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Updates and analysis from an Australian taxpayer advocacy group. Recurring subjects include tax and state budgets, free speech and internet regulation, immigration policy, housing supply and the trades, and federal and state political dynamics. Also runs livestreams with guests.
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Recent examples: Can Australia tax its way to prosperity? · NSW’s wind power scam
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Recent posts
- Can Australia tax its way to prosperity?
This evening The Australian Dialogues will host one of their flagship events down in Canberra, asking the question from the title of this article: Can Australia Tax Its Way to Prosperity? ATA Chief Economist John Humphreys has been invited to join the panel, though it appears likely he will be a lonely voice for lower taxes. If you’re in the area and want to come along, you can pick up tickets here . Given the lineup of the panel, one theme that is likely to come out of the conversation is the need for a change to the tax mix in Australia. Earlier this week one of the panelists (Dr Aruna…
- NSW’s wind power scam
Data centres (the infrastructure behind AI) are a boom industry at the moment. There are already over 160 doted around Australia and many more being planned or built. These data centres require a lot of energy, and so there is an understandable debate about how to ensure they can be effectively rolled out without causing electricity prices to rise for everybody else. The obvious solution is that data centres should be responsible for ensuring there is enough new capacity in the electricity market. Fair enough. The data centres themselves agree with this idea, so what’s the problem? The…
- Who should we blame for high inflation?
It would make my life easier if Australia’s inflation problem had a simple cause done by a single villain. Alas that is not the case. Prices are rising for several reasons, and there’s plenty of blame to be shared around. The government deserves their share of the blame As many others have noted, the government is spending more money than they have (despite bringing in record-high taxes) and running unnecessary budget deficits. This has three consequences, depending on who is lending the money: If the money is lent by foreigners, the consequence is a stronger Australian dollar, which leads to…
- Lies, damned lies, and government reports
The government has released their 7th Intergenerational Report (IGR), which makes long-term budget predictions for the next 40 years as our population gets older. These reports have historically rung an alarm bell to warn the country about the unsustainable nature of our big-government system, but in a break from tradition, this report has painted an optimistic picture of sunshine and rainbows. The new IGR still predicts never-ending budget deficits, but it concludes these will be fairly mild and manageable, and that debt will remain low. Sounds nice, but these rosy conclusions are based on…
- Tobacco tax disaster
The debate about tobacco tax isn’t really about tax. It’s a debate about prohibition. The government wants to ban tobacco, but they lack the integrity to do it directly, so instead they have a policy of de facto prohibition through prohibitive taxes. This isn’t the first time this has happened. Back in 1937 the US federal government introduced cannabis prohibition. Kinda. Their law didn’t directly ban weed… instead, it introduced a painful set of regulations and a large tax. The price of weed back then was roughly $10 an ounce, and the US government introduced a $100 tax on top, which was a…
- Another attempt at internet censorship
As we outlined earlier this year , recent years have seen a steady stream of government proposals to crack down on free speech online. Most of those proposals have been introduced, though thankfully the 2024 misinformation laws were abandoned and the 2026 hate laws were watered down due to a public backlash. The government has just announced their latest attempt. As noted by Senator Alex Antic , once again it is a short-sighted attempt to censor the internet under the vague banner of safety, though they have become more cunning in their approach. This time around the government has bundled…
- Financial warning signs
You shouldn’t trust people who confidently make predictions about finance. As a general rule, those who genuinely know what is going to happen won’t be telling you (they’ll be busy making millions), and those who are willing to tell you don’t really know. That applies to me also, and so please do not interpret this article as a prediction… but rather a precautionary warning of what might be coming. The short version is this: The Australian economy has been weak for years, with no economic growth and inflation running above the 3% maximum target. The Iran war has caused an energy supply shock…
- Immigration confusion
A clear majority of Australians want less immigration, but it’s not clear exactly what that means. In the lead up to the last federal election the Liberal-National opposition seemed to get confused between “net overseas migration” and “new permanent residents”, and now One Nation seems to be mixing up “net migration” with “migrant arrivals”. To be fair, the system is painfully complex, and the politicians wouldn’t be the only ones who are confused. Hence this article. Immigration debates tend to focus on the numbers, but there are four broad issues that need to be considered: Quantity = how…
- Immigration & national identity
Last week I trekked down to Melbourne to speak at a policy dialogue put together by the Robert Menzies Institute on immigration. This was a closed door conference held under Chatham House rules, so I can’t tell you who said what, but the talkfest certainly got me thinking. I was invited down to talk about the economics of immigration, which was perhaps the least interesting part of the day. Nearly all speakers agreed that immigration had little net impact on the broader economy, and so the real debate lies elsewhere… on the issues of national identity and social cohesion. Though before…
- Next Senate will be a mess
- More builders without more migrants
- Australia's best & worst Treasurers
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