A miracle isn’t a rare government intervention. It’s restoring the perception that aspiration, ambition and productivity are commonplace in Australia. The new CGT does the opposite. The only problem is when we start believing they’re not. #StoptheCGT

A Looming Tax Nightmare: The Death of Australian Superannuation and Lessons from Norway. Cleaning up my desk and found this old draft Oped courtesy of @AlboMP & @JEChalmers ‘s policies. Great journalism victory by @mcranston1 @australian Tax on paper gains you may never make. Super balances over $3m. Capital flight. Broken 2022 promise: “we have no intention of making any super changes.” Norway doubled the tax on unrealised gains. 100 of their top 400 taxpayers left. GDP, venture capital and confidence followed them out the door. This is not the Australia I want. Not in my lifetime. #JoinWARonCGT

Australia wins the award: highest effective CGT in the world. 🏆🥇A disaster for the Australian economy. Tax the winners at full freight, leave the losers with the investor, and the real rate on productive capital jumps to 65–80%. No serious economy does this. Capital is mobile. Founders and investors will leave. What a pair of economic vandals @AlboMP & @JEChalmers are. Great analysis, AI & Derek.

Great work Chris. This ranking should alarm every Australian and every policymaker. @AlboMP ’s CGT changes have made the family home the most tax-efficient asset in Australia and productive investment the least. That’s not reform. That’s how you lock capital in houses and starve growing companies of the money they need. A country that taxes aspiration will get less of it. PS LICs would go with ETFs in category B.

The new CGT introduced by @AlboMP is a disaster for all young Australians. Eight more years to get the deposit. That’s not helping first home buyers. That’s punishing the ones who actually invest to get there. Wake up @AlboMP Scrap it. #StoptheCGT #JoinWARonCGT

Agree Derek. A must watch. This CGT must be stopped

You don’t have to pay CGT to be hit by it. @profholden is 💯 right. @AlboMP ’ CGT rewrite means less investment, fewer businesses and fewer employers competing for your skills. That’s how a tax on capital becomes a tax on wages. #StoptheCGT #JoinWARonCGT

The @AlboMP government’s new CGT changes are already changing investor behaviour. The results are not good. Some call it economic vandalism. Growth is becoming less attractive. Income is becoming more attractive. That has consequences for where capital goes, how businesses invest and how young Australians build wealth. Damien and I discuss what this means for Australia’s investment future.

Great work Bronwyn. Fantastic to see an Australian leading the indoor air quality push at #UNGA81. We spend 90% of our lives indoors. Clean air in schools, hospitals and workplaces isn’t a luxury, it’s basic public health. Solutions already exist. Now we need leaders to use them. Keep fighting for what is right.#IAQ

Andrew you need to stop drinking the cool aid. You can’t run a “productivity agenda” while punishing the capital that funds it. Under Labor, productivity is going backwards. The IGR’s 1.2% assumption is a fairytale papered over with AI talking points. Then your leader @AlboMP kills patient capital and slug trusts. That’s not spreading AI through firms. That’s locking capital in place and telling risk-takers to sit on their hands and do nothing. Time to wake up. #StoptheCGT #JoinWARonCGT

Well asked @latikambourke exceptional question! @AtlanticCouncil Global Citizen award in New York?? CGT economic vandalism back in Australia! @AlboMP ‘s new CGT is a tax on every Australian who invests, starts a business or tries to get ahead. The polls are the verdict. Taxing young Australians aspirations and ambition while destroying productivity must be stopped. #StoptheCGT #JoinWARonCGT #GCA2026 #ACAwards #UNGA81

Never seen a better question either Rita. Now we need the follow-up to @AlboMP . Don’t you feel like a lier and a fraud talking “aspiration” and “productivity” in @realDonaldTrump’s New York while your CGT rewrite turns the ATO into at least a 47% silent partner on every Australian’s start-up and small business plus shares. @AlboMP ‘s new CGT is a tax on people who actually invest. A tax on productivity, aspiration and ambition. It’s economics vandalism. The new CGT on Australian businesses must be stopped. #StoptheCGT #JoinWARonCGT

The independent AI verdict is in: @AlboMP ’s capital gains tax changes on Australian shares are a disaster that should be reversed. @JEChalmers says AI will lift productivity. Please listen to AI then and scrap these economy-killing tax increases. Eat your own cooking! #StoptheCGT #JoinWARonCGT

Young Australians didn’t suddenly forget how to have kids. They worked out they can’t buy a home, start a business or keep what they save under @AlboMP ’s 2026 tax raid. The IGR’s fertility collapse isn’t a mystery. It’s the invoice. Sad for all Australians #StoptheCGT #JoinWARonCGT

Perfected the con, @DHughesy @AlboMP & @JEChalmers ’s 2026 Budget slugs investment at world-high rates, then sells it as fairness. It doesn’t hit “the rich”. It hits young Australians trying to get ahead. #JoinWARonCGT #StoptheCGT

This is the intergenerational report in one clip: @JEChalmers talks fairness while Charlotte cops the 50% tax on the capital she actually needs to get ahead. That’s not concern for the next generation. That’s economic vandalism with better lighting. #WarOnAspiration #JoinWARonCGT #StoptheCGT

Is this the definition of insanity. @JEChalmers wants an AI productivity miracle. @AlboMP and his new CGT taxes the investors, startups and shareholders who fund it. You don’t get an AI dividend by slugging investment at world-high tax rates. The IGR can’t paper over a tax designed to punish aspiration and ambition. Wake up Albo & Jim #JoinWARonCGT #StoptheCGT

Great on the ground feedback. @AlboMP is an economic vandal.