Overview: The government has claimed there are no alternatives to its budget vision and called on the senate crossbenchers to stop blocking its budget measures or find alternatives that stack up. This paper aims to do just that. In order to help the government out and shift debate back to good budgetary policy, The Australia...

Budgeting smarter not harder proposes a balanced, sustainable, and effective fiscal consolidation package. The report highlights that the Government's approach to fiscal consolidation, throught the 2015 Intergenerational Report (IGR), is illusory. The 2015 IGR fails to provide a long-term sustainable approach to strengthening future budgets. The report identifies three areas that must be debated as...

This paper is the first in a series of policy proposals intended reduce Australia’s budget deficit in a fairer and more equitable way than the measures rejected by the Senate. Overview With large parts of the 2014 budget not passed by the Senate, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has asked Senators for alternative ways to reduce...

This paper is intended to start a national conversation on tax reform and invites submissions from the public. Foreword Australia has experienced nearly a quarter of a century of uninterrupted economic growth. As a result, Australians continue to have some of the highest living standards in the world. Over the next few decades, the challenge...

NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley claims the Coalition Government has cut $3 billion from health.