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Why are Australia's unemployment payments so inadequate? Experts say they have been deteriorating for decades (www.abc.net.au)
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[-] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

There are a lot of things which can be done to start fixing it, but we won't even do those. Get rid of the capital gains discount and make investment losses only able to be counted against profit from that investment (not other income).

Then you can start looking at supply and liquidity issues.

this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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