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FactCheck: are average earners the main beneficiaries of negative gearing?

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imageAssistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer said average income earners are the main group taking advantage of negative gearing.AAP Image/Lukas Coch

Average income earners largely are the people who do get to take advantage of negative gearing - nurses, policemen and women on an average wage, investing, for instance, in a property. Most of them hold only one...

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Properties under fire: why so many Australians are inadequately insured against disaster

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imageAround 20% of Australians are not insured against disasters, and even a quarter of those who do may be under-coveredAAP Image/Jason Webster

The fire season has started early. Homes were destroyed last month in bushfires near Lancefield, Victoria, while buildings and lives have been lost as fires continue to sweep through southern Western Australia.

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