Australia election 2025 live: Greens to use hung parliament to revive political fight over negative gearing and capital gains tax

Adam Bandt to tell press club the minor party will insist on changes to the tax breaks in a hung parliament. Follow today’s news liveAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastNew Liberal candidate for Whitlam defends 2019 claims about “Marxist ideologies” in schoolsThe new Liberal candidate for Whitlam has defended claims he made in 2019 while he was a NSW MP that students were being “brainwashed” by Marxist and woke ideologies in schoolsI believe childhood is a period of innocence. I want to see schools teach core skills, not agendas. I want my children to learn about history, geography, mathematics, Western civilisation, science and the arts; not Safe Schools, gender fluidity and other forms of Marxist brainwashing.Australia’s school students are falling further behind their international peers, while the Labor government is encouraging activism rather than making common sense improvements to the school curriculum.A Liberal government will help get our education system back to basics by focusing on explicit instruction and other evidence-based teaching methods which prioritise reading, writing, maths and science.Renters and first home buyers may get smashed even further in the next few months as wealthy investors spooked by Trump leave stocks and shares and pile into property, pushing house prices into the stratosphere.Investors with big money behind them could jump into the housing market because of these incentives and lower interest rates, while first homebuyers with their life savings would be priced out of the already overheated market. Continue reading...