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Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship

POLITICS
Mike Sandiford, University of Melbourne In case you had forgotten, electricity prices were a really big deal in the last federal election campaign in 2013, albeit often disguised under the rubric of axe the tax. Then Coalition spokesmen quite deliberately and repeatedly conflated the term carbon tax with electricity tax. Clearly,...
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Selling the family jewels. Privatisation a clear picture

POLITICS
The following is an excerpt from a report on privatisation commissioned by The Unitarian Church of East Melbourne prepared and written by Henrike Brussaard and Bronwyn Price, with the support of Prof. Rob Watts (RMIT University). It is the first in a series of reports designed “to promote and...
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Election FactCheck: have 50,000 full-time jobs been lost this year and are over a million people underemployed?

POLITICS
Alan Duncan, Curtin University and Rebecca Cassells, Curtin University On their watch… 50,000 full-time jobs have been lost this year alone. Over one million Australians are underemployed. – Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, speech to Queensland Labor Business Breakfast, June 8, 2016. As he launched Labor’s economic plan in Brisbane, Opposition Leader...
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Election FactCheck Q&A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?

POLITICS
Saul Eslake, University of Tasmania The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email. This nation, when you look at what we give...
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Gas projects tipped to come up empty on tax payments

POLITICS
Revenue Academic raises alarm Heath Aston: Political correspondent, SMH The contribution to federal tax revenues from multinational oil and gas companies has slumped and a senior academic has warned that the mega gas projects coming online off the Western Australian coast will not contribute a single dollar in royalty payments ‘‘in...
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Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent – on social policy

OPINION
Eva Cox, University of Technology Sydney As we enter the business end of the election campaign, with pre-polling underway, there is a profound lack of any social welfare policies on offer from either major party. The Greens have now put up proposals, mainly to raise the levels of some of...
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How the Property Council is shaping the debate around negative gearing, taxes

BUSINESS
Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney and Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney We see their spokespeople quoted in the papers and their ads on TV, but beyond that we know very little about how Australia’s lobby groups get what they want. This series shines a light on the strategies, political alignment...
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Singapore to out multinationals shifting profits

POLITICS
Multinationals suspected of routing Australian profits through Singapore will be outed to tax authorities, with the low-tax nation this week signing up to the global plan to fight tax evasion. Companies including big miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto as well as technology giants Apple and Google, have admitted...
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Tax avoidance tactics laid bare: PwC tells multinationals ‘read the play’

POLITICS
The proposed voluntarily tax transparency code announced in the May budget is not worth the piece of paper it is written on. The code is all about spin rather than substance, aimed at helping multinationals come up with better messaging, rather than giving the public an honest account of their...
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State of the states: New South Wales and the issues resounding in bellwether seats

POLITICS
Gregory Melleuish, University of Wollongong Ahead of polling day on July 2, our State of the states series takes stock of the key issues, seats and policies affecting the vote in each of Australia’s states and territories. We begin today with a look at Queensland and New South Wales. Elections in...
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