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Budget Forum 2017: No Super Fix to Housing, or to Super

The relationship between retirement income and housing has long been acknowledged. In fact, the family home is sometimes referred to as the fourth pillar of… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017: Changes to HECS-HELP and University Funding

Budgets are always contextual and reactions to them will be relative to both alternatives and the status quo. The natural comparison of the 2017/18 changes… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017: Federal Budget Is Politically Pragmatic But Economically Risky

The 2017-18 federal budget delivered this week was politically pragmatic and clever (not tricky), but economically risky. It looks as though Malcolm Turnbull and his… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017: Bank Levy – A Tax in Search of a Rationale

The Bank Levy announced by Treasurer Morrison in the May 2017 Budget, to start on 1 July 2017, is estimated to raise $1.6 billion per… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017: A Budget That Invests in Evidence?

When we look at Federal Budgets, it is hard to not get overwhelmed by the sheer scale of some of the announcements. A few billion… Read More ›