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Opening the tax reform can of worms
Robert CarlingApril 2, 2015

The current ramshackle tax system is the product of compromises, tinkering, political pragmatism and budget...

MEDIA RELEASE: Financial System Inquiry recommendations contradict tenets of efficiency, resilience and fairness
Patrick CarvalhoMarch 31, 2015

Specific recommendations of the Financial System Inquiry are of concern, as they seem to go...

Car crashes and banking capital levels
Patrick CarvalhoMarch 23, 2015Business Spectator

On March 31 the Treasury closes the formal consultation process on the final report of...

Fair and logical to put super into homes
Patrick CarvalhoMarch 12, 2015Australian Financial Review

Joe Hockey’s suggestion of allowing superannuation to be used for buying the first home has...

Public policy reforms will control our destiny
Patrick CarvalhoMarch 5, 2015Business Spectator

The RBA has decided for now to maintain the benchmark interest rates it pays on...

The third retirement pillar – home equity and pension inequity
Simon CowanNovember 21, 2014

The system for supporting retired Australians is said to rest on three pillars: the age...

Adam Smith and Why He Matters Today
Paul Oslington, David M. HartDecember 7, 2023OP199
Adam Smith, the Scottish philosopher and economist, is one of the most significant figures to...
Debunking Degrowth
Gene TunnySeptember 7, 2023AP54
In a country with a growing population, such as Australia, a policy of degrowth would...
A Future Without Future Funds
Dimitri BurshteinAugust 10, 2023PP52

In 1984, Milton Friedman reminded us that “there is nothing so permanent as a temporary...

The Return of Inflation: What It Means for Australia
Warren HoganFebruary 28, 2022AP33
Inflation is rising around the world, the sting in the tail of the pandemic economic...
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The End of Monetary Policy?
Warren HoganOctober 29, 2020AP16

Monetary policy is not the answer to our economic problems; and central bank actions could...

A Fiscal Vaccine for COVID-19
Tony MakinJune 10, 2020PP30

The fiscal response to the Covid-19 crisis ensures that the federal and state governments will...

When ‘25% off’ is not enough
Robert CarlingMarch 8, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Labor’s plans for negative gearing and dividend franking credit refunds have stirred up a hornet’s...

Principle vs revenue in dividend tax furore
Robert CarlingFebruary 15, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The furore over dividend franking credit refunds is bringing out the worst in our politicians....

Neglect of young people a super problem
Eugenie JosephFebruary 15, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Once again, politics in Canberra has triumphed over good policy — with young Australians the...

Bank culture must be built on moral fibre
Eugenie JosephFebruary 10, 2019The Newcastle Herald

Treating your customers fairly can’t just be a legal obligation, it must become a moral...

Progressives reluctant to recognise poverty progress
Anis RezaeFebruary 8, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Is the declining rate of global poverty simply a neoliberal lie, spread by the likes...

Socialist utopia is complete fantasy
Thomas CoppelJanuary 25, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Views that Australia will turn into a utopia under socialism are wildly uninformed, and that...

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Submission to the inquiry into the Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions and Other Measures Bill
Robert CarlingMay 14, 2024CIS
Submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee in relation to its inquiry into the Better...
Principles and recommendations for tax reform – CIS submission National Reform Summit
Simon Cowan, Robert Carling, Henry ErgasAugust 27, 2015CIS Submission

The slant towards cutting taxes before 2010 was welcome, but for such an approach to...

Submission to the National Commission of Audit
Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan, Stephen Kirchner, Trisha JhaApril 1, 2014T30.08

The federal government’s Commission of Audit (CoA) was established in 2013 to review the performance...

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