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National affairs If franking credits and negative gearing didn’t exist, no one would invent them 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 Frankly courageous, shadow minister Peter Brent 12 February 2019 Buoyed by the 2016 election result, Labor has been thinking big — with all the danger that entails Books & arts The real story of Labor’s dividend imputation reforms 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 Curiouser and curiouser: the strange world of the global super-rich 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 Good advice, and puzzling blind spots, in the IMF’s latest report on Australia 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 National affairs Why the ABC was right — eventually Peter Brent 19 February 2018 The mystery is why Emma Alberici’s article was published in the first place National affairs There’s no silver bullet when it comes to housing affordability Brendan Coates 12 January 2018 Treasury’s advice on negative gearing shows why tax reforms alone won’t solve the housing affordability crisis National affairs In search of a national housing strategy Peter Mares 6 December 2017 Canada is showing the way, but the funds need to start flowing — and that means biting the bullet on tax

National affairs The housing affordability trap Saul Eslake 12 May 2016 Falling home ownership rates are bad for households and bad for the economy, writes Saul Eslake. Governments are starting to respond, but much more can be done Essays & reportage Financing government in uncertain times Sam Hurley 22 April 2016 Talking tax is tough. But offering false choices about revenue, spending and globalisation won’t lead to better outcomes, writes Sam Hurley Correspondents Cameron’s tax trauma David Hayes 11 April 2016 The Panama Papers have thwacked Britain’s prime minister. But he’s not out yet, says David Hayes in London National affairs State income tax: the idea that could one day fly Tim Colebatch 31 March 2016 Abolished in 1942, revived but never implemented in the 1970s, this might have been the tax reform whose time had come, writes Tim Colebatch. But Malcolm Turnbull’s…