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[Budget Forum 2020] Training Subsidies and Market Failures

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] Getting Coherence into the Equity Debate – Part 3

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 2

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 1

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] What Has Volunteering Got to Do With the Budget?

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 ›