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Last week I joined 8,500 Australians on the charity challenge to live below the extreme poverty line, spending just $2 a day on food for five days. It was tough and my diet was far from complete.
The recent history of elections in Australia is a varied one, with some spectacular crashes and own goals along the way.
In his budget reply, Bill Shorten avoided the government’s traps and wisely stressed his party’s traditional strengths: health, education and social policy.
A better tax system and long-term budget sustainability starts with this blueprint.
Malcolm Turnbull’s bold plan to give states the power to levy income tax is a risky move, and the latest in a string of attempts to ‘fix’ federal-state relations that have not succeeded.
Five months into his prime ministership, it is difficult to know what Malcolm Turnbull really stands for, and his government risks paralysis as a result.
Many of us are happy for governments to increase spending on public services, but we don’t like the idea of higher taxes. There are some good reasons for this.
Fairfax-Ipsos’ first poll of 2016 has the government ahead 52-48% on the two-party vote and Malcolm Turnbull leading Bill Shorten 64-19% as preferred prime minister. While the numbers for the Coalition…
In some circles they call Fiona Nash the “Barnaby whisperer”. It’s said she’s able to calm him down. In electing Nash their new deputy the Nationals have acted wisely.
The government has released Treasury modelling showing a tax mix switch with a 15% GST and income tax cuts would deliver no gains to economic growth.
Jay Weatherill's willingness to countenance an increase to the GST angered federal Labor colleagues. But he tells Michelle Grattan he has no regrets about his "circuit-breaker" intervention.
The gains from modest tax reform are not likely to be a revolution in Australia.
As the government considers a tax reform agenda without changing the GST, Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer discusses tax and superannuation with Michelle Grattan.
As Malcolm Turnbull continues to strike down the prospects of a GST increase being part of his tax package, the secretary of his department, Martin Parkinson, is taking charge of the tax issue bureaucratically…
Malcolm Turnbull has said the budget will contain the government’s tax policy, and questioned whether the benefits of increasing the GST would be worth the difficulties of doing so.
As parliament returned this week, the government was rattled by a GST debate that had run wild, agitating backbenchers and causing the government to pause.
If the government eventually decides against embracing a 15% GST, we might look back and conclude that the mortal blow was delivered this week.
At the start of a frenetic year for independent Nick Xenophon, the South Australian senator says his new national political party, the Nick Xenophon Team, will fill a vacuum.
When Malcolm Turnbull addressed his party room on Tuesday, he had a double message.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Visiting Professor of Tax Law, New York University, and Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor Australian Institute for Business and Economics, University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Taxation and Commercial Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Emeritus Professor of Taxation, UNSW
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne