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Does Means-Testing Child Benefits Hurt or Help Australian Families?

Australia spends roughly 2–2.5% of GDP every year on child-related transfers, a figure comparable to many European welfare states. But unlike much of Europe, where… Read More ›

Housing Belongs in the Inequality Story

Housing is crucial to economic wellbeing, yet it is still often ignored or treated incompletely in the analysis of income inequality. In our new research,… Read More ›

Hidden Subsidies, Missed Opportunities: The Case for Tax Expenditure Management in Australia

This Blog was first published as “Six Decades of Tax Expenditure Identification: Lessons from Australia”, at https://www.taxexpenditures.org/2026/02/18/six-decades-of-tax-expenditure-identification-lessons-from-australia/ and is republished with the permission of the Tax… Read More ›

Fifty Years on from Asprey – A Comparison with New Zealand’s McCaw Review: What Can We Learn?

The Australian and New Zealand governments have intermittently established tax review committees to undertake targeted or broad reviews of their respective tax systems.  Typically, such… Read More ›

Reforming the Taxation of Wealth and Wealth Transfers

This blog post is based on Asprey and the Taxation of Wealth: Where to Next? by Chris Evans, Rick Krever, and Peter Mellor. In the… Read More ›