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The cross bench senators are pushing the Labor government to implement changes to negative gearing and to reduce investment property tax concessions. Ms Lambie and Mr Pocock said their proposed changes could net up to $60bn over a decade that can be spent on social and affordable housing. Speaking to ABC News on Tuesday, Ms Lambie and Mr Pocock said they requested the Parliamentary Budget Office to examine five possible changes to capital tax concessions and negative gearing. 'We need to start making sensible changes,' Mr Pocock said.

The troubling state of the housing market has home-building industry groups, social welfare advocates and federal independents crying out for more action before the May 14 budget.

Paid parental leave will rise gradually from 20 weeks to a maximum of 26 by mid-2026.

During the last election in 2022, the Australian Labor Party unveiled the plan, which would make annual, sick, and long service leave 'portable.' The focus of the study is on people who work in 'insecure' jobs and are unlikely to accumulate entitlements, such as casuals, contractors, and those in the gig economy. Incolink, Australia's biggest union-backed worker entitlement scheme, is pushing for employees to shift their leave from one job to another.

Bosses are chastised over the Albanese government's 'right to disintegrate' rules in new workplace legislation, which could result in manager fines for calling employees out of hours to do unpaid labor. Following Senate crossbencher David Pocock's support for the new legislation, the provisions were included in the government's 'Closing Loopholes' Bill in order to get the Greens' approval and so will be passed by parliament this week. Andrew McKellar, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Chief, called the new regulations "ridiculous" and "a triumph of stupidity over common sense," arguing that after-hours contact should be left to be determined by employers and employees. Embolden Lord Mayor Persuader and potential state Liberal nominee Basil Zempilas contributed to the debate by tweeting (inset) that the latest legislation would not be able to 'drive our country forward.'

The increase of Australia's federal parliament to 200 MPs, up from the previous 151, is a step toward the acceptance of a controversial new plan. More MPs and senators are needed to ensure that the electoral system is made fairer for every Australian, according to the study committee, which was made up of current Labor, Greens, and independents.

After winning the battle to reclaim Marise Payne's (pictured right) NSW Senate seat, former federal minister Dave Sharma (pictured left with his wife, Rachel Lord) will return to Australia's federal parliament. Mr Sharma defeated Andrew Constance in the final election on Sunday in a vote of Liberal Party members.

A Liberal senator has painted an ominous picture of what decriminalizing drug use might mean for Canberra, advising that the Canberra area will be the ACT's 'drug capital' with bikies taking over the streets. Michaelia Cash (left) swore on Thursday that she would defame the territory's decriminalization law with a private senator's bill, but Labor and the Greens denied it. Senator Cash argued that the ACT statutes go beyond Australia's shores and lead to the use of ice on cruise ships in international waters.

On Wednesday afternoon, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie defended his return by calling for a postponement of the probe in order for Mr Joyce, who is now in Ireland, to appear. However, Labor, alongside the Greens and Independent Senator David Pocock, was able to defeat the proposal by 34 votes to 31. On Wednesday afternoon, Ms McKenzie will hold a press conference to discuss the result of the investigation.

Caleb Bond's first home in Adelaide, South Australia, was a two-bedroom apartment for $528,000. After saving up since he was 17 and refusing to go on holidays, he bought the apartment three years ago. My parents were not able to give me a single penny - they couldn't have to.' They did, however, generously give me a roof over my head,' he wrote in an opinion piece for news.com.au.

Senator Bridget McKenzie of the United States has been calling for an official probe this week, and she was rewarded 32-31 on Tuesday afternoon. Labour and the Greens opposed the measure, although the Liberal Party, Nationals, One Country, and David Pocock all supported it. Ms McKenzie explained of the decision: "The Senate has consented to a brief and critical inquiry into Federal Labor's decision to limit flights to major capital cities.' We can now get to the bottom of why the government has banned Australians from operating a safe, reliable, and competitive airline industry.'

David Van Dyce has returned to the senate seven weeks after Lidia Thorpe had accused him of sexual assault. At 11 a.m. on Monday, the troubled senator took his new seat on the crossbench, just a stone's throw from Senator Thorpe's seat. He arrived for the morning service and made a quick exit right away.

Stan Grant (right), as he said his'soul hurts' in a moving goodbye speech (centre), he had one final dig at ABC after presenting his last ever Q+A episode (right). Grant revealed on Friday that after being exposed to "relentless racial filth," he was forced to leave the ABC as a result of his "institutional failure" after no one had his help. In an extraordinary choice of words, he apologized to the trolls who mocked him, saying, 'I'm sorry that I must have given you so much reason to hate me.' Hundreds of ABC workers (bottom left) demonstrated their love for Grant by lowering tools and holding placards in a touching march attended by his ex-wife, SBS journalist Karla Grant, and his daughter, NITV journalist Lowanna (top left).

Renters who applied for the square of grass in his backyard would have to pay $130 a week and rent their own 'tent or small shed,' the man from Eagle Vale in Sydney's southwest said. He made it clear that the space was only available for a'short stay,' and that a $520 bond and two weeks rent would be required up front. With applicants interested in the field of turf, the homeowner said he would be willing to discuss "power, water, Wi-Fi, toilets, and showers." Users of social media were quick to condemn the 'grubby' bid, with one commenter accusing the man of 'taking advantage' of the rental crisis.

After no one turned up to an open house at a house where he had been pushed out of his home due to his landlord's increase in the rent by $350 a week, a tenant has celebrated. After his landlord decided to raise the price of their apartment in the midst of Australia's devastating rental crisis, Sydneysider Sean revealed this week that he and his roommate were forced to find a new home. Despite this, the young Sydneysider discovered a'silver lining' to them being forced out, but no one appeared at the property's first inspection.

An international student who migrated to Australia said she spent $300-a-week to live in a pop-up tent in the heart of a lounge room. Because the competition for beds is so high, Zoe Jiang, 27, 27, a Chinese student, was forced to remain in short-term accommodation. She didn't even have a bed and had to pitch the tent to get some privacy from her fellow housemates, who would be in and out at all hours.

After weeks of rumors that the Greens may have disregarded the scheme by refusing to endorse it, the safeguard mechanism will now be allowed to pass through the Senate and become statute. The initiative would require the country's top 215 carbon dioxide emitters to reduce emissions by five percent per year from 2005 to 2030. Initially, Mr Bandt and his allies were worried that it might exacerbate the climate crisis.

During an unscheduled interview in Canberra's hallways on Tuesday morning, News Corp Journalist Caleb Bonds chastised Mr Pocock for wearing a Tame Impala T-shirt while speaking to journalists. 'He couldn't even put on a collared shirt,' Bond said. In a post to Instagram on Wednesday, Bond's thoughts on T-shirts was expanded by his partner, author and comedian Rosie Waterland. 'Well, not kidding, when I tell him he doesn't even have a T-shirt - he says "they're not dignified," she wrote in a caption with a picture of Bond sipping on a drink.

David Pocock, an Australian politician, has fired back at a snooty journalist who was wearing a t-shirt when he was being interviewed in parliament. During an unscheduled interview in Canberra's hallways on Tuesday morning, Senator wore a Tame Impala t-shirt when speaking to reporters.

According to the peak body for pipeline infrastructure, electrifying Australian households by upgrading gas appliances could cost taxpayers more than $63 billion. Steve Davies, the Australian Pipelines and Gas Association's chief executive, revealed that the hefty estimate came from costing research carried out by Parliamentary Budget Office for independent Senator David Pocock (inset). According to the PBO, electrify just one suburb in the ACT would cost $11.3 million.

To remove some of the pain from unsustainable energy price increases, Australians need 'urgent, targeted, meaningful action,' according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers (pictured left with wife Laura). The government has introduced its bill to combat soaring and unfair gas prices, as well as small businesses that are still suffering from rising power bills. After Anthony Albanese secured the Senate endorsement of the Greens, David Pocock, and the Jacqui Lambie Network, it will sail through both houses.

Pauline Hanson (left) of One Nation has slammed rugby star and independent senator for the ACT David Pocock (right), granting him a new nickname. In a speech on Tuesday night, the One Nation senator yelled at Mr Pocock about his role in assisting in the passing of the bill.

The Australian public has slammed Philip Lowe for apologizing interest rate rises. Based on RBA's recommendation, the Reserve Bank Governor issued an apology to borrowers who took out a loan and estimated rates to remain at a historic low of 0.1 percent until 2024 - only to cop seven monthly hikes. 'I'm certainly sorry if people listened to what we'd heard and then acted on what we'd said and now regret what we'd done,' he said at the Senate Economics hearing on Monday.

Senator Jacqui Lambie (left) and David Pocock (right)'s union has already fallen apart over a last-minute deal to fund Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's industrial relations bill. Labor needs legislation from the Greens and one other senator, making the two kingmakers who were stronger if they stuck together. However, it soon became clear that they had divergent views on the IR bill, and the government penned in on the more conciliatory Senator Pocock until a compromise was reached about 9 p.m. on Saturday. Senator Lambie was furious that her erstwhile comrade decided against sticking with her to post the bill until next year, and she retaliated on Monday.