The Australian Labor Party's reponse to the 2019–20 Federal Budget.

This paper argues that to differentiate between superficial tax changes and meaningful tax reform, it is necessary to understand the link between taxes, incentives and behaviour.

This analysis argues that in the world of realpolitik, Australia has decided with the US and other allies that it will now 'step up' in the Pacific. But in their haste, there remain unanswered questions, policy incoherence and financial trade-offs which are ill-considered.

This NATSEM analysis finds that given the wide range of tax changes and the energy payment, nearly 85% of Australian families will be affected by at least one measure of the tax and transfer policy changes, and nearly 90% of the population.

This report contains modelling of the distributionary effect of the accelerated income tax cuts, which reveals 54% of the tax cut benefit goes to the top 20% of income earners, while the bottom 20% receive a mere 3% of the benefit.