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Meg Lees

July 2020

Morrison will inevitably be criticised, including internally for letting "a crisis go to waste" in terms of an overdue tax reform agenda. He will prefer not to waste his strong chance of re-election.

Why Morrison will let this crisis 'go to waste'

Scott Morrison will inevitably be criticised for not seizing the day in terms of an overdue tax reform agenda. But he will prefer not to squander his strong chance of re-election.

  • Jennifer Hewett

June 2020

Meg Lees

'A good thing for the country': Meg Lees on the GST, 20 years later

The former Democrats leader says any move to radically change the tax rate or base should be opposed.

  • Tom McIlroy
SA Treasurer Rob Lucas is the last political survivor of the GST era.

How Jeff Kennett helped save the GST

Rob Lucas, the last political survivor of the GST era, said "it was Kennett and Stockdale who got it through".

  • Phillip Coorey

January 2020

Peter Costello and John Howard, the key architects of the goods and services tax. Mr Costello says the days of tax reform like the GST are over.

'Nothing like it again': Peter Costello on Australia's move to a GST

Cabinet papers from 1998 and 1999 were made public for the first time on Wednesday, revealing new detail on the inner workings of the Howard government.

  • Tom McIlroy

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