Rich Thinking: Canberra Bubble wage delusions spawn a bizarre plan to flatten taxesBy Elizabeth Minter | September 24, 2020Forget the "average" wage, half of working Australians earn less than $57,000 a year. Rich think they are poor, ...
Dirty money leaks shine a spotlight on kleptocrats devouring our economyBy Nathan Lynch | September 22, 2020An unprecedented leak of thousands of files from the US government’s most confidential financial intelligence ...
Advance Australia Unfair: tax cuts to favour men over women, old over young, rich over poorBy Elizabeth Minter | September 21, 2020Women and young people have borne the brunt of the Covid Crisis. They are set to lose again when the Government ...
Ugly numbers of Trump’s tax cuts serve a warning for Scott MorrisonBy David Cay Johnston | September 18, 2020Radical Republicans rammed the Trump tax law through Congress without a single hearing or Democratic vote. The ...
Sour grapes: China in muddle over claims Australian producers are dumping wineBy Marcus Reubenstein | August 24, 2020There’s little evidence that Australian wine makers are dumping their product, so it appears China’s latest threat ...
Taxes are not a burden: they provide many of the good things in lifeBy Michael Keating | August 19, 2020Coalition spending over the past six years has been nearly half that of the past 40 years and is forecast to drop ...
Snouts in the superannuation trough: turbo-charging Paul Keating’s legacyBy Harry Chemay | August 18, 2020Three million Australians have applied for early release of super, with $30 billion already paid out and more than ...
Land Banking: red tape and a dearth of housing supply are a mythBy Cameron Murray | August 14, 2020Developers limit construction in all sorts of ways to maximise profits – from building in stages to reducing the ...
Jeffrey Knapp on John Lennon and the Big 4: give public interest a chanceBy Jeffrey Knapp | August 6, 2020KPMG and the other Big Four audit firms are at a crossroads. Their work with multinational clients to skirt ...
Are Thatcherism and Reaganomics your best answers, Josh?By Roger Beale | July 28, 2020Thatcherism and Reaganomics led to huge transfers of income and wealth from the poor to the rich. Increasing the ...
Australia’s super funds pay up to 33% less tax than advertisedBy Callum Foote | July 20, 2020The tax paid by superannuation funds on their earnings is often less than 10%, much lower than the headline rate ...
Mathias Cormann leaves a legacy of losses as Finance MinisterBy Alan Austin | July 10, 2020On nearly every economic indicator of wellbeing, Australians have gone backwards in the past six years of the ...
Rich Thinking: Canberra Bubble wage delusions spawn a bizarre plan to flatten taxesBy Elizabeth Minter | September 24, 2020Forget the "average" wage, half of working Australians earn less than $57,000 a year. Rich think they are poor, ...
Dirty money leaks shine a spotlight on kleptocrats devouring our economyBy Nathan Lynch | September 22, 2020An unprecedented leak of thousands of files from the US government’s most confidential financial intelligence ...
Advance Australia Unfair: tax cuts to favour men over women, old over young, rich over poorBy Elizabeth Minter | September 21, 2020Women and young people have borne the brunt of the Covid Crisis. They are set to lose again when the Government ...
Ugly numbers of Trump’s tax cuts serve a warning for Scott MorrisonBy David Cay Johnston | September 18, 2020Radical Republicans rammed the Trump tax law through Congress without a single hearing or Democratic vote. The ...
Sour grapes: China in muddle over claims Australian producers are dumping wineBy Marcus Reubenstein | August 24, 2020There’s little evidence that Australian wine makers are dumping their product, so it appears China’s latest threat ...
Taxes are not a burden: they provide many of the good things in lifeBy Michael Keating | August 19, 2020Coalition spending over the past six years has been nearly half that of the past 40 years and is forecast to drop ...
Snouts in the superannuation trough: turbo-charging Paul Keating’s legacyBy Harry Chemay | August 18, 2020Three million Australians have applied for early release of super, with $30 billion already paid out and more than ...
Land Banking: red tape and a dearth of housing supply are a mythBy Cameron Murray | August 14, 2020Developers limit construction in all sorts of ways to maximise profits – from building in stages to reducing the ...
Jeffrey Knapp on John Lennon and the Big 4: give public interest a chanceBy Jeffrey Knapp | August 6, 2020KPMG and the other Big Four audit firms are at a crossroads. Their work with multinational clients to skirt ...
Are Thatcherism and Reaganomics your best answers, Josh?By Roger Beale | July 28, 2020Thatcherism and Reaganomics led to huge transfers of income and wealth from the poor to the rich. Increasing the ...
Australia’s super funds pay up to 33% less tax than advertisedBy Callum Foote | July 20, 2020The tax paid by superannuation funds on their earnings is often less than 10%, much lower than the headline rate ...
Mathias Cormann leaves a legacy of losses as Finance MinisterBy Alan Austin | July 10, 2020On nearly every economic indicator of wellbeing, Australians have gone backwards in the past six years of the ...