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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: Lies, damned lies, and government reports · Tobacco tax disaster
Written from Death & Taxes’s own published post titles and openings in Sep 11, 2026. It describes the subjects the newsletter covers, not its views, and is not investment advice.
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Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
66K on Sep 10, 2026 → 66K on Sep 30, 2026
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Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #71 today · #68 a week ago
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Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 21 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
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- Top 14%
- Best rank seen
- #58
- Rank, 7 days
- −3 places
- Followers added
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last 30 days
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Most-reacted post we have seen: Another attempt at internet censorship — 35 reactions on Sep 10, 2026.
Recent posts
- 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
- Can the National Party survive?
- Labor's capital gains tax blunder
- Government plans to bailout big media
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