Thursday, September 25, 2025
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View from The Hill: A tax cut that will ‘pay your rego’

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The Turnbull government has produced a budget that it hopes it can sell as appealing for voters while appearing fiscally responsible. Its income tax cuts target lower and middle earners in...
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Infographic: Budget 2018 at a glance

Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Jenni Henderson, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, The Conversation Jenni Henderson, Section Editor: Business + Economy, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, Deputy Multimedia Editor, The Conversation This article was originally published on...
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Eight charts on our growing tax problem: what abandoning tax reform means for taxpayers

Eight charts on our growing tax problem: what abandoning tax reform means for taxpayers Rebecca Cassells, Curtin University and Alan Duncan, Curtin University As we move closer to Treasurer Scott Morrison’s third budget, what we do...
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History repeats: how O’Farrell and Greiner fell foul of ICAC

In April 2014, the New South Wales Independent Commission into Corruption (ICAC) claimed its biggest political scalp in two decades. Liberal state premier Barry O’Farrell resigned after what he has described as a “massive...
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The financial sector is professional gambling in action

The financial sector is professional gambling in action Shutterstock/f8studio Chris Brady, University of Salford The American journalist and poet Ambrose Bierce wrote in his 1906 satire The Devil’s Dictionary that “the gambling known as business looks with...
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Revealed: the extent of job-swapping between public servants and fossil fuel lobbyists

This was the same firm that Robb had publicly defended when it controversially acquired a 99-year lease for the Port of Darwin in 2015. Two years after clinching a historic free trade deal with Beijing,...
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The truth about political donations: there is so much we don’t know

The truth about political donations: there is so much we don't know AEC disclosures revealed Malcolm Turnbull to be the single biggest donor to a political party in 2016-17. AAP/Dan Peled Lindy Edwards, UNSW The big story about...
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The revolving door: why politicians become lobbyists, and lobbyists become politicians

In March 2016 the Department of the Chief Minister said the $506 million included stamp duty, but Mr Giles has declined to clarify how much. "I'm not going to go down the breakdown of taxes...
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