Labor has proposed a crackdown on discretionary trusts, which would raise $4.1 billion over the forward estimates and $17.2 billion over a decade.
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Politics podcast: Chris Bowen on Labor’s budget responses
Labor is 'taking a bit of time' before announcing its position on the company tax cuts, Chris Bowen says.
The S&P Global report cites the potential for low wage growth and low inflation as a ‘downside risk’ for the projections on getting to budget balance.
Politics podcast: Andrew Giles on schools funding
Andrew Giles says the strong opposition from Catholic schools to the government's education package is because they were given 'almost no notice' of the funding changes.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said Australian wages growth is at record lows. Is that true?
Labor has unveiled its costings, showing it would have a deficit of around $16 billion higher across the forward estimates than that shown in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
Labor’s weakest flank in this election is economic credibility and it knows it. A combination of the past, including memories of Wayne Swan’s ever-elusive surplus, and the present, with the perception…
The opposition will attempt to strengthen its economic credentials by announcing on Friday a package of savings to help pay for its policies and improve the budget bottom line.
Was Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen right to say that the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in our living standards since records began?
Scott Morrison and Chris Bowen kept to their lines, but both ignored Australia’s most compelling economic issue.
I haven’t fallen asleep during the day for decades, but I came pretty close today watching the Treasurers’ debate between Scott Morrison and Chris Bowen on the major issue of the election campaign - economic…
It’s difficult to pick which side of politics won the first week of the election campaign.
Chris Bowen’s budget response set the framework for this campaign - now for the detail.
Chris Bowen presented at the National Press Club on Tuesday as a well-prepared alternative treasurer, who could slot into the real job very easily if July 2 brought the chance. “Neat” is the word that…
After Labor proposed a royal commission into the banking industry, Treasurer Scott Morrison said the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has all the powers of a royal commission and more. Is that right?
It has been a week of political contests, both within party lines and across them. Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan take a look at the bitter rivalry between Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott.
Politics has its own purgatory, as Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott might have reflected when they sat on the same table at the Howard government’s 20th anniversary dinner on Wednesday.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen told journalists that since the last federal election, the government has had spending as a percentage of GDP at GFC levels. Is that right?
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen told Q&A that the government would have to spend close to 60% of any GST revenue raised on compensation. Is that a fact?
Chris Bowen and Michelle Grattan step away from the day-to-day politics to talk about Bowen’s new book, The Money Men, in which he writes about twelve of Australia’s most notable treasurers.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University
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Professor and Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Lecturer in Corporations Law and Regulation of Corporate Misconduct, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Murdoch University
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne