Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Tuesday, April 29.
Well, have you noticed an uptick in political ads on your social media feeds? Maybe some fire memes from the young marketing gurus at Labor? Or some gritty warnings of another three years under Albanese from the Liberal crowd?
In fact, an analysis of election ad spending on the Meta ad library – which covers social media spending on both Facebook and Instagram – shows your more likely to have come across an independent candidate’s ad.
And it turns out Curtin teal independent Kate Chaney is the biggest individual spender in the state.
Independent Member for Curtin Kate Chaney.Credit: Ross Swanborough
Hamish Hastie has the full story. You can read all about it here.
But all of that is not news to those who have been keeping a keen eye on the independents since Labor’s Simone McGurk nearly lost her “safe” seat of Fremantle to local business owner Kate Hulett in March.
Hulett’s back for another swing at politics, this time in the federal arena. Mark Naglazas has taken a closer look at how she, and other independents, have leveraged social media – and what the driving force behind their success online has been.
Read the full story here.
And finally, property is rarely far from the headlines these days, but one pundit reckons we’re focusing on the wrong side of the issue.
James Limnios reckons voters would be stunned to know governments have raked in a staggering $45.1 billion in property taxes, up 80 per cent in just a decade.
The managing director of Limnios Property Group said the current housing crisis had its root cause in governments gouging the property sector with higher taxes with fresh ABS data showing property taxes collected by just local and state governments had surged by $20 billion.
Limnios said demand was set to surge even higher off the back of housing policies released by both major political parties during the election.
You can read Sarah Brookes’ article here.
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