Women have been highly critical of the male dominated focus of the 2020-21 Budget. Although the Budget Speech acknowledged that women were disproportionately affected by… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Economic Stimulus through a Gender Lens: Why the Budget Did Not Deliver

Studies seeking to measure inequality across households typically use a methodology which produces results that we argue are seriously misleading if they are intended to… Read More ›

How Equivalized Household Incomes Are Misinforming Tax and Transfer Policy

Income tax progressivity has been an entrenched characteristic of Australia’s personal income tax system, meaning that the average rate of tax (the total tax paid… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Progressivity and the Personal Income Tax Plan

The 2020-21 Commonwealth Budget contained several temporary subsidy schemes to increase the employment and workforce skills of young people. Schemes included the JobMaker Hiring Credit… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Training Subsidies and Market Failures

In Parts 1 and 2, I used three desirable attributes (equity, efficiency and simplicity) of a coherent tax and transfer system to assess the 2020-21… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Getting Coherence into the Equity Debate – Part 3

In Part 1, I used three desirable attributes (equity, efficiency and simplicity) of a coherent tax and transfer system to assess the 2020-21 personal income… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Getting Coherence into the Equity Debate – Part 2

As governments have made the tax and transfers system increasingly complicated, it is getting more difficult to provide an overview of the distributional impact and… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Getting Coherence into the Equity Debate – Part 1

The 2019-20 bushfires and the current COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated again the critical role of volunteers to our nation’s resilience and wellbeing. Volunteer firefighters were… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] What Has Volunteering Got to Do With the Budget?

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