Samantha Maiden

Pauline Hanson has unveiled a plan to allow workers to cash out their super for a pay rise worth up to $12,900 over three years for couples with a combined income of $160,000.

Australia is on track for one of the biggest housing downturns in 40 years but the government has doubled down, insisting it’s good news for first-home buyers.

The Liberal Party is working on three options to allow workers to access super to buy a home including using super as an offset to their mortgage, or as collateral to get a bigger loan.

Liberal Party frontbencher Andrew Bragg has been blasted by colleagues for his calls to debate using superannuation as a mortgage offset, as collateral or as a cash-out to buy a home.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers was warned in confidential Treasury advice that planned tax changes would put downward pressure on house prices, increase rents and reduce housing supply.

The average amount held in superannuation at retirement is set to double over the next decade in a stunning accumulation of wealth that will reduce reliance on the aged pension.

The White House has sent a shot across the bow over Australia’s latest move to clamp down on social media as “a form of extortion.”

Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie has slammed Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce as “lying cowards” after One Nation released a satirical cartoon describing him as a “gutless maggott” and a “traitor”.

Military veteran Jacqui Lambie has blasted Pauline Hanson as a “bloody coward” for attacking Liberal MP Andrew Hastie’s commitment to Australia after he risked his life in Afghanistan.

Rents could rise five times the government’s prediction of $2-a-week as a result of negative gearing and capital gains tax changes, according to new research commissioned by the real estate industry.