National Affairs
14 October 2022
A grown-up conversation about how we fund better services is long overdue
National Affairs
6 September 2022
One big, vital issue was missing from the Jobs and Skills Summit
National Affairs
9 November 2021
Australia needs holistic tax reform for the post-Covid-19 era
Essays & Reportage
14 October 2021
Why is Australia among the few Western countries that don’t tax inheritances?
National Affairs
27 August 2021
Timid governments need shaking up — but the pressure won’t come from the top
National Affairs
27 July 2021
A hardening of shibboleths is eating away at good government
National Affairs
22 July 2021
Submissions to the Victorian royal commission add to a powerful case against the once-burgeoning company
National Affairs
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
21 May 2021
Despite a booming state economy, the Victorian government plans even more stimulus
National Affairs
12 May 2021
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and his colleagues have avoided hard decisions about how the government taxes and spends
National Affairs
21 April 2021
Does focusing on the gender gap in retirement incomes miss the bigger picture?
National Affairs
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
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
5 February 2021
The superannuation guarantee shouldn’t rise until the system is made fairer
National Affairs
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
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
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
1 June 2020
Breaking self-perpetuating cycles of rising inequality will be key to Australia’s economic recovery
National Affairs
27 April 2020
Post–Covid-19 economic reforms will fail without a national political framework to get them done
National Affairs
13 March 2020
The government has learned some — but not all — of the lessons of the global financial crisis
National Affairs
2 September 2019
The federal government made it clear at the National Housing Conference that significant new spending isn’t likely
National Affairs
8 August 2019
Despite the scare campaigns, an inheritance tax makes a lot of economic sense
National Affairs
7 June 2019
Part of Labor’s housing strategy could be adapted to lift affordability, and might just appeal to the government
National Affairs
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
12 February 2019
Buoyed by the 2016 election result, Labor has been thinking big — with all the danger that entails
Books & Arts
3 February 2019
Grattan Institute researchers show who wins and who loses from Labor’s hotly debated tax policy
Books & Arts
9 November 2018
To deal with industrial-scale tax evasion we might need to make our own foray down the rabbit hole
National Affairs
27 June 2018
On top of a misconceived ad campaign, the opposition leader left a needless hostage to fortune
National Affairs
21 June 2018
Will Peter Dutton’s high-stakes gamble wrong-foot the government on tax cuts?
National Affairs
8 June 2018
The debate about the Turnbull government’s income tax cuts is being sidetracked by misconceptions