A reintroduction of death duties is inevitable. There is so much hatred by Gen Y of pensioners who are so selfish they want to live in their own home, the one they bought with their own money, that if they can't steal it off them when they are alive, they will do it when they die.
It may be a little less obvious and take the form of a reverse mortgage with the ATO as the counter-party, but it will happen.
