In the Howard government, there was near-consensus in Cabinet that an ETS was eventually likely. A spike in asylum-seeker arrivals stimulated the hard "deterrent’ strategy" that would morph into the "Pacific Solution" in 2001.
Tasmania gets more of its revenue from "bad taxes" than any state or territory other than Victoria, and less from "good taxes" than anywhere other than Queensland.
Finance Minister and Labour finance spokesperson Grant Robertson: higher tax revenue will be spent on economic recovery.
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All the polls suggested the Keating government would be finished at the 1993 election – until Opposition Leader John Hewson launched a 650-page policy document called "Fightback!".
Forget the low hanging fruit, for the Coalition tax reform might have well been forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden.
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Robert Breunig, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University and Kristen Sobeck, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Six years of Coalition government has had little impact on the tax system. It's not clear whether a Labor government would be any different.
The Morrison and Berejiklian governments might be of the same stripe but, with both facing elections in the first half of 2019, their interests rub up against each other uncomfortably.
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the legislation would be introduced in the next parliamentary sitting week.
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NSW Liberal Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said after the meeting that “all states and territories put forward the strong view” the bill must include this.
The Labor party has announced roundtables in cities and towns that haven’t been visited by the banking royal commission.
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As speculation mounts there will be another leadership challenge sooner rather than later, the government has finally lost its bid to award tax cuts to big companies.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has revealed changes to how GST revenue will be allocated to states.
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To make a concession to the coal lobby would flout the technology-neutral foundation of the NEG and have much more serious implications than throwing in some money to boost the GST pool.
When details started leaking late Wednesday Malcolm Turnbull quickly declared its proposed model had been rejected.
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The government's plan released by Treasurer Scott Morrison on Thursday, would ensure the fiscal capacity of all states and territories was "at least the equal of NSW or Victoria, whichever is higher".