Tax reform is not a subject that makes you dinner party invitee of choice. But if we don’t have an adult conversation about payroll tax soon, we could condemn an entire generation of Tasmanian youth to joblessness. Businesses are enjoying a reprieve from payroll tax as a result of COVID-19. But as we enter the new financial year, the Tasmanian government appears to have no plans to extend the tax relief.
Read MoreAustralians in every state are waiting anxiously for lockdown restrictions to ease. Businesses stand poised to flip their signs to “Open”. But despite our thoughts and prayers, Australia’s economy isn’t going to suddenly spring back to life as pasty consumers emerge from their homes blinking at bright storefront lights.
Read MoreNational crises challenge liberal democracy more than anything else. Citizens surrender civil liberties they couldn’t imagine living without in ordinary times. During the coronavirus pandemic, the adage “desperate times call for desperate measures” feels painfully apt. The coronavirus has effectively put all of Australia under house arrest, restricted our freedom of movement, and even taken away many of our livelihoods. For some reason when we are afraid, we look to the government. The era of our first Anzacs was no different.
Read MoreAustralia contributed $63.7 million in 2018 for the two year WHO budget. We need to pull funding from WHO until further notice as we are funding a propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party. When our belts are being tightened, we need to focus on our national interests and not empowering unelected globalist elites that are out of touch and uncountable.
Read MoreGen Z has come face to face with our first crisis, and it isn’t the climate emergency. Coronavirus is sweeping through the globe, forcing people into long-periods of self-isolation. The Australian economy is looking down the barrel of our first recession after 29 consecutive years of growth.
Read MoreYesterday, we poor taxpayers paid the ABC to reprimand us for stockpiling alcohol in case of a lockdown. This prompted me to plop down at my home computer with a large glass of wine and say a few things about the nanny state.
Read MoreYesterday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenburg announced their $189 billion eight-plus point plan to stimulate the economy in response to the coronavirus slowdown. For context, if the ATO were to issue a blanket tax refund to everyone working in Australia, this stimulus package would add up to $17,700 per person.
Read MoreTogether we can ensure common sense and level heads will prevail. We immensely appreciate the ongoing donations of supporters like you, who have always kept our lights on, and we of course understand that for some this is no longer a possibility for the immediate future.
Read MoreLiberals Tim Wilson, Craig Kelly, Jason Falinski and James Paterson are grinding Treasurer Josh Frydenburg’s gears by demanding we send the luxury car tax the way of the dodo (or the Holden). The luxury car tax was introduced in 2000 to protect the domestic car industry, but like most protectionistic policies it has failed.
Read MoreAnother one bites the dust in Australian manufacturing. This time it’s Holden. Across Australia, people are lamenting the end of the iconic automotive brand. While the nostalgia of ‘football, meat-pies, kangaroos and Holden cars’ is strong, the market is stronger.
Read MoreSpare a thought for the Aussie spirit that’s being battered and bruised by bureaucratic busybodies. On Sunday, a group of local heroes on the central coast banded together to try and save homes near Tuggerah lakes from the coming onslaught of torrential rain that rocked NSW’s east coast, flooded towns and destroyed the power grid for tens of thousands of homes
Read MoreThrough an open and competitive energy market, Australian can achieve the holy energy trinity: cheap, clean, and reliable. In 2020, let’s deregulate. Government intervention in the energy market forced electricity prices through the ceiling and made our energy supply less reliable. There is a reason Sydneysiders pay some of the highest utility bills in the world, bills comparable to those paid by New Yorkers in a city notorious for its unaffordability.
Read MoreThe Senate Economics Committee is holding a hearing on January 30 in Sydney to discuss restricting people from using Australia’s own currency. The bill, intended to stop illegal activity, would stop law abiding Aussies from making cash purchases over $10,000, even if those purchases were made over multiple payments.
Read MoreI am sick and tired of writing about sports rorts, but I actually value my responsibility to the taxpayers. Please, just stop!
Read MoreIn bars across Sydney, people are raising glasses to the repeal of lockout laws. Monday marked the end of the 1:30 am lockout and moved last drinks all of 30 minutes from 3:00 am to 3:30 am for everywhere except Kings Cross and Darlinghurst. While this is a move in the right direction, the government is still choosing winners and losers under the pretence of safety.
Read MoreThe government may not know how to build a working national broadband network, but they do know how to covertly collect ever more money from Australians. This July, taxpayers will begin paying an extra $7.10 each month to the government for their internet. Because someone needs to pay for that $51billion NBN mess.
Read MoreIf you’re one of the many Australians who uses protein powder or other supplements, take note: those who wield red tape want to re-categorise them as medicine instead of food, writes Emilie Dye.
Read MorePrime Minister Scott Morrison has given business and taxpayers an early Christmas present with today’s announcement of cuts to government waste and red tape in what is expected to be the largest cull of government departments since 1987.
Read MoreAs tensions rise in Hong Kong and the protests become ever more violent, some have begun wavering in their support for the umbrella-wielding protestors. Closer to home Australians have suffered from the aggressive, violent, and destructive behaviour of the young Extinction Rebellion activists.
Read MoreFormer PM Paul Keating should have a look at what’s going on in China before lashing out at ‘pious do gooders’
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