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The plan to restrict importation of some food items could raise food prices. Cristina Aldehuela/AFP via Getty Images

January 22, 2024

Ghana wants to make importing food like rice and tomatoes more costly: expert explains why it’s a bad idea

Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, University of Guelph

Ghana’s industries need fewer production constraints and more incentives to compete domestically.

Part of the Chevron Gorgon LNG project (under construction), Barrow Island, Western Australia. Ray Strange/AAP

May 1, 2018

The government could be boosting the budget bottom line with a change to how it taxes gas

Diane Kraal, Monash University

A small change in the method for valuing gas would increase revenue from the petroleum resource rent tax by US$15.5 billion to 2030, compared to the current US$5 billion to 2030.

MYEFO is more positive about the 2016-17 budget bottom line than previous expectations. However, projections over the forward estimates have worsened. Lukas Coch/AAP

December 19, 2016

2016-17 MYEFO experts’ response: more of the same is not good enough

Ben Phillips, Australian National University; Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute; Janine Dixon, Victoria University; John Daley, Grattan Institute, and Sinclair Davidson, RMIT University

While MYEFO discussion focuses on the budget deficit, experts say it also serves as a stark reminder of the need for bigger policy ideas in Canberra.

The Abbott government is preparing to give Australians a tax cut, but Treasurer Joe Hockey seems confused as to just how much tax we pay. Dean Lewins/AAP

January 20, 2015

The truth about bracket creep and Hockey’s tax tales

Ben Phillips, University of Canberra

Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey claims taxpayers are already paying 50 cents in the dollar of their income to the government and that bracket creep will push the average income earner into the second top…

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