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A flat rate bank deposit tax could be distorting, and not for the reasons the banks suggest.
Australia has borne the brunt of costs for MH370. But there are fairer ways to apportion costs for future searches.
The issue of how to measure capital gains in “real terms” - that is, over the years they arose, rather than over a financial year, is at the heart of capital gains reform.
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told the Q&A audience last week that a lot of cafes and restaurants are closing because of Sunday penalty rates. Is that supported by the evidence?
Commercial television broadcasters are no longer solely concerned about TV content being viewed on TV sets.
China’s actions around the yuan are less dramatic than they have been portrayed. But what’s behind the drop is the major worry for Australia.
Australians are used to casual work, but there’s not yet any evidence the gig economy is taking off.
The Productivity Commission’s proposed industrial relations reform goes after unions, but will generally affect the non-unionised workforce most.
Treasurer Joe Hockey is right when he says Australia’s taxation level is the second highest among OECD countries. But when it is compared to GDP, it’s a different story.
The US may not like it, but by devaluing the yuan the People’s Bank of China has done what longtime critics of China’s currency policy have long been clamouring for.
The tax treatment of Bitcoin has been holding back the industry in Australia, but gradually the rules are changing.
The issues keeping those on low incomes out of the housing market are only getting worse over time.
Investors may not like it but Australian banks have been given little choice by the prudential regulator other than to undertake capital raisings.
Do the unelected super-rich exercise an over-weening influence on public policy. The answer is yes, and no.
The unbundling of content stands to hurt Pay TV providers the most.
China can go into the 2022 Winter Olympics with a sense of ‘been there, done that’.
Australian regulator ASIC has significant power to help it stamp out systemic fraud in the banking sector. Now they just need to use it.
The court decision to halt the Carmichael mine is a setback for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani - but does he really need the coal mine at all?
Start-ups have always found it hard to navigate compliance requirements, but this time regulators are listening.
Media players are jostling for a piece of the lucrative sports broadcast market, but a lot can happen in two years.
Echoes of WorkChoices? The Coalition is keen to avoid any whiff of the failed policy, but some of the Productivity Commission’s recommendations have a strong flavour of it.
Sunday penalty rates will go under Productivity Commission recommendations, but overall our workplace system was basically operating well, it found.
Financial journalism standards have been declining, and with each new financial downturn the public has been ill served.