Alarm sounded over long-term effects of tax cuts
Independent MPs are calling for the government to take on wide-ranging tax reform as debate turns to how much new tax cuts will cost workers over the decade.
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Grattan / Cigarettes tax hike bipartisan but $19.5 billion hole in Labor costings
THE government has found a A$19.5 billion hole in Labor’s plan to boost tobacco excise…
AFTER a GST increase to finance big income tax cuts disappeared as a viable option…
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Grattan / Shorten targets principals in offensive against Turnbull on government schools
OPPOSITION Leader Bill Shorten on Wednesday will launch a campaign to exploit Malcolm Turnbull’s suggestion…
Grattan / The implosion of Turnbull’s ‘big idea’ will raise further doubts about his substance and style
PREMIERS and chief ministers on Friday delivered a humiliating public blow to Malcolm Turnbull, bluntly…
Grattan on Friday / Turnbull’s idea of Commonwealth withdrawing from funding state schools is fraught
MALCOLM Turnbull is the venture capitalist of politics who, with his bid to force the…
Grattan / Turnbull will need to be nimble to persuade the states to dance his tax tango
BY PROPOSING a dramatic shake-up of income taxing power Malcolm Turnbull has thrown himself into…
JUST when we thought the tax debate was winding down to minimalism, as least as…
CABINET secretary Arthur Sinodinos has made a strong pitch for giving priority to a company…
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Grattan on Friday / Turnbull’s double-dissolution hand could be strengthened by final pitch to crossbench
WHAT might be Malcolm Turnbull’s worst nightmare, apart from losing the election? Scraping back as…
IN the latest example of the government’s cack-handedness, Attorney-General George Brandis on Sunday promised a…
POLITICS has its own purgatory, as Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott might have reflected when…
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra ON Monday, a scarifying account of Tony Abbott’s prime ministership…
WHEN you are Malcolm Turnbull floundering in the heavy seas of tax reform, it is…
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Grattan on Friday / Malcolm Turnbull should announce the government’s tax policy pronto
The Turnbull government desperately needs a circuit breaker. It is in an appalling mess over…
MALCOLM Turnbull has not totally removed changes to capital gains tax from the options on…
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Grattan on Friday / Scott Morrison struggles to stay afloat as he treads water on tax
IF Scott Morrison ever watched Joe Hockey and thought “how much better I could do…
ANDREW Barr says the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has given an endorsement of ACT Labor’s…
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Grattan / Martin Parkinson, Turnbull’s right-hand man, caught in crosshairs on tax
AS MALCOLM Turnbull continues to strike down the prospects of a GST increase being part…
