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By Guest Poster on August 23, 2010
Ben Harris-Roxas is a Research Fellow at the UNSW Research Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity. When he’s not talking about health impact assessment he makes a nuisance of himself on Twitter: @ben_hr. The entrails of the weekend’s result [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Policy | Tagged ben harris-roxas, electoral reform, Henry Tax review, hung parliament, Independents, Julia Gillard, parliamentary reform, process, public policy, Rob Oakeshott |
By Brian on June 30, 2010
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Of course, that’s the famous quatrain [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Government, Health, Politics, Water | Tagged education revolution, emissions trading system, G20, Henry Tax review, homelessness, Kevin Rudd, kyoto protocol, Murray Basin Authority, national curriculum, National Organ Transplant Authority, pacific solution, paid parental leave, regional cancer centres, renewable energy target, school libraries, social housing, stolen generations, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, trade centres, WorkChoices |
By Brian on June 29, 2010
Yesterday we had the SMH version of the modifications to the RSPT: …The rate at which a super profit is defined would increase from 6 per cent to 11 per cent. The government would drop $1 billion in exploration rebates [...]
Posted in Energy, Federal Elections, Politics | Tagged Henry Tax review, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, mining industry, rspt, tax policy |
By Robert Merkel on May 2, 2010
The Henry Tax review should be out this afternoon, presumably available from their website. Peter Martin has a series of posts on the issue that should fill the intervening hours if you just can’t wait. Aside from the foreshadowing of [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics, WA Government | Tagged compulsory superannuation, Henry review, Henry Tax review, Ken Henry, superannuation, tax, taxation |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 1, 2010
Whether or not it’s a coincidence that the first of Tony Abbott’s ‘headland speeches’ was on economic policy and was delivered the day after Newspoll showed the Coalition falling behind Labor on economic management, I don’t know. But, given that [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Politics | Tagged asian currency crisis, budget, Coalition, cuts, economic management, economic policy, Economics, fiscal policy, GFC, global financial crisis, headland speeches, Henry Tax review, Joe Hockey, John Howard, Keynes, Lateline, levies, Liberal Party, opposition, parental leave, Peter Costello, spending, stimulus, tax, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 25, 2010
The departure of Nick Minchin from the frontbench has been accompanied by speculation that Tony Abbott should move Barnaby Joyce from Finance to Energy and Resources, the portfolio Minchin had occupied. Joyce is said to have expertise in this area, [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Christopher Pearson, economic management, economic policy, finance, Henry Tax review, ideology, liberalism, National Broadband Network, Nick Minchin, resources rent, schools, social democracy, statism, stimulus, tax, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 23, 2010
A summary of Ken Henry’s tax review can be read at Peter Martin’s blog. The report’s emphasis changed a fair deal along the way, a topic treated of by Martin in another post. If you’ve been wondering why Kevin Rudd’s [...]
Posted in Government, Policy, Politics | Tagged Coalition, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, Henry review, Henry Tax review, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Peter Martin, political communication, population, rent, resources, Rudd government, superannuation, tax, tax policy, Treasury, welfare |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2008
I haven’t had time to even glance at the paper that the Henry Review released yesterday as the first step in its comprehensive review of the taxation and welfare transfer systems. It’s available here on the web in pdf form. [...]
Posted in Economics | Tagged Henry Tax review, labor party, Rudd government, tax architecture, tax system, welfare tranfer payments |
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