17 November marked Teck Chi Wong’s last day as project officer of Austaxpolicy. We warmly acknowledge and celebrate Teck Chi’s extraordinary contributions to Austaxpolicy, TTPI, and the academy over more than eight years, and we extend our deepest gratitude and thanks for his exemplary service.

Teck Chi has been integral to the growth and success of Austaxpolicy. He assumed the key role of project officer in 2017, soon after Austaxpolicy’s establishment by Professor Miranda Stewart and Professor Mathias Sinning. Drawing on his journalistic skills, and his expertise on taxes and transfers, public policy, and economics, Teck Chi’s exceptional work has enabled Austaxpolicy to excel in its mission of publishing high-quality, rigorous and timely research on taxes and transfers for the public benefit.

As project officer, Teck Chi has implemented and guided every step in the publication process, and he has made the job of the academic editors very smooth and an absolute pleasure­­­. Most of our articles comprise invited contributions—which have originated in Teck Chi’s thoughtful and meticulous literature searches to identify tax and transfer research of importance to policymakers and the academy. He took the lead in transforming academic articles into accessible and succinct contributions which could be readily understood by a wide audience. Our expert contributors, with whom Teck Chi worked closely, have experienced first-hand his talent, collegiality, and commitment to excellence. Our contributors often convey satisfaction about the beautiful visual presentation of our articles—this being entirely the product of Teck Chi’s creative acumen. Notably, Teck Chi has led and coordinated our annual Budget Forum—Austaxpolicy’s flagship event where we publish an array of expert analyses and insights on the Federal Budget.

Teck Chi has been instrumental in establishing Austaxpolicy as a sophisticated and compelling publisher of tax and transfer research with a very substantial readership in Australasia and abroad. Teck Chi will be greatly missed at TTPI. As he approaches the final stages of his doctoral thesis and embarks on a new chapter, we extend to Teck Chi our heartfelt wishes for success and happiness in the future.

 

Professor Robert Breunig, Associate Professor Sonali Walpola, Ms Helen Ping, Associate Professor John Minas, Dr Todd Morris, Dr Claudio Labanca.

Citation :

Breunig, Robert,  Walpola, Sonali,  Ping, Yuan,  Minas, John,  Morris, Todd  & Labanca, Claudio, (2025),  Our Thanks and Appreciation for Teck Chi Wong’s Outstanding Service,  Austaxpolicy: Tax and Transfer Policy Blog,  25 November 2025, Available from: https://www.austaxpolicy.com/our-thanks-and-appreciation-for-teck-chi-wongs-outstanding-service/

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About the Author

Robert Breunig

Professor Breunig is the Director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU and held the role of Acting Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy in 2015–16. He has worked in a number of important public policy areas including: the relationship between child care and women’s labour supply; the effect of immigration to Australia on the labour market prospects of Australians; and the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.


Sonali Walpola

Dr Sonali Walpola is an Associate Professor at the ANU College of Business and Economics. Sonali's research interests broadly encompass taxation law and policy and the nature of common law developments. Her recent projects have analysed integrity measures to address tax avoidance through trusts, the interpretation of the residence article in double tax agreements, and the Australian High Court's attitude to change in the common law. Sonali is a co-editor of Austaxpolicy, the Journal of Australian Taxation and Law&History, which is the journal of the Australia New Zealand Law History Society. Sonali is a fellow of the ANU Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, a member of The Tax Institute Higher Education Academic Board, and the Academic Lead of the ANU Tax Clinic, which she co-founded in 2019.


Yuan Ping

Yuan (Helen) Ping is a Lecturer in Business and Corporate Law at the Department of Business Law and Taxation of Monash University and a qualified legal practitioner. She is currently completing a PhD at the Research School of Accounting, Australian National University. Helen’s research interests are in the fields of regulatory enforcement and corporate tax behaviour, specifically examining the effects of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s tax-related comment letters on market response and firm policies. She has published papers in the Australian Tax Forum and eJournal of Tax Research. Helen is also the co-editor of Austaxpolicy.


John Minas

John Minas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University, a Research Affiliate with the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, at ANU, and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Law Futures Centre at Griffith University.


Todd Morris

Todd Morris is a Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland and an Economics Editor at AusTaxPolicy. He obtained his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2020. After that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy from 2019 to 2021 and at HEC Montreal from 2022 to 2023. His main research interests are in public and labour economics. A unifying theme to his research is the causal evaluation of government policies (often related to retirement).


Claudio Labanca

Dr Claudio Labanca is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Monash University. His research interests include Labor Economics, Public Economics and Applied Microeconomics. Claudio is a Research Affiliate at the IZA, the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU, SoDa Labs, and is a co-editor of Austaxpolicy. 


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