There are no significant taxes on housing investment in Australia and infact there are tax concessions to do so ("Negative Gearing") which no government has the

There are no significant taxes on housing investment in Australia and infact there are tax concessions to do so ("Negative Gearing") which no government has the guts to repeal because the largest cohort of voters (people 60+) benefit so much from it that to repeal it is political suicide.