5 days ago
- Business
- AU Financial Review
Why Grattan Institute's bias towards tax hikes is no surprise
Treasurer Jim Chalmers' Economic Reform Roundtable, like federal politics in general, is made up of many insiders who, all dependent on the same taxpayer dollars, meet to recommend more of the same big government ideas from which they benefit.
Danielle Wood, chairwoman of the Productivity Commission, will feature prominently at the summit. If the commission's report released this week, Investing in Cheaper, Cleaner Energy and the Net Zero Transformation, is any indication, the tone of the discussion has already been set.
