The Conversation’s experts annotate Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2017-18 budget speech.
- Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
Wonky forecasts show it’s time for a new approach that adopts more conservative forecasts, and makes a genuine commitment to budget repair.
Data for 2014-15 from the Australian Taxation Office shows inequality is growing in a number of areas.
Women’s participation in economics starts off strong but progressively falls through the ranks.
Why are the opinion pages of Australia’s media pages less diverse than even ASX 200 boards?
Budget repair was put off till later, and the net impact of decisions in the budget was small, but it will be easier to defend in the coming election campaign than some other recent efforts.
Having made a commitment to reduce spending, the federal government will have its work cut out with this year’s budget, which may require revisiting policy ideas that have caused it pain in the past.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned that Labor’s negative gearing policy would deliver “massive shocks” to the residential housing market and drive all investors away. Does that claim stack up?
The Productivity Commission’s take-no-prisoners report on our anti-dumping regime was met with an odd silence.
Negative gearing is not the housing saviour those in the industry claim it to be.
There isn’t a magical formula which compensates everyone for an increase in the GST - but there is a way to ensure fairness.
The budget trajectory relies on a lot going right at a time when the government hasn’t seen many green shoots.
Big reforms in taxation and competition policy are on the table for the Abbott government, but has it spent too much political capital to get any of them across the line?
Australia’s latest GST debate may be the political version of The Magic Pudding. We stubbornly believe that a bigger pot of GST revenues will regenerate – in whatever flavour is desired – like Alfred the…
Having enjoyed continuously increasing prosperity since the Second World War, Australians have come to expect that each generation will live a better life than the last. But this steady progress may be…
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