inheritance taxes
An agenda for tax reform
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Taxation | 22nd June 2025On 22nd and 23rd June, John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations blog published (in two parts) Saul’s article about options that ideally should be on Australian Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers’ table as he considers how tax reform could contribute to two of the challenges he highlighted in his address to the National Press Club on 10th […]
Things that we should be (but won’t be) talking about during the current election campaign
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Productivity | 11th April 2025Saul Eslake’s on-line presentation to ‘Curtin Corner’, hosted by the John Curtin Institute for Public Policy at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, on 11th April, about the economic and budgetary issues that _should_ be being discussed during the 2025 election campaign, but won’t be.
Widening the Gap – An Intergenerational Lens on Wealth Inequality in Australia
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, The Australian Economy | 12th December 2024Wealth is inevitably more unequally distributed than income. And inequality in the distribution of wealth has increased more than inequality in the distribution of income in Australia (as in many other countries) over the past two decades or so. But what’s particularly striking, at least in Australia, is how inequality in the distribution of wealth […]