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| 2013 press articles and media commentary | |
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| | Koukoulas: budgetary Swan song less interesting than Abbott’s reply, The Drum Unleashed, 7 May 2013
It’s not Wayne Swan you should listen to next week, but the budget reply speech from Opposition Leader Tony Abbott. Economist and former Labor... 
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| | A surplus for its own sake is a dangerous thing, The Drum Unleashed, 24 April 2013
Just as you shouldn't run a deficit if the economy is overheating, there's nothing to be gained from running a surplus if the economy is then...
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| | Higher taxes could fund a better Australia, The Age, 22 April 2013
There was an irony in the very public occasion of Margaret Thatcher's grand funeral procession in London last week. This was, after all, a political...
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| | Labor’s asking the wrong questions, The Australian Financial Review, 16 April 2013
The ALP must stop being a slave to its past and become a master of it, and it should begin by dropping the idea that the Hawke-Keating era was its...
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| | Interest rate cuts are saving us billions, The Drum, 9 April 2013
Each percentage point reduction in interest rates has saved Australian borrowers about $25 billion a year. The Gillard Government might like to point...
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| | Super changes, Murdoch & media regulation, North Korea, The Drum ABCTV, 5 April 2013
Per Capita's David Hetherington joins Kerry Chikarovski, The Guardian's Katherine Murphy and host Julia Baird to discuss the issues of the day.
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| | When you understand hate, you understand Rudd's fall The Drum, 28 March 2013
The resurrection of Kevin Rudd was treated as inevitable, but anyone who had considered the esteem with which he was held by his colleagues would...
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| | Taxes are already low but you wouldn't know it, The Drum, 28 March 2013
Taxes have only fallen in recent years, but still Australians feel hard done by. Whoever wins office in September won't be able to ignore our...
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| | Give and take that taps touchy topic of taxation, The Australian, 30 March 2013
It is a common refrain of many left-wing economists that we are all "dying" to pay more tax in exchange for more government services.
Survey data...
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| | The 2012 Tax Survey, The Drum, 25 March 2013
David Hetherington talks about the Per Capita 2012 Tax Survey on The Drum.
[David Hetherington interview 34.55]
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| | Aussies sure do hate paying tax, MacroBusinessBlog, 25 March 2013
Leith van Onselen blogs about the 2012 Per Capita Tax Survey.
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| | Carbon tax perceptions hitting hard, The World Today, ABC Radio, 25 March 2013
Ashley Hall interviews David Hetherington about the Per Capita 2012 Tax Survey.
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| | Perception of carbon tax hits more than hip pocket, ABC News, 25 March 2013
A survey has revealed that most people believe the carbon tax is hitting their hip pockets far harder than official analysis suggests is actually the...
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| | Survey shows hardening attitude to tax, 3AW, 25 March 2013
3AW Breakfast, Ross Stevenson and John Burns interview David Hetherington about the 2012 Per Capita Tax survey.
to hear the interview, click on...
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| | Study finds widespread ignorance about the carbon tax, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 2013
Australians are so ignorant about the carbon tax that more than half think it has pushed up the price of petrol.
Nine months after its...
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| | Australians oppose more taxes as budget time looms , The Illawarra Mercury, 25 March 2013
In an ominous sign for the government as it draws up the May budget, more than half of Australians now believe they pay too much tax, up from 44 per...
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| | High earners don't realise own wealth, study finds, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 2013
Australia's high earners are surprisingly magnanimous when it comes to tax. Many think the rich should pay more. They just don't think that applies...
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| | History’s damnation a Labor trait, , Australian Financial Review, 21 March 2013
How do we explain the catastrophe now overtaking the Labor Party? Has there ever been an organisation so conscious of the foolishness of its...
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| | Cost of Living, Hack, Triple J, 1 March 2013
David Hetherington talks to Triple J's Alex Mann on Hack, about the myth of cost of living pressures.
Taking it on any objective measure,...
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| | Gillard spells the end of the big left project, The Financial Review, 1 March 2013
Two stories in 10 days caused me to double-take. The first was the Prime Minister's widely reported speech to the Australian Workers' Union national...
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| | Asylum seekers, Western Sydney, Higher Education, The Drum ABCTV, 28 February 2013
The Drum panelists discuss asylum seekers, the PM in Western Sydney, higher education, and the potential repeal of the carbon tax, with Per Capita's...
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| | Policy, not narrative, the real story, The Age, 28 February 2013
When I read a bedtime story to my two-year-old daughter, at the end she doesn't ask, ''Good narrative, but where's the policy?'' Columnist Waleed Aly...
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| | Pay China to sequester carbon dioxide emissions – now, Financial Review, 25 February 2013
Air pollution in China is lethal. Only 1 per cent of the 560 million Chinese people living in cities breathe air considered safe in Europe.
A...
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| | The Greens deal, ALP unity, and the swimming review, The Drum, ABCTV, 19 February 2013
The Drum panelists discuss the Greens ending their deal with the Government, (dis)unity in the ALP, and the review of Swimming Australia, with...
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| | Myth of Coalition govts: Howard the biggest spender of all, Crikey, 13 February 2013
There’s a perception the Coalition are better at cutting spending than Labor, but the Rudd and Gillard governments have cut spending significantly.
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| | Young against old: the real inequality gap, The Drum, 16 January 2013
While the rise of the super-rich raises legitimate concerns over political influence, writes David Hetherington, the "one per cent" debate also...
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| | Polling, taxes and Lance Armstrong, The Drum, ABCTV, 15 January 2013
The Drum panelists discuss Polling, taxes and Lance Armstrong, with Per Capita's David Hetherington, News Limited national economics editor...
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| | A fair go for our industrial relations system, The Drum, 15 January 2013
There seems to be more ideology than fact in the industrial relations debate, writes Stephen Koukoulas. The system is a long way from being broken...
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| | Equality is Still Labor's Religion, The Australian, 11 January 2013
Driven mainly by Julia Gillard's self-belief, Labor enters this year with an outside chance of retaining power. But win or lose, the election will be...
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| | The odds are stacked against Labor, State of the Left, 13 February 2013
Labor is not going to win by presenting a softer version of the small government, free market Coalition. Instead, it must revisit its distinct social...
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| | ABS data reveals phantom pain, Australian Financial Review, 31 January 2013
David Hetherington on the cost of living in the Australian Financial Review, ABS data reveals phantom pain, by Jason Murphy:
"Executive director of...
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| | Young against old: the real inequality gap, The Drum, 16 January 2013
While the rise of the super-rich raises legitimate concerns over political influence, writes David Hetherington, the "one per cent" debate also...
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| | Australians become less supportive of tax systems, Ethos Corporation, 26 March 2013
Australians become less supportive of tax systems, Ethos Corporation, 26 March 2013
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| | Almost half of all Aussie households say they didn't get compensated for the carbon tax, The Telegraph, 25 March 2013
Australians are increasingly concerned they are over taxed and not receiving value for their dollar in public spending by government.
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