews
THE Community
Trump’s tradition
Your correspondent ( Letters, 1/5 ) claims Donald Trump will not be well-liked in the past. Trump is obsessed with leaving a tradition, attaching his name to numerous institutions ranging from memorial complexes to a group of US Navy ships.
Did those activities have an impact on history when Trump is recalled? Those who disparage him had good reason to apply a wide range of insulting words in describing him. He can do no bad, according to the adherents of the MAGA.
In 20 years, when he is not near, how did qualified historians describe him in considered decisions?
I think there will be fewer positive comments about his presidency in the United States.
Bill Pimm, Mentone
Smart evaluation
Surely James Comey was comparing Donald Trump with Maxwell Smart ( ″Ex-FBI chief charged with threatening life of Trump after posting photo of seashells ″, 30/4 ).
Carlton North, Stephen Davies,
Cry me a river of tears
In describing Donald Trump’s Iran conflict as the most pointless conflict since the Crimean War of the 1850s, journalist Peter Hartcher quotes former Australian knowledge key Paul Dibb. One of the occurrences of that battle was the legendary Charge of the Lighting Brigade led by Lord Cardigan, who rode quietly at the head of his regiment along a long river with the army firing down on them. Soldiers basically closed ranks and moved ahead of their head as men were shot. When he reached the end of the valley, Lord Cardigan was at a loss as to what to do following as there had been no clear purpose for the march ( inform you of people? …
Cardigan then led his remaining troops back down the” Valley of Death” exposing them again to the rifle fire of the enemy.
I was struck by the fairness of Dibb’s contrast to what has transpired in Trump’s “excursion” because this is just one of several instances of callous incompetence and idiocy that have characterized the Crimean War.
The planet faces financial chaos, the Strait of Hormuz has become a ransom place for the delivery of fuel and the Iranians are far from defeated.
Donald Trump declares success in this regard. It makes me want to scream.
Camberwell, Jane Garvey
Professional method
It’s great to hear that Health Minister Mark Butler will soon be pursuing great professional fees. This is more about the medical costs they charge, and the proceed may also face a High Court problem. It will require a significant amount of time to apply. But a state that insists on promoting private provision of public services like NDIS and aged care may do well to consider that other part of the personal idea: competition. Within months, this government had fund community-based half billing specialists with a pay scale similar to those at public hospitals. It has already done identical with its Urgent Care Clinics. It might provide the state with funding to hire more paid medical professionals in public hospitals. The very scientists would not be affected but many other professionals may either lower their fees to contend or do some paid job in the clinics.
Dr. Tim Woodruff, president of the Richmond-based Doctors Reform Society,
Errors of youth
How many of us have since regretted failing something we did when we were younger? We’re well into our twenties before our brains have matured, so it’s easy to make mistakes when young.
We demand that a citizen of another country’s country of origin accept them back if they violate our laws. Likewise, we need to accept back the women and their children currently trying to survive in the basic and unhygienic Roj camp on the Iraqi-Syrian border ( ″ISIS-linked families ‘ plan halted as PM stands firm ″, 1/5 ).
Once they return, you should definitely thoroughly investigate whether they pose a threat to our society and take the necessary precautions.
What the prime minister’s mother would have said is irrelevant.
St Kilda East, Virginia Heller
The hanky defence
Hooray Michael Bachelard ( 1 / 5 ), please. A friend recently decried the use of hankies as being unhygienic. I want to remind her that they have been around for a long time and that I don’t know why they have caused so many infections. Instead I’ll send her a hanky enclosed in copies of all of today’s hanky letters, and Bachelard’s article. Aside from that, the hanky’s design on the shelf really speaks a lot about the customer.
Margaret Collings, Anglesea
No yearning for the past
My childhood experience of the hanky was a tad more traumatic than many Age letters correspondents.
When I was in my Catholic primary school in the 1960s, the Grade 2 teacher at my Catholic primary school mandated that each of her 64 students have a freshly ironed hanky on their desk at the start of the day.
Anyone who didn’t suffered a crack on the back of their hand with a blackboard ruler.
Do you believe there should be compassionate justice for a seven-your-old child?
Brendan Douglas, Alphington
Moment of Electric
Kevin Rudd is spot on in highlighting the crucial and precious opportunity to use the current threat to oil supply to pivot to our abundant affordable renewables (” Rudd hopes crisis drives green push“, 28/4 ).
Instead of investing billions in quid pro quo discounts on gas exports and emergency oil supplies, we should be using those billions to help everyone switch to electricity.
However, Rudd is also spot on when he uses the term “physical terror” to describe how terrified many mega-city suburban residents are in the face of the sudden petrol price rise.
This is the turning point for many people who are already at risk, in addition to mega-mortgages.
Free public transport might be a popular gimmick in those suburbs served by trams and trains but what about the fringe? No wonder servo drives-off occur.
Bernadette George, Mildura
The nang scourge
The article about nitrous oxide canisters, commonly known as nangs, ( ‴Nang ‘ cylinders dumped across city despite health, environment risks ″, 28/4 ), is a good wake-up call to the waste problem they create, but only touched on the damage they inflict on young people.
These dangerous canisters are packaged to appeal to teenagers and are offered in milk bars, online, and even home-deliverable. They are supposedly intended for the catering industry. They scramble the brains of children and lead them towards the belief that drugs are necessary to have an enjoyable time.
The Victorian government needs to examine recent legislation passed in Western Australia, which allows only registered catering companies and cooking schools to obtain the canisters, in order to combat this problem. We legislated to help stop inhaling from toxic paint canisters, now it’s time to act on the growing problem of these destructive nangs, which are just as damaging and accessible to children and teenagers.
Endeavour Hills, John Nolan
When a draw is a win
The best possible outcome is a draw as a football supporter who dislikes Collingwood and Hawthorn equally.
Peter Heffernan, Balaclava
changing partners
Now I understand – Melbourne did the boardroom equivalent of secretly finding a new partner before you flick the existing one.
Traralgon, Ian Macdonald
Hand it to him
My hanky serves as insurance in the event that I sneeze or cut myself, as well as a safe place to stash my keys and coins in my pocket.
PeterO’Brien, Newport
The military’s strategy of war
You’d think that after WWII and its millions of deaths, its immense destruction and the sheer pain and suffering that wars bring, we would have resolved to never go to war again, but instead we made, and keep making, bigger, more powerful weapons in service to war. However, they have indeed changed, as Warwick McFadyen recalls with Bob Dylan’s song Things Have Changed ( Faith, 26/4 ). In the 1960s and ‘ 70s we marched against war, whereas these days, it seems to me, that they are marching for more.
St Kilda East, Henry Herzog
AND A BROTHER THING
Politics
With apologies to Kenny Rogers and his song The Gambler, Victoria is “on a train bound for nowhere”, ( “PM ploughs billions into SRL despite inflation, war”, 1/5 ).
Vermont’s Ivan Glynn
Anthony Albanese’s provision of billions to prop up the dubious SRL rail project must be the most grotesque example of pork-barrelling to prop up a Labor mate in an election year.
Aspendale, Aspendale, Martin Newington
The “philanthropy” of Gina Rinehart in providing a plane for One Nation proves the adage that birds of a feather stick together.
Frankston, and Alan Inchley
I’m excited about Orangina Airways, but will it fly in a straight line or just continually turn hard right?
Tim Durbridge, Brunswick
The hanky
No, Michael Bachelard ( Opinion, 30 / 4). You are not singlehandedly bringing back the hanky. Hanky users have been around for a long time, including my daughter. Beats having tissues in the washing machine.
Hampton, Trish Young
Mum’s mantra to Dad as he left our house every morning of my ‘ 50s childhood,” Keys, tobacco, money, handkerchief”.
Megan Peniston-Bird, Kew
No need for a mobile phone memo-alert! Make a knot in the corner of your hanky!
Luise Mock, Tawonga South
Furthermore
Medical specialists have a captive market, and they don’t like being investigated for excessively high fees ( Doctors accuse Butler of playing “blame game” over specialists ‘ fees ), as Health Minister Mark Butler has done ( 1/5 ).
Phil Alexander, Eltham
The PM’s decision to implement the findings of the royal commission on antisemitism is encouraging. Now, how about the Murphy report? Gambling robs lives.
Christine Morris, Wyndham Vale
Finally
Donald Trump tries his best to reduce interest rates, but he still wants them to go up.
Malcolm McDonald, Burwood
