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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.
Both major parties refuse to grasp the nettle of New Zealand's narrow and inherently unfair tax base.
Going GST-free for six months would cost the budget $35 billion. Very little of it would be wasted.
Boosting the GST and swapping land tax for stamp duty get headlines, but they never seem to happen.
two leading economists on Australia’s post-COVID economy.
Michelle Grattan discusses the economic future of Australia post-COVID with economists Richard Holden and Warwick McKibbin
We are failing to collect and giving away in tax concessions hundreds of billions.
The introduction of the GST got off to a wobbly start, but has since become accepted as the Australian way of paying for things.
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!".
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.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
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.
NSW Liberal Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said after the meeting that “all states and territories put forward the strong view” the bill must include this.
Shorten's extra royal commission hearings and legislating the GST carve-up.
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.
The unknown loser is who pays for the additional Commonwealth funding.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Mark Evans about the week in Australian politics.
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.
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".
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director of the Australian Institute For Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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John Daley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of Taxation, UNSW
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, Melbourne CSHE, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Governance and Director of Democracy 2025 - strengthening democratic practice at Old Parliament House, University of Canberra
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Professor of Politics, Curtin University
