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There's some validity in that, but interfering with the free market is always a disaster. There is a shortage of rental accommodation already. Stopping investment is likely to increase that shortage, not necessarily enabling all those unhoused renters to buy. Property investors are hated, but...

Priotitize? That's exactly what compulsory super STOPS people doing. They need and want to prioritize a home, but instead they are forced to throw bucketloads of money at a retirement plan that makes no sense when you have to pay out millions in rent. Let people buy a home FIRST, as my...

And the reason Labor DOESN'T want to do it is they want people poor and renting. For heaven's sake, think about the cost of rent. A couple pays millions in rent over a lifetime, then when they can FINALLY draw on their super to buy a house, it's six to 10 times more expensive than if they had...

And you CANNOT fund your own retirement if you have to pay rent. A home is the FIRST necessity for a comfortable retirement.

Super can never replace the pension, ESPECIALLY if people can't afford a home. A home is far better security in retirement than super. It's the renters costing the country money and whining about living in poverty! Let people access super to buy a very modest home, and then their accommodation...

What kind of idiot thinks it's better to have money in super than a home of your own? I retired self-funded with a comfortable amount of super, but if I had to pay rent I would be on a pension and rent assistance within 10 years after retirement. Anyone who owns their home outright CAN live on...

Vile and disgusting neighbours forced us out of our home over a fence dispute. Because they didn't get away with a demand to pay an exorbitant amount for an unnecessary fence that we were never consulted about (they did sue, but lost the court case!) they started a vendetta - letting tyres down...

Actually, if you own your home you can manage okay on the pension. It's the renters who are struggling in retirement and costing the government money. It is patently STUPID to prioritize retirement savings over a home of your own. You might retire with a little more - not much more, because rent...

Where did you learn economics? I have a reasonably healthy super balance - enough that I don't qualify for any pension. If I had to pay rent, I would not be able to live on the income from my super and within 5 years I would be on a pension. How patently STUPID to think super is more benefit in...

With sensible limits on the type of home you can use super to buy or pay off, this would be a sensible reform. Super is useless if you don't have a home. Take the example of a couple in their early 50s still renting, but with $800,000 between them in super. By retirement, they will have well in...

What a silly proposition, when the government is bringing in half a million immigrants every year. So seniors who have lived and paid taxes in Australia their whole lives are supposed to leave so that immigrants can have their homes. Get stuffed!

I don't have any tips for saving other than shopping around and, if you can, installing solar panels. But I find it very disturbing that life is so much more complicated than it was decades ago. We used to ask the local electricity provider to connect and we paid the bill. There was no...

But sadly governments presume to deny people choice. And advanced care directive does not allow you to request to die in Qld unless you have a terminal illness and have been declared almost certain to die within a year. That is outrageous and disgusting. A person should be able to declare under...

I agree with the bride's decision, but she must not have paid much attention to the character and personality of the man she was marrying. If he was that inconsiderate, there would have been signals earlier that she should have heeded.

Anyone who thinks there will be any change in the way supermarkets operate - other than bigger price increases - is delusional. The government will do NOTHING.

mylittletibbies I know your struggle. My daughter has a seriously disabled child. It's a 24/7 job, with no respite. And it's hard work. Compound the physical strain of caring with the mental pain of seeing your child suffer and being unable to give them the life you want for them, and having to...

Wait just a minute here, folks. Chefs make pretty good money. This woman is from a two-income household with no kids and a hubby working in a reasonably well-paid trade - yet she wants struggling taxpayers to hand her over $4000! FOR WHAT? If she can't afford a few weeks off work unpaid, she is...

I'm sorry, but I find this woman's complaint offensive. Centrelink is funded by taxpayers, and many taxpayers are struggling - for all sorts of reasons - and unable to get any help or respite. Why should someone receive benefits for losing a baby at less than half way through a pregnancy...

My heart is not a rock. I feel deep sympathy for this woman. But money doesn't grow on trees. It comes out of the pockets of other Australians who are struggling to pay their own bills. I have family in dire financial circumstances because of health issues, but paying over $10K in taxes...

Actually, in the year before workers got a $1500 tax cut, their taxes increased by $1460. I don't think their tax cut will help them much! But I agree that the aged and disabled are discriminated against.