Jim Chalmers juggles expectations and ambition in pursuing tax reform
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Next week will be the 40th anniversary of the Hawke government’s tax summit. Dominated by then treasurer Paul Keating’s unsuccessful bid to win support for a consumption tax, it was the public centrepiece of an extraordinary political and policy story.
That story was about the possibilities for, but constraints on, bold reform; how a...
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