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Image of gas refinery with overlain text that reads, "It's time for gas corporations to pay their fair share."
Image is a simple, plain, yellow background with overlain text. The text reads, "The Remote Area Allowance must be raised immediately to support people on the lowest incomes cover high costs in remote Australia."
Image is an illustration of fuel prices as they appear on price boards at petrol stations. The first price represents the Remote Area Allowance, which is nine dollars and ten cents per week. The second price represent the price of diesel, which is currently at three dollars and fifty cents per litre. Beside the illustration, the text reads, "People living in remote areas already experience very high rates of poverty. Extreme fuel communities further behind"
Image is of a bar graph which visualises the small portion of Remote Area Allowance for a single person as compared to the already low amount of JobSeeker. Beside the graph, text reads, "The Remote Area Allowance is paid on top of income support payments to help people in remote areas with higher prices, but the payment is not indexed at all and has barely changed since it was introduced in 1984."
Image is of a photograph of a remote town in Australia from a distance. It is a small town with low-rise buildings against a backdrop of clear blue sky and stocky rock formations and hills. The town is spotted with yellowing trees and showered in balmy autumn sun. There is text overlain against the blue sky. The text reads, "Did you know it costs an estimated forty percent more to live in remote areas than in urban areas?"
Figure 18: Overall value of tax benefits (CGT discount and negative gearing) accruing to rental housing investors, ranked by income (dollars in 2024-25) (from ACOSS report, ‘Homes for living, not wealth creation’)
Figure 9: Value of Investor Loans for Existing Housing and New Construction (from ACOSS report, ‘Homes for living, not wealth creation’)
Fixing the housing crisis. It's more than building houses. We must curb expensive tax breaks that cause housing prices to soar.