Why the minimum wage increase won’t help the low skilled and low paid
The Fair Work Commission yesterday announced plans to increase Australia’s national minimum wage by 2.5% on July 1 of this…
Plain packaging a graphic study in failure
Twelve years since they were introduced and nearly six years since branding and logos were removed from cigarette packets, we…
Betting against our rights
Last month the Senate Environment and Communications Committee released a report on the participation of Australians in online poker, which…
Tax creeps
Last week, the Parliamentary Budget Office issued a report Changes in average personal income tax rates: distributional impacts’ which found…
Drug decriminalisation: no pipe dream
In a time where government expenditure is a staggeringly high, the war on drugs needs to be tackled with more…
There’s nothing to celebrate in the revised budget deficit
Treasurer Scott Morrison yesterday announced that the Commonwealth budget deficit has reduced by $4.4 billion from the forecasted budget in…
Let’s pick on the poor with a floor price for alcohol
The Western Australian government this week announced a proposal to apply a floor price to takeaway alcohol, another ingenious idea…
