Australian Institute for Progress thanks State Treasurer Cameron Dick for drawing attention to their submission to the Parliamentary Cost of Living and Economics Committee criticising the $1,000 electricity rebate as an electoral bribe, but wishes to correct a few mistakes.
Topic: Economics
Commonwealth Budget 2024
With the COVID policy settings in the rear view mirror a good government would be trying to return us to back to the status quo ante, at the very least, but this is not a good government.
Queensland is the latest state to feel pain of misallocation of GST revenues
The Australian Institute for Progress has renewed calls for GST revenue to be distributed to the states on a per capita basis as galloping mining revenues in WA and Queensland expose the structural weaknesses in the current system.
Covid-19 and Australian federalism
Did you know that some of the most successful countries in the world are federations?
Rule out changing negative gearing
It’s time for the prime minister to step up and rule out tinkering with the housing market and get on with the job of creating more supply. In particular he must rule out any changes to negative gearing.
Go for Olympic host city gold – and go for broke too
The Olympic business model means that host cities invariably lose out. Brisbane will need a heroic effort to avoid that fate.
Victorian ‘windfall tax’ kicks entrepreneurs and home buyers
Other state governments should not copy this misguided tax, which will stymie development and push up house prices.
Cross River Rail: privatisations, cost over-runs, and no patrons
The private part of the partnership buys the rights to the system for 24 years for $1.5 Bn, and then allows Queensland Rail to use it for a payment over the same period of $2.4 Bn, plus another $2.4 Bn for maintenance.
Queensland needs a proper plan for economic recovery
The Australian Institute for Progress has unleashed a billboard campaign calling on the ALP to unveil its plan for economic recovery.
Queensland Government’s new, secret, tenancy laws unnecessary, unjust and inequitable
In the last federal election Labor lost in large part because of their proposed taxes on negative gearing and dividends. This proposal is even more unjust.
