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Miracle rebound now needs a kick of reform

The biggest economic risk Australians now face is the obvious lack of any political will in Canberra to adjust the policy settings the OECD says are holding back the recovery.

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Miraculous is the word Commonwealth Bank boss Matt Comyn uses to describe the rebound in jobs after Australians were shaken by the sight of dole queues forming last year.

Yet this week the OECD called on the Morrison government to flatten the two-tier company tax rate that discourages companies from expanding and hiring more people. Australia’s incentive-killing taxation of income is heavy, it says.

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