Currently, there is much debate regarding income tax rates and possible tax cuts. Part of this debate concerns higher income earners and whether they should receive tax cuts--either through lowering their marginal tax rate and/or increasing the income threshold at which their marginal tax rate takes effect. In this research note Stephen Barber provides statistics...

The Department of Social Security makes, or has made in the past, a number of payments for able bodied workforce aged people. This paper traces the history of each of these payments from their introduction to the present day. A brief history is provided to put the various payments into a broader context. A series...

The Australian Electoral Commission made public the 2002-03 annual disclosure returns for political parties, associated entities and donors on 2 February 2004. A month later, the Senate resuscitated an inquiry into the disclosure of donations to political parties and candidates. In this Research Note Sarah Miskin provides a guide to the returns, noting: the total...

In this paper Andrew Kopras provides a concordance of postcodes to Commonwealth electoral divisions, based on the results ofthe 2001 Census. This is an update of Research Paper 12, 2000-01, and reflects changes to electoral boundaries brought about by recent electoral redistributions. The concordance will enable senators and members to convert information published by postcode...

Stephen Barber and Andrew Kopras take recently published postcode taxation statistics and aggregate them to an electorate basis. Summary information on such items as taxpayers, taxable income, tax paid and net tax ratio are shown for each electorate in Australia. Six tables ranking the electorates by various taxation categories are provided as well as two...