Tax reform to target Australia’s distorting capital gains tax and negative gearing regimes could net the government A$5.3 billion in tax revenue per year, according to a new report from the Grattan Institute.
The report recommends reducing the capital gains tax discount for individuals and trusts to 25%, and phasing in limits to negative...
The federal budget deficit from now through to 2018-19 is likely to be $129 billion, $21 billion worse than in the December official budget update, according to estimates prepared by Deloitte Access Economics.
Deloitte strongly argues the budget has a revenue problem, not just a spending problem – a proposition consistently rejected by...
Though mature and nuanced, the cyber security strategy delivered by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last week matches neither the spending plan or the language of our closest cyber allies.
The plan promises to redress important deficiencies in the country’s posture, but apart from mentions of terrorism, it does not openly discuss key sources...
On all sides of an argument, advocates push ridiculous extremes.
Take the conservative push against windmills, which hopefully reached some kind of zenith last year when Alan Jones, appearing on on ABC’s Q&A, pulled a “swifty” on the cost of wind. After he was picked up by Melbourne PhD student Dylan McConnell in this factcheck...
In today’s fast-moving financial markets, many new and experienced traders wonder whether automated trading systems — often called trading robots, expert advisors (EAs), or algorithmic bots — can real...
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Physical retail is back and it’s booming. Shopping centres across Australia are preparing for one of the biggest Christmas and Boxing Day sale seasons on record, driven by strong consumer confidence...
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Agile Energy is now positioned to play a defining role in reducing energy costs for Australian businesses and fast-tracking the nation’s transformation into a globally competitive green economic pow...
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