By providing incentives, government can achieve a high return on investment and stimulate the growth of new industries.
A $37,000 tax-free threshold, higher tax on the top 1%, cut CGT to 25% and $30/tonne carbon price.
Remember the banking commission?
The findings of the Haynes Royal Commission into Banking and Financial Services shocked us all – $1b stolen from customers, misconduct and greed on a grand scale. Two years on …
Our big coal and gas customers getting out
The Coalition’s attachment to fossil fuels is not just about donations they receive from the sector or their conservative rump of MPs in coal mining areas. Coal earned Australia $23 …
President Biden, embracing greater ambition on an epic scale
If we can harness all of our energy and talents, and unmatchable American innovation, we can turn this threat into an opportunity to revitalize the U.S. energy sector and boost …
Telling it like it is on the environment
Environment scientists in Australia and the US have reviewed the evidence and found that future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. Here is a link to …
Big economic opportunity, if only
Climate change is the biggest threat to Australia’s economy but it’s also the biggest economic opportunity in the country’s history. With boundless plains and world-leading sun and wind resources, our …
Trickle down to zero
While the Treasurer channels his supply-side heroes Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in responding to the pandemic, new evidence based on the 40 years of developed world experimentation with trickle-down …
CCS a reckless waste of money
New analysis shows that adding carbon capture and storage technologies to a new coal-fired generator could increase the levelised cost of electricity by between $90 and $125 per MWh. With …
Economic solutions part 1 – laying the groundwork
The tax cuts for mid to high-income earners passed this month, demonstrating that the Federal Government either doesn’t understand how the economy works, or it is playing the Australian people …