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Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers juggles expectations and ambition in pursuing tax reform

Next week will be the 40th anniversary of the Hawke government’s tax summit. Dominated by then treasurer Paul Keating’s unsuccessful bid to win support for a consumption tax, it was the public centrepiece of an extraordinary political and policy story.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Treasury veteran Ken Henry on the “enormous damage” the tax system does to young people

In August, the Albanese government will hold an economic “roundtable” that will discuss productivity, budget sustainability and resilience. Australia’s tax system will be one of the central issues, and stakeholders are gearing up with their varying arguments for changes.

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View from The Hill: Jim Chalmers wants to get on with economic reform and tax is in his sights

Jim Chalmers cast his Wednesday National Press Club speech as a second instalment in a two-part presentation that was kicked off by the prime minister in an address there last week.

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Timber 'tipping point' threatens housing affordability

Australia faces challenges in maintaining domestic wood supply, according to a new report, making achieving housing targets even harder.

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Grattan on Friday: Peter Dutton’s tax indexation ‘aspiration’ has merit – so why didn’t we hear about it before?

Peter Dutton, now seriously on the back foot, has made an extraordinarily big “aspirational” commitment at the back end of this campaign.

The Conversation

Post-election tax reform is the key to reversing Australia’s growing wealth divide

Federal elections always offer the opportunity for a reset. Whoever wins the May 3 election should consider a much needed revamp of the tax system, which is no longer fit for purpose.

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‘Wilful acts of bastardry’: former Treasury secretary says young Australian workers ‘robbed’ by tax system

Ken Henry made comments at a tax summit in Melbourne, arguing fiscal drag is seeing taxes go up while real incomes fall

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'Preferred' koala park opens door to major logging

A state's so-called koala wars appear no closer to being resolved as spatial mapping highlights the possible impact on native forest of a national park plan.

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Industry shoots down calls to axe native logging

Native loggers have rejected claims Australia can rid itself of the practice by replacing it with plantations, arguing it would result in irresponsible imports.

AAP

'Be brave': new push to save tax reform from extinction

Teal MP Allegra Spender has a bold vision to bring tax reform back on the agenda after 25 years of inaction, widening inequality and falling home ownership.

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Indigenous knowledge key to reverse environment decline

Governments need to look further into the future and draw on knowledge from the past to halt biodiversity loss, a global summit has been told.

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‘Cutest animal in Australia’: keeping watch over greater gliders in a forest targeted for logging

Den trees used by the endangered species are off-limits to loggers so campaigners – among them former Treasury head Ken Henry and MP Sophie Scamps – register them to save them

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NSW government says state’s biodiversity ‘in crisis’ as it pledges first steps to reverse decline

Government will also overhaul state laws after Guardian Australia uncovered serious problems with biodiversity offsets scheme

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NSW government reveals plans to fix broken nature laws

Two key recommendations of the Henry review have been pushed aside but the NSW government says it's plan to fix the nature crisis will still work.

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Power station health concerns present for years

Newcastle Herald letters to the editor May 13, 2024

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NSW pricing watchdog recommends overhaul of biodiversity offsets scheme

Tribunal found developers were paying into fund five times faster than the Biodiversity Conservation Trust was able to find required offsets

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NSW government axes dozens of environmental roles in ‘backward step’

Exclusive: Coalition accuses Labor of hypocrisy and says delay in rewarding farmers to protect nature is a ‘disgrace’

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Bob Carr warns environment movement ‘in danger of fading’ amid huge challenges

The longest serving premier of NSW throws support behind new alliance calling for overhaul of land-clearing laws

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Labor’s first NSW budget in a decade will provide ‘practical assistance’, treasurer says

A $7bn shortfall has been forecast this financial year, but Daniel Mookhey says any cuts to be made will be in areas that ‘don’t affect people’

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What's to stop Philip Lowe moving to a private bank after he leaves the RBA? It's what his predecessors did

Surely Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe won’t move to a private bank after his term as governor ends next week.

Newcastle Herald

'The real endangered species is the Australian family': biodiversity review slammed

Jeff McCloy fears housing affordability will continue to worsen.

Newcastle Herald

Biodiversity laws not achieving primary purpose: Ken Henry

Ken Henry spoke about his concerns at the UDAI luncheon in Newcastle.

Newcastle Herald

'Our future depends upon it': Dr Ken Henry exposes failed biodiversity laws

'If a developer had enough money, they developed.'

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Australia’s environment must be given legal priority over land-clearing and logging to survive, Ken Henry says

Former Treasury chief says every measure of Australia’s environment is ‘going in the wrong direction’

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NSW environment protection laws unlikely to succeed without major overhaul, damning review finds

Review warns half of species under threat in state are on course to become extinct in next 100 years

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