The Barefoot Investor has issued a blunt piece of advice to investors days out from the federal budget. Finance guru Scott Pape said those who are concerned about Labor’s proposed capital gains tax (CGT) changes should just stop whinging, amid concerns the changes will force landlords to jack up rents. ‘For…
Treasurer Jim Chalmers confirms tax win for Aussie landlords in the budget – but not everyone will be spared
The Albanese government will deliver a significant win for existing property investors in Tuesday’s federal budget, confirming that almost one million landlords will keep their negative gearing tax breaks, even as tough new restrictions hit future buyers. Current investors will be fully protected under generous grandfathering provisions, retaining negative gearing…
Efforts underway to repatriate Aussies on hantavirus-riddled cruise ship after deadly outbreak
Australian officials are on their way to the island of Tenerife to help repatriate four citizens and one permanent resident aboard the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius. The cruise ship at the centre of the outbreak is set to dock on the Spanish-controlled island on Sunday morning local time (2.30pm AEST), where…
Rachel Reeves’ Downing Street flat needed £20,000 revamp after the original furniture went missing
By DAVID JARVIS Published: 00:04 BST, 10 May 2026 | Updated: 01:59 BST, 10 May 2026 Taxpayers spent nearly £20,000 furnishing Rachel Reeves’ Downing Street flat after the original government furniture went missing – and no one in Whitehall can say where it went. The flat was empty when Chancellor…
Investigators give bleak Kristin Smart update after new search at killer’s mom’s home sparked hope she’d be returned 30 years after disappearance
By WILKO MARTÍNEZ-CACHERO, US REPORTER Published: 01:25 BST, 10 May 2026 | Updated: 01:39 BST, 10 May 2026 The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office announced Saturday that it had not recovered Kristin Smart at the home of the mother of her killer. Authorities confirmed they had finished searching the…
‘If Starmer ever had a plot, he’s lost it’: Veteran MP’s withering verdict as ‘zombie’ PM faces stalking horse challenge – and Andy Burnham moves a step closer to Downing Street
Andy Burnham moved a step closer to Downing Street last night after Sir Keir Starmer was accused of ‘losing the plot’ over the threat to his leadership. The damaging claim from one of the Prime Minister’s own senior MPs came after he unexpectedly appointed two ‘relics’ of the Tony Blair…
Thousands of criminals treating community service like litter-picking as optional – by abandoning or simply refusing to start unpaid work
By NICK CONSTABLE, REPORTER Published: 00:29 BST, 10 May 2026 | Updated: 00:30 BST, 10 May 2026 Thousands of criminals are treating community service sentences as optional – by simply refusing to start or abandoning them. Ministry of Justice figures show courts in England and Wales issued 53,685 unpaid work…
Kemi Badenoch’s strong defence of Jewish community ‘helped the Conservatives outperform expectations in local elections’
By GABRIEL MILLARD-CLOTHIER, POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 00:01 BST, 10 May 2026 | Updated: 00:01 BST, 10 May 2026 THE Tory leader’s energetic defence of the Jewish community helped her party outperform expectations at Thursday’s local elections, her strategists believe. Tory HQ pointed to Kemi Badenoch’s sharp rebuke of a heckler…
Neighbour ‘found Jake Hall dead with shard of glass in his neck’ outside Majorca villa after Towie star ‘ran through patio door thinking it was open’
The hero neighbour who rushed to save Jake Hall when he heard glass smashing in the TOWIE star’s Majorcan Airbnb has broken his silence for the first time since the tragedy. Rafel lives directly opposite the property where the television-star-turned-fashion-designer had been renting a home in the sleepy village of…
‘IT WAS CLEAR HE WASN’T A DANGER TO ANYONE’: Undercover gardai had sit-down with tragic Evan Fitzgerald NINE days before they sold him illegal guns in sting op that saw Carlow shooter and two pals arrested
Undercover gardaí had a face-to-face meeting with Carlow shopping centre shooter Evan Fitzgerald at a Dublin pub nine days before they arrested him and two friends in a covert sting operation, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Investigators took photographs of Mr Fitzgerald and put the troubled young man…