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National Affairs Peter Mares 27 August 2021 Timid governments need shaking up — and the pressure won’t come from the top
National Affairs John Daley 27 July 2021 A hardening of shibboleths is eating away at good government National Affairs Charles Livingstone 22 July 2021 Submissions to the Victorian royal commission add to a powerful case against the once-burgeoning company National Affairs Adam Triggs 24 May 2021 Concerns that the government’s post-pandenic debt will need to be repaid by future generations don’t stack up National Affairs Tim Colebatch 21 May 2021 Despite a booming state economy, the Victorian government plans even more stimulus
National Affairs Tim Colebatch 12 May 2021 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and his colleagues have avoided hard decisions about how the government taxes and spends
National Affairs Danielle Wood, with Brendan Coates and Tom Crowley 21 April 2021 Does focusing on the gender gap in retirement incomes miss the bigger picture? National Affairs Adam Triggs 12 April 2021 US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen is proposing a global minimum corporate tax rate. Criticisms of her long-overdue plan don’t stack up National Affairs Saul Eslake 22 March 2021 Labor is under pressure to wave through tax cuts that will make the tax system less progressive — and don’t stack up economically National Affairs Mike Steketee 5 February 2021 The superannuation guarantee shouldn’t rise until the system is made fairer
National Affairs Adam Triggs 12 October 2020 The assumption that Australia will experience a quick recovery has produced a budget that’s big on spending but low on stimulus
National Affairs Tristan Edis 2 October 2020 By 2030, according to the government’s own figures, Australia will have spent three decades making almost no progress in reducing emissions National Affairs Adam Triggs 7 September 2020 The proposed tax cuts are a weak form of stimulus that would create more problems than they solve. There are better options National Affairs Adam Triggs 1 June 2020 Breaking self-perpetuating cycles of rising inequality will be key to Australia’s economic recovery National Affairs Adam Triggs 27 April 2020 Post–Covid-19 economic reforms will fail without a national political framework to get them done
National Affairs Adam Triggs 13 March 2020 The government has learned some — but not all — of the lessons of the global financial crisis
National Affairs Peter Mares 2 September 2019 The federal government made it clear at the National Housing Conference that significant new spending isn’t likely National Affairs Owain Emslie and Danielle Wood 8 August 2019 Despite the scare campaigns, an inheritance tax makes a lot of economic sense National Affairs Peter Mares 7 June 2019 Part of Labor’s housing strategy could be adapted to lift affordability, and might just appeal to the government National Affairs Brendan Coates & Danielle Wood 14 May 2019 Election 2019 | Turn the argument around the other way, and the defenders of the status quo are on even shakier ground
National Affairs Peter Brent 12 February 2019 Buoyed by the 2016 election result, Labor has been thinking big — with all the danger that entails
From the archive Brendan Coates & Danielle Wood 3 February 2019 Grattan Institute researchers show who wins and who loses from Labor’s hotly debated tax policy Books & Arts Carmela Chivers 9 November 2018 To deal with industrial-scale tax evasion we might need to make our own foray down the rabbit hole National Affairs Tim Colebatch 27 June 2018 On top of a misconceived ad campaign, the opposition leader left a needless hostage to fortune National Affairs Abul Rizvi 21 June 2018 Will Peter Dutton’s high-stakes gamble wrong-foot the government on tax cuts?
National Affairs John Daley 8 June 2018 The debate about the Turnbull government’s income tax cuts is being sidetracked by misconceptions
National Affairs Peter Whiteford 1 June 2018 Critics say that high earners are paying too much tax. What does the evidence say? National Affairs Tim Colebatch 9 May 2018 Why has the government chosen to fight the next election on weak ground? National Affairs Brendan Coates & Danielle Wood 9 May 2018 To deliver tax cuts and budget surpluses the treasurer will need to stay lucky National Affairs Tim Colebatch 23 February 2018 The International Monetary Fund gets some things right and some things wrong — but you wouldn’t necessarily know which from the coverage it’s had