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Hard working Brickies, carpenters, plasterers, painters, sparkies and labourers will be among the hardest hit by Labor’s planned changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax.

Not only will house prices suffer (on top of the existing downturn in the market) and small investors slugged, but a new report has found that there will be up to 32,000 fewer construction industry jobs due to Bill Shorten and Labor’s tax hikes.

Babies born in Tasmania are set to be “genderless” on their official birth certificate, with moves likely to remove the specification of which sex they are from the official document.

There’s been a lot of discussion about the record swing that saw the NSW seat of Wentworth switch from one of the safest Liberal seats in the country to Independent, Dr Kerryn Phelps.

Certainly there were many factors at play. But one that seems to have escaped a great deal of scrutiny is the major role of GetUp and other left-leaning organisations in securing the result they wanted.

As the old saying goes: “if that’s the answer, it must have been a pretty stupid question”.

According to recent research from the Centre for Independent Studies, socialism has become fashionable. Even the esteemed Washington Post ran an article earlier this year with the headline “It’s time to give Socialism a try”.

Federal Labor looks set to head into the election, due next year, with plenty of cash to splash on their election promises, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office.

But where’s the money coming from? Sadly, its from you, me and future generations.

Every Australian household will pay up to $190 more each year to fund even more solar subsidies, a new analysis has found. This is on top of the massive subsidies that have already pushed electricity prices so high.

Yikes! That’s $190 that you could have in your pocket!

Australian software giant and massive success story, Atlassian, is questioning how employers focus on diversity in the workplace.

In an online article for Computerworld, Aubrey Blanche, Head of Diversity and Belonging at Atlassian explains:

“The words diversity and inclusion and the way we were thinking about those concepts were getting in the way,” she says.

“In victory, magnanimity.” wrote Winston Churchill, one of the great leaders of modern times, after the end of World War II.

A civil and fair sentiment you’d think - especially after staring down Nazi extremism and fighting to liberate western Europe. But not according to the politically correct left in 2018.

In a clear case of ideology over biology, a transgender person who was born a man has won gold in a women’s cycling event at the UCI Masters track championships in Los Angeles.

Dr Rachel McKinnon, a Canadian philosophy professor at South Carolina’s College of Charleston, took to social media to celebrate her world championship win in the women’s 35-44 sprint final at the Velo Sports Center in Los Angeles earlier this week...