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Teresa Hinton

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Experts by experience: strengthening the mental health consumer voice in Tasmania

This research explores the achievements and struggles of the mental health consumer movement across Australia
in order to inform the development of consumer activities in one state, Tasmania

Population and Australia's future labour force
Reform of income tax in Australia: a long-term agenda

This paper demonstrates how benefits from continued increases in productivity can be distributed between the government and taxpayers in a way that promotes work incentives, achieves a gain in vertical equity, and allows the government’s revenue to continue to grow in real terms

Temporary skilled migrants' employment and residence outcomes: findings from the follow-up survey of 457 visa holders

The temporary business entry program has been a positive initiative in terms of promoting
Australia to the overseas skilled labour market according to this follow-up survey of 457 visa holders

Temporary skilled migrants in Australia: employment circumstances and migration outcomes

Siew-Ean Khoo, Peter McDonald and Graeme Hugo examine the reasons for migration, employment circumstances and migration outcomes of temporary skilled migrants who are holders of the temporary business entry visa

Reform of income tax in Australia: a long-term agenda

Peter McDonald and Rebecca Kippen demonstrate how the tax-free threshold could be increased over a decade to well above the single adult rate of the Newstart Allowance and the gap between the company tax rate and average personal income tax rates reduced to less than five percentage points over a wide range of incomes

Comments on Intergenerational Report, 2002 -03

Prepared by Peter McDonald and Steve Dowrick, this analysis of the federal government's Intergenerational Report suggest that the report reaches unduly pessimistic conclusions by understating the effect of a fall in unemployment, greatly underestimating the potential for future increases in labour force
participation rates, and presenting an unduly certain picture of the levels of future costs of health and
aged care

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

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Secrecy law reforms strike a blow to old culture of government secrecy
12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

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