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Essay: a sober, responsible budget, but negative gearing a blind spot

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This is a longer version of Saul Eslake’s take on the budget, on why negative gearing is still the elephant in the room for the government.

Scott Morrison is very keen for his first budget to be viewed as “not just another budget” – to the point of saying so not once, but twice, in the first three lines of his budget speech....

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