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[Budget Forum 2022] Petrol Excise Cut in the Budget! What About the Transition to Zero-Emission Cars?

The fossil fuel excise has been cut by 50% in the Federal Budget, effective from 30 March 2022 and will continue for the next six… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2022] For Social Infrastructure and Tax Reform, We Need a New Federal Fiscal Bargain

New South Wales Treasurer Matt Kean has been loudly calling out failures of expenditure by the Commonwealth, as we head into budget and election season… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2022] A Free Lunch From Government Debt? It Certainly Looks That Way

In some ways, the Budget to be brought down on March 29 will look as if the Covid pandemic never happened. The Stage 3 tax… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2022] On the Limits of Fiscal Financing in Australia

The three decades of uninterrupted economic growth and the years of fiscal surpluses are over. Australia, along with the rest of the world, faces unprecedented… Read More ›

There Has Been Plenty of Rain, Do We Need a Water Tax?

The extreme flooding in early March 2022 badly impacted communities north and south of Brisbane and around Sydney. During that same period in March, Melbourne… Read More ›