Economy
The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers
Australia can be a leader in this space, not a follower.
Factcheck: Do nurses pay more tax than oil and gas companies in Australia?
To address the housing crisis, the ACTU has proposed a series of tax reforms. But is it true that nurses pay more tax than oil and gas companies in Australia?
When targeting inflation, the RBA misses more often than it hits
With the fight against high inflation now over, will the Reserve Bank fail to learn the lessons of the past and allow inflation to fall below 2%?
Private health insurance is for the rich – the rest would rather better public health
ATO figures show that private health insurance is favoured by the rich and it should be subject to GST.
A fair go for temporary workers from the Pacific
On a whistlestop tour of Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu in May, Foreign Minister Penny Wong wanted to focus on climate change, security, and aid funding.
One way to improve the 'dumpster fire of dumb stuff' which is Australia’s housing policy
Everyone agrees we need to do something about housing in Australia. But first we need to ask a very obvious, but often ignored question: what is housing is for?
Press Conference: "Big gas is taking the piss"
More than half of gas exported from Australia attracts zero royalty payments, effectively giving a public resource to multinational gas corporations for free.
National Press Club Address: Australia’s tax dilemma: the case for real reform
Australia is a low tax country. If we were to collect the average amount of tax collected by OECD countries then this year, we would have to collect more than an extra $100 billion. Per year.
