This pointless $1,080 tax break should have ended years ago – but has become hard to stop
We are about to find out whether we’ll lose a tax break worth up to $1,080 a year.
We are about to find out whether we’ll lose a tax break worth up to $1,080 a year.
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If you told someone a year ago unemployment was about to dive below 5%, to just above 4%, they wouldn’t have believed you.
Sometimes the best things you can do are invisible.
Such as fighting cholera by ensuring drinking water wasn’t contaminated by sewage, as happened in London in the 1840s.
What’s the boldest thing the Morrison government could do in next month’s budget?
It would be to forecast an unemployment rate below 4% (a rate of three-point-something), then to pledge to go further, to two-point-something.