, you can either opt for a standard deduction or itemize. Itemizing generally only makes sense if your itemized deductions add up to more than the current standard deduction of $29,200 for a married couple.
to advise Parliament on issues that affect Indigenous lives. Indigenous Australians account for 4% of the population and are the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority.The referendum was defeated and the government was accused by critics of focusing on a minority group instead of the needs of the majority during an inflation crisis.
Albanese, who is divorced and has an adult son, was to become the first Australian prime minister to marry in office after he proposed to his fiancee Jodie Haydon on Valentine’s Day last year.The couple initially planned to marry before the election, but Labor strategists feared a wedding during a cost of living crisis could hurt his reelection chances. Albanese now says it will happen after the election, but before the end of the year.He has been accused of focusing too much on life after politics by buying a
last year at Copacabana Beach, 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Sydney. It’s a region where Haydon grew up and where three generations of her family still live.The 4.3-million Australian dollar ($2.7-million) price tag for the four-bedroom, clifftop home has been highlighted in the news media as many Australians struggle with a shortage of affordable housing.
“I understand I’m fortunate. I also know what it is like to struggle,” Albanese said of his new home.
Since Howard was voted out as prime minister after 11 years in 2007, six people have held the job — including the current Australian Ambassador to the United Stateswith The Associated Press that “there’s no discrimination in the fees.”
“The price rules are uniform for absolutely all those who transit the canal and clearly defined,” he said.He also said China was not operating the canal. He noted Chinese companies operating in the ports on either end of the canal were part of a Hong Kong consortium that won a bidding process in 1997. He added that U.S. and Taiwanese companies are operating other ports along the canal as well.
Vásquez stressed that the canal can’t give special treatment to U.S.-flagged ships because of a neutrality treaty. He said requests for exceptions are routinely rejected, because the process is clear and there mustn’t be arbitrary variations. The only exception in the neutrality treaty is for American warships, which receive expedited passage.Trump, complaining about rising charges for ships transiting the canal, has refused to rule out