AARON PATRICK: The treasurer can prove his critics wrong and use a meeting of experts to make some tough-but-worthy decisions, rather than just raising taxes.
JACKSON HEWETT: Treasurer Jim Chalmers doesn’t want to rule anything in or out, apart from inheritance tax, the tax free family home and presumably the, GST, so what would transform the country?
An Israeli hospital has been damaged and an Iranian heavy water reactor hit as the escalating Middle East crisis enters the seventh day with Donald Trump still weighing up US involvement.
JACKSON HEWETT: The head of Australia’s largest bank says he welcomes tax reform but doesn’t believe a cut to the corporate tax rate is necessary to kick start lagging business investment.
Another group of Australians are set to be evacuated from Israel in the coming hours, as the Government acknowledges it will be ‘complicated’ and ‘risky to get people out of Iran.
JACKSON HEWETT: On the brink of a Middle East conflagration about to impact the world’s energy supply, Donald Trump appears to have taken his eye off his attempt to completely remake the global trading system.
National and economic security are “more closely intertwined than ever” as Australia grapples with a world of permanent “churn and change,” Treasurer Jim Chalmers warned on Wednesday.