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Discussions of tax usually focus on tax rates, not on tax bases. But both offer possibilities to increase the total tax take.
Vanuatu’s tourism industry has taken a beating from Cyclone Pam, but prospective visitors shouldn’t think that will be the case long-term.
We found that without state-owned electricity revenues, the NSW Coalition government would have struggled to avoid recording deficits in every budget since its election in 2011.
If all researchers were required to serve time on an ethics committee, not only would the system look entirely different, human research subjects might get greater protection.
Those currently depending on the minimum wage and penalty rates would be hit by any reduction - but overall, there may be a net social gain.
A line-up of former prime ministers stake their rival claims to making Australia great, in a new series by journalist George Megalogenis.
The sentences handed to insider traders Lukas Kamay and Christopher Hill send a strong message, but preventing the opportunity for such crimes to occur is just as important.
If every policy decision must pass the ‘fairness test’, will Australia end up making unfair decisions?
It makes sense for Australia to join Britain and New Zealand in the newly created AIIB, but it’s unlikely we will have any significant influence over the organisation.
Finance backgrounds have traditionally been the preferred skills for an aspiring chief executive. But in the age of Big Data, that may be changing.
Australia has a history of over-predicting the usage of roads, a fact worth remembering when you hear the NSW government say 120,000 cars a day will use Stage 3 of the WestConnex.
Once the world’s factory, China is shooting up the innovation rankings. There are important lessons there for Australia.
Australia’s rising number of pensioners leaves the government conflicted on pensions and how they are indexed.
Privatising public assets is like a tradesperson selling her or his tools when facing a temporary income shortfall. Much better to borrow at low interest rates and productively invest those funds.
The policy solution to the ageing population laid out in the Intergenerational Report benefits the better-off in the future over the less well-off today.
Australia’s retirement income system is unsustainable, and there seems little political appetite to tackle the big issues.
Linking population growth with productivity and labour participation is problematic, just one of many questionable assumptions made in the Intergenerational Report.
As the US and UK look to the opportunities presented by cybersecurity, Australia is still dealing with a critical skills shortage.
The fact is, people do not always behave dispassionately and logically. Which is why measuring consumer sentiment matters.
Without workplace reform, Australia is at risk of a US-style migrant worker problem.
It would seem odd that the guesses of a random collection of people inform economic policy. But there’s more to consumer sentiment than that.
A security rethink is required for protecting critical infrastructure - and it relies on accepting not all attacks can be prevented.
If we accept that the rich should subsidise the poor, then Gen Y should be subsidising the baby boomers.
The Productivity Commission appears to want to steer public debate on the minimum wage in a particular direction.