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House prices and demographics make death duties an idea whose time has come

  • Written by John Mangan, Professor and Director of the Australian Institute For Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
image$3.5 trillion is about to be poured into a small number of hands over the next two decades.Shutterstock

Suddenly, death duties are part of the election campaign.

Not that Labor (or the Coalition) is proposing them, but photoshopped fake tweets from Labor figures saying they will introduce them have been doing the rounds, and the Coalition is using...

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