Grasp the nettle of tax reform

The Albanese government can sit on its landslide win at the last election and enjoy the opposition’s self-destruction or it can finally grasp the nettle of reform to assure Australia’s future, including rebalancing our income tax system.

Grasping the nettle of tax reform

Australians have been promised quick-fix tax measures to ease cost-of-living pressures. Instead, it’s high time to reform and simplify a complex tax system.

Mixed fortunes

Australia’s history is sprinkled with attempts at tax reform which enjoyed varying degrees of success. A new book, Mixed Fortunes, explores these efforts at substantive change in our tax system from the establishment of the Australian Constitution at Federation in 1901 to the major tax reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the lack of tax reform today, despite fundamental economic changes.