Property Rights Australia

04/06/2026

Albanese's recent speech at the Press Club may have been widely reported in the mainstream media, but no one really gave it the anaysis it deserves.

Not so the Institute of Public Affairs. Their substack article titled "Everything That Makes Us Australian", provides a theme that should resonate widely.

It speaks to a growing unease that much of what Australians once took for granted is being steadily eroded by a thousand bureaucratic decisions, cultural hesitations and political fashions.

We are seeing the disappearance of the easygoing confidence of the country, the belief in fair play, the reward for effort, a sense of national pride without apology, practical common sense over ideology, the freedom to speak plainly and the respect for those who build, farm, defend and produce.

These are part of the Australian character.

Yet increasingly, many people feel that everything which made Australia distinctive is being talked down, regulated away, or recast as something to be ashamed of.
We see it when productive industries are treated as embarrassments rather than strengths, history is filtered only through grievance, identity politics overrides citizenship, bureaucracies expand while responsibility shrinks and ordinary people are lectured by elites far removed from daily life.

Australians are a tolerant people, but they are not fools. They can sense when the country is drifting away from the values that made it successful. This does not mean living in the past or resisting all change. But healthy change builds on strengths. It does not require dismantling the foundations.

Australia became one of the most successful societies on earth through hard work, stable institutions, abundant energy, private initiative, freedom of thought and a culture that valued contribution over complaint

The public mood increasingly suggests that people want a country that remembers what made it work in the first place. Because if everything that made us Australian is discarded, we should not be surprised if the country no longer feels the same.

From a government which has undermined Australian identity from the start

04/06/2026

Handing over to the next generation has always been difficult but this government is determined not to make it any easier.

Family farms aren’t a stock portfolio. They’re not investment property. They’re not a side hustle.

They are decades of work, debt and risk, held together by one family.

The federal tax framework doesn’t recognise that. It treats handover like a commercial sale and sends the bill to the next generation.

Rural Australia deserves better.

03/06/2026

There is another article behind the paywall at The Spectator Australia asking a question many Australians are quietly starting to ask themselves. Are death duties next?

The concern has emerged following the Federal Budget and the government’s backflip on previous commitments regarding negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions. Critics argue that once longstanding tax assurances begin to unravel, people naturally start wondering what could come next.

For younger Australians already struggling with housing affordability, rising living costs, bracket creep and diminishing opportunities to build wealth, the idea of governments eventually targeting family inheritances strikes a nerve.

Australia abolished death duties decades ago because they were widely seen as punitive taxes on savings and assets accumulated over a lifetime, often forcing families to sell farms, businesses or property simply to meet tax obligations.

Of course, the government currently says it has no plans to introduce such taxes. But the broader issue raised by the article goes beyond death duties themselves and raises the issue of trust.

When governments repeatedly promise not to touch certain taxes, then later reverse course, people inevitably become sceptical about future assurances. That scepticism grows when public spending continues expanding while governments search for new revenue sources to sustain it.

The deeper concern is that Australia is steadily drifting toward a system where aspiration is penalised, asset ownership is targeted and intergenerational wealth transfer is increasingly viewed as a problem to be taxed rather than the product of hard work and long-term sacrifice.

Whether or not death duties ever return, the fact Australians are seriously discussing the possibility tells its own story about confidence in the direction of economic policy.

Labor has acted like a communist ‘thief in the night’, snatching the future wealth of Australian families to cover their incompetence.

03/06/2026

We do a lot of posts about feral pigs and the diminishing funding and support for control programmes. Most centre around the effect if foot and mouth disease enters the country from the north.
However, more significant on a day to day basis, and not mentioned in this article, is that they can also spread leptospirosis.
The story of this cattle vet’s experience is a warning about the severity of the disease which can be fatal or severely debilitating.
He warns that strict hygiene protocols are necessary to stop its spread.
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“In 2018 flying vet Campbell Costello felt lethargic after preg testing on a property in the Kimberley but thought he had just contracted a bad flu that was going around town at the time.
Unfortunately for him it was not the flu but leptospirosis instead.
"I drove back to Broome, which was about a seven-hour drive. I got back to my apartment, had a shower and collapsed on the floor," he said.
"Thankfully, a friend called by my apartment in Broome and found me just fetal position on the tiles, sweating, eyes rolled into my head, just totally out.”
"It took me a while to come to and I think if he hadn't have found me, I may have had a very heartbreaking end to my sickness."
https://www.northqueenslandregister.com.au/story/9256537/campbell-costello-how-a-bad-flu-was-deadly-leptospirosis/?

The scary reality of a disease often mistaken for common influenza.

03/06/2026

Whole industries destroyed by governments based on unreliable science, in this case, the timber industry.
So-called environmental groups have spent hundreds of millions of dollars defaming forestry, farming and fishing, with much of all three going out of business.

02/06/2026

There is an excellent article behind the paywall at The Spectator Australia looking at what Senator David Pocock and others are missing in the current debate about taxing gas exports.

The key point is one too many politicians and commentators ignore and that is Australia is a federation.

The gas resources being targeted for new taxes are largely owned by the states, not Canberra. Royalties already flow to state governments, and those revenues help fund services, infrastructure and regional economies.

Yet the current debate often treats gas as if it is simply a pot of money waiting for the federal government to seize. That thinking completely overlooks sovereign risk, investment certainty, long-term export contracts, fuel security and Australia’s role as a reliable supplier to allies in our region.

There is also a deeper hypocrisy in the debate. Governments simultaneously want more domestic gas supply, want lower energy prices, want reliable electricity generation and want to discourage investment in the very industry that provides those things. At some point, the contradiction becomes impossible to ignore.

The article also highlights how simplistic slogans, such as comparing gas tax revenue to beer excise, are being used to drive a much more complex debate about national energy security, investment and federal-state relations.

Australia already taxes and regulates the gas industry heavily. The real challenge is ensuring affordable and reliable energy while maintaining investment confidence and sovereign capability.

Somewhere between discussions of gas abundance and scarcity people sense that we’re not quite getting what we should for mining resources.

02/06/2026

"For more than a century, foresters harvested timber, regenerated forests, conducted research, protected vast areas from wildfire and pioneered conservation measures "

Australia has a large and diverse public native forest estate, the management of which remains controversial, especially in relation to timber harvesting. We reviewed the criticisms and assertions ...

02/06/2026

Ag Horizons Forum is an event solely focused on the profitability of agriculture and the viability of regional communities.

Kickstarted by the devastating news of the closure of the Peanut Company of Australia facility in Kingaroy last year, Ag Horizons was formed by farmers and community leaders who love agriculture, love regional communities and no longer want to stand by and watch our industries die before our eyes.

We are deeply concerned about the lack of profitability in many Australian agricultural industries and the future of food manufacturers/processors we rely on to value add to our products.

While the fate of the peanut industry inspired the forum, the focus of the Forum's agenda is broad and applies to all agricultural industries AND the regional communities that rely on a prosperous ag sector.

We are hosting this forum to bring together farmers, elected representatives, business leaders and regional community leaders to share ideas and drive practical solutions that strengthen businesses and revitalise regional economies.

Event Details: 19 June 2026; 9 am - 3 pm

Location: Town Hall - Glendon Street, Kingaroy, Queensland

02/06/2026

Pigs and all other funding for feral animal control was severely reduced in this year's Federal budget. The government in Canberra is paying little attention to the problem.

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"Current estimates suggest there are up to 26 million feral pigs across the country, and unless urgent action is taken, the problem will only get worse. Experts say around 70 per cent of the population must be removed just to reduce numbers, with as many as 15 million pigs needing to be culled every year simply to stand still.

“These pests breed rapidly, spread disease and cause untold devastation to agriculture and the environment, yet regional Australians are being left to fight this battle largely on their own."

Feral pigs are tearing through farms, waterways and wetlands, leaving behind millions of dollars in damage and devastation for producers already under enormous pressure, LNP Senator for Queensland Susan McDonald says...Read More