Making it easier for holidaying backpackers to work on Australian farms will make it harder for Pacific Islanders, and increase exploitation on farms.
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Its extremely common, everywhere, for large numbers of people to pay no net tax. It tells us nothing about the size of the welfare state or about whether it bribes people to keep tax high.
The U.S. is not the only country worried about foreign influence over its elections. Australia is concerned too, and taking steps Americans could learn from.
Introducing yet another special agricultural employment visa might destroy the good things about the ones we’ve got.
An international report has found there’s no future for Australia’s coal exports.
The press said the Productivity Commission found that all of us are better off. It didn’t.
The final design of the National Energy Guarantee promises that the policy will drive down power prices. But there is precious little evidence for this assertion.
From the 20th-century process of policy trial and error, the nations that married the strengths of markets and government came out ahead.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest analysis of the impact of government benefits and taxes on household income shows this reduces income inequality by more than 40% in Australia.
An 85-95% effective marginal tax rate means the second earner in a low-income family can increase from two days’ work a week to three, four or five days and be better off by only about $4,000 a year.
Simulation models show just how effectively fake news and propaganda can shift opinions.
When it comes to incomes, millennials in Australia haven’t fallen behind.
Tarif listrik tidak akan naik hingga akhir 2019, tahun pemilihan presiden. Padahal penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pemangkasan subsidi listrik sebelumnya mendorong peningkatan efisiensi pemakaian listrik.
Indonesia will freeze electricity prices until the end of 2019, a presidential election year. Research shows that earlier cuts to electricity subsidies led to improved efficiency in electricity use.
In it’s first inclusion in the Open Budget Index of 115 countries, Australia ranks 12th.
A cut in the Australian company tax rate to 25 or even 20% is important because it will attract foreign investment, boosting wages and the economy in Australia
‘Virtual power plants’ offer extra power to the grid by tweaking the operation of batteries and appliances right across the network. But even this might be too blunt a tool for our future energy needs.
Blaming immigration for low wage growth, infrastructure congestion and housing affordability is based on simplistic notions of supply and demand.
New South Wales has pledged to walk away from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, while Victoria’s water minister has declared the plan ‘over’.
A dozen leading researchers have issued an urgent call to action for the Murray-Darling Basin, arguing that the billions spent on water-efficient irrigation have done little for the rivers’ health.
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Visiting Fellow and Director – Micro heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Performance program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Economist, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Australian Laureate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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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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Professor in the practice of public policy and antitrust, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
