Introduction This paper is a further developed version of the author’s submission to the Treasury consultation on the federal government’s …
Introduction Up to the May 2022 federal election, the official line on fiscal policy was that the federal budget was …
The so-called ‘Trussonomics’ of Liz Truss’s short-lived and ill-fated premiership were based on an ignorance of the true discipline of …
The backdrop to the forthcoming federal and state budgets for 2022/23 is that Australia’s public debt has increased sharply during the pandemic since 2019 — and is projected to increase further.
In response to the economic contraction of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal and state governments have dramatically expanded the scope …
The fiscal response to the Covid-19 crisis ensures that the federal and state governments will experience large budget deficits and …
The strength of Australia’s government finances is an important dimension of economic performance as it helps set the foundations for …
Treasury modelling of the government’s tax changes make the strange assumption of no behavioural change, leading them to ignore economic …
Superannuation is not a good deal for everyone. As a result of house prices increases, it has become much harder …
The centrepiece of the 2019/20 budget was a proposed doubling of the income tax cuts that were legislated last year. …
The NSW budget on September 19 will be the first big policy test of the state’s new Labor government. The …
In a political world obsessed with the ultra-short term, the 2023 Intergenerational Report (IGR) launched this week is a somewhat …
This week Labor’s Aged Care Minister floated the idea of an ‘aged care levy’ to help fund the sector’s spiralling …
As foreshadowed by some commentators prior to the budget, the Treasurer doubled down on his softly, softly approach to fiscal …
There is nothing new in Treasurers stretching the truth to justify their claims to gold-medal fiscal management, but the latest …
We are now in the rapid run-up to next week’s budget, with each day bringing a new announcement as the …
Taxation statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics last week were quite startling in a way that weakens the …
Before Treasurer Jim Chalmers courted controversy with his essay on “values-based capitalism”, he foreshadowed — in the government’s first budget …
In recent weeks, as debate has raged over Treasurer Jim Chalmers Monthly essay on capitalism while inflation soars and mortgage …
We should take proposals to raise taxes seriously — not least because the Labor party has shown a fondness for …