June
12pc super is 25 years late but worth the wait: Keating
Paul Keating says Coalition delays to increasing the super guarantee could have cost a retiree as much as $300,000.
Howard and Costello: This is how you do tax reform, Jim
John Howard and Peter Costello have weighed in on Jim Chalmers’ productivity and tax agenda, 25 years after implementing the GST.
‘No one liked it’: Lessons for tax reform after 25 years of GST
The bitter brawl over the goods and services tax is worth remembering as Jim Chalmers opens the door to real reform for the first time in years.
Frydenberg’s glorious return to Kooyong appears inevitable
The former treasurer has the chess pieces in place to insert himself back into federal politics.
Influential or ‘enfeebled’: Has Treasury lost its mojo?
With high government spending, low productivity, and no tax reform in 25 years, an uncomfortable question is being whispered in Canberra.
May
Liberals put tax and economic reform on to-do list
The new Liberal leadership says tax and economic reform will be a core part of its agenda, with a shift away from Peter Dutton’s populism.
How the Liberals got it so wrong
An aborted income tax cut plan pushed by Liberal campaign headquarters shows the disconnect with Peter Dutton’s travelling staff in the party’s most catastrophic federal election loss.
Chalmers didn’t know a key budget number. This is why it matters
Treasurer Jim Chalmers failed to recognise a $47 billion deficit figure in an oversight that economist Saul Eslake says exposes the government for glossing over so-called “off budget” spending.
March
Why Albanese is confident of winning – partly thanks to Trump
The government quietly hopes the Trump effect will boost its chances, but the focus of the election campaign will be resolutely on domestic cost-of-living pressures.
We wasted a $400b windfall, and now we’ll all have to pay
An audit of federal finances finds Australia has never seen rivers of gold like this, but the hangover will be brutal.
February
Costello slams Trump tariff threat on Australia over ‘unfair’ GST
The Trump administration has no grounds to punish Australia for its goods and services tax, former treasurer Peter Costello says.
Costello, Abbott, Credlin join global New Right circuit
The global conservative circuit has a growing cohort of Australians.
January
Debt blowout shows budget honesty is ‘crooked’ in Queensland
The shocking budget blowout after the state’s election last year shows a massive institutional failure that has lessons for governments across the country.
John Wylie’s Tanarra Capital takes Nine stake after share price slide
The former investment banker is known for pushing companies his firm holds stakes in, from Lendlease to Tabcorp, to make major changes and spin off assets.
November 2024
Peter Costello’s journalist son back in the spotlight
A Current Affair’s Seb Costello had an ugly interaction with a person involved with Oak Capital this week.
Dealmaker David Di Pilla’s other REIT is underwater
The capital markets darling’s DigiCo REIT will be the biggest IPO in years. His other REIT is floundering.
‘I would not have agreed to Future Fund shift’
With $230 billion to come into play, expect a long line of rent-seekers to form a queue, says former treasurer and Future Fund founder Peter Costello.
‘Like bears to a honey-pot’: how the Future Fund got political
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ planned changes to the nation’s $230 billion savings account might be unfinished business for Labor.
Future Fund investment shake-up comes with risks
Jim Chalmers insists Labor is making only a subtle change to the sovereign wealth fund’s investment mandate. But it could be a slippery slope.
Chalmers directs Future Fund to invest in housing and renewables
The treasurer has directed the country’s sovereign wealth fund to prioritise investments in housing, renewable energy and infrastructure.