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Aged care
Aged care cost blowout won’t be solved by higher taxes
Simon CowanJune 17, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

This week Labor’s Aged Care Minister floated the idea of an ‘aged care levy’ to...

Taming inflation
Wages can be a great threat to taming inflation
Simon CowanJune 3, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

Reports this week that inflation has again increased to 6.8% for the year to April...

Why Jim Chalmers cannot shy away from stage three tax cuts
Simon CowanMay 20, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

As foreshadowed by some commentators prior to the budget, the Treasurer doubled down on his...

Three ways that Chalmers’ budget fiddled with the numbers
Robert CarlingMay 17, 2023AFR

There is nothing new in Treasurers stretching the truth to justify their claims to gold-medal...

Welfare looms as a budget no-win for Chalmers
Simon CowanMay 8, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

We are now in the rapid run-up to next week’s budget, with each day bringing...

Why it’s a myth that Australia is a low-taxing country
Robert CarlingMay 2, 2023AFR

Taxation statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics last week were quite startling in...

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