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Robert Carling discusses his new report The Unfinished Business of Australian Income Tax Reform on Lateline Business, 3 March 2010.
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REPORT RELEASED THURSDAY 4 MARCH
Indigenous Employment, Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Facts for Evidence Based Policies by Helen Hughes and Mark Hughes
In Indigenous Employment, Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Facts for Evidence Based Policies Professor, Senior Research Fellow Helen Hughes and independent researcher Mark Hughes say Indigenous unemployment is not due to lack of jobs but government policies that have made many Aboriginals unemployable.
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The Unfinished Business of Australian Income Tax Reform by Robert Carling
In The Unfinished Business of Australian Income Tax Reform, CIS Senior Fellow Robert Carling says the reform agenda for personal income tax should be to cut marginal tax rates; implement automatic indexation of thresholds for inflation; scale back the myriad selective tax breaks; and simplify.
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AUDIO The two economists Dr Oliver Hartwich of CIS and David Hetherington from Per Capita discuss the size of government on ABC’s Life Matters 1 March 2010 [click here to listen]
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