Australian Institute for Progress

Some of the happy attendees at our Sir Thomas McIlwraith Lecture. Each year generous members contribute toward a scholarship fund so that we can introduce a new generation to Sir Thomas, and an inspiring guest speaker, in this case Steve Baxter of Shark Tank fame.

With house prices out of reach for most young people we need more affordable houses for rent, not fewer. Can you afford the Greens?

There is no end of bad, but superficially attractive policy being promoted in this election. One of the worst is from the Greens. A ban on negative gearing, doubling capital gains tax, and capping rent increases to 2% per annum. This is meant to get Australians into housing, in fact it will push up capital city rents by an additional $83 a week, on top of rent increases that would occur anyway. This is the result of modelling that we commissioned. https://aip.asn.au/2025/04/greens-tax-demands-to-hike-capital-city-rents-83-a-week-modelling/

If you're a renter and vote Greens, you're making it harder to survive, have a reasonable lifestyle, or save a deposit for that house. Will Labor go along with these policies? There is already plenty of evidence that they like the sound of them with Treasury last year modelling how much the tax measures might raise.

Greens tax demands to hike capital city rents $83 a week: modelling Greens tax demands to hike capital city rents $83 a week: modelling Posted on April 22, 2025 by Graham Young in Housing, News, Publications · Tags: Capital Gains Tax, Greens, Negative gearing, rent caps The Greens balance of power demands to abolish Negative Gearing and double Capital Gains Tax on ...