Two months have passed since the budget and there are three things we learnt from it. First, the government displayed a lot more courage than many of us were expecting.Back in February, I went to an author event hosted by Paul Bongiorno for The First Albanese Government. The book’s editors, John Hawkins, Michelle Grattan and John Halligan, gave the Albanese government’s first term a tick on appointments, keeping promises and being orderly. But they said it didn’t compare with the ambition of previous reforming governments and hadn’t yet delivered any big reforms.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Labor has broken the tax reform ice. Now it must keep going
There is a big list of tax reforms Australia needs to tackle, including company tax, pricing natural resource extraction and dealing with the shrinking GST base.
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