The Grand Plan released their Report Card on the three major parties aged care promises and the results are extremely underwhelming. The Report Card measured the parties against the Grand Plans own stated objectives. The Greens came out on top with the most comprehensive aged care policy but the Coalition who have pledged a total of $935m funds to aged care and Labor who have promised a lighter $532m have managed to dodge a lot of aged care bullets.
ATO plans to charge GST on manufactured home parks scrapped
A concerted effort by the Residents Association of manufactured home parks has headed off the ATO which had planned to impose GST in mobile homes. This would have added 10% to the cost of the purchase of a home