-
Subscribe to our weekly and daily Pearls and Irritations newsletter!
-
Most viewed recently
- ABUL RIZVI: Questions Ahead of Home Affairs Meeting That Never Happened
- JOHN MENADUE The myth that the Liberals are better economic managers?
- ABUL RIZVI. New regional visas – a recipe for exploitation and destitution.
- EMMA ALBERICI. There’s no case for a corporate tax cut when one in five of Australia’s top companies don’t pay it.
- MUNGO MACCALLUM. Drunken braggarts get stung.
-
Recent posts
- ABUL RIZVI. Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton have lost control of our borders. 22 April 2019
- JOHN MENADUE. Easter and the banality of evil. An edited repost 22 April 2019
- TIM BEAL. The clash of diasporas. 22 April 2019
- IAN DUNLOP, DAVID SPRATT. Is the Australian Public Service fit-for-purpose to handle existential climate risk? 22 April 2019
- ELAINE PEARSON. Australian Children are Trapped in Syria and the Government Must Bring Them Home (Human Rights Watch) 22 April 2019
Categories
- Arts and Reviews (46)
- Defence/Security (901)
- Drug Reform (30)
- Economy (1,244)
- Education (255)
- Environment and climate (479)
- Health (607)
- Housing (85)
- Human Rights (443)
- Indigenous affairs (79)
- Industrial relations (36)
- Infrastructure (202)
- International Affairs (1,962)
- Asia (361)
- Links (10)
- Media (592)
- NBN (81)
- Politics (3,084)
- Refugees, Immigration (655)
- Religion and Faith (615)
- SERIES: Freedom, opportunity and security (60)
- SERIES: Making housing affordable (15)
- Sport (56)
- Technology, start-ups and new media (6)
- Tributes (49)
- Uncategorized (223)
Archives
Recent comments
- Mary Tehan on MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Benedict’s Untimely Meditation. How His Essay on Sex Abuse is Being Weaponized
- R. N. England on JOHN MENADUE. Easter and the banality of evil. An edited repost
- Anthony Pun on ABUL RIZVI. Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton have lost control of our borders.
- Lorraine Osborn on IAN DUNLOP, DAVID SPRATT. Is the Australian Public Service fit-for-purpose to handle existential climate risk?
- Jim Oakley on ABUL RIZVI. Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton have lost control of our borders.
Tag Archives: Andrew Podger
Andrew Podger. Australia’s ‘welfare system’: Family assistance and tax elements.
Policy Series While it is important to consider our tax and transfer arrangements as a single integrated system, there are various (overlapping) parts to it: retirement incomes (including superannuation tax arrangements and the age pension), the core welfare system (pensions … Continue reading
Posted in SERIES: Freedom, opportunity and security
Tagged Andrew Podger, child-care subsidy, choice for parents, Fairness Opportunity and Security, family assistance and taxes, means-testing, Pearls and Irritations policy series
Comments Off on Andrew Podger. Australia’s ‘welfare system’: Family assistance and tax elements.
Andrew Podger and Peter Whiteford. Inequality and Australia’s Welfare System
Policy Series Inequality is a complex issue. It is affected by many factors, so that it can increase as a result of beneficial changes as well as socially undesirable ones, and can decrease because of changes that reduce overall social … Continue reading
Posted in SERIES: Freedom, opportunity and security
Tagged Andrew Podger, Fairness Opportunity and Security, indexing social security payments, Newstart, Pearls and Irritations policy series, Peter Whiteford, poverty alleviation, recent OECD comparisons, tax thresholds
Comments Off on Andrew Podger and Peter Whiteford. Inequality and Australia’s Welfare System
Andrew Podger. A fair, effective and sustainable retirement incomes system.
Fairness, Opportunity and Security Policy series edited by Michael Keating and John Menadue. In his introduction to this series, Ken Henry said he could not recall a poorer quality debate, on almost any issue, than what we have had in … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics, SERIES: Freedom, opportunity and security
Tagged aged pension means test, Andrew Podger, Fairness Opportunity and Security, Financial Services Enquiry, Pearls and Irritations policy series, retirement incomes, superannuation aged pension
Comments Off on Andrew Podger. A fair, effective and sustainable retirement incomes system.
Andrew Podger. Integrating aged pensions and superannuation.
Just as the Abbott government sorely needs a coherent health policy, welfare policy and family assistance policy, it should also put time and effort in 2015 into investing in a coherent approach to retirement incomes instead of focusing narrowly on … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged AFR, Aged Pension, Andrew Podger, Murray Report, superannuation, tax concessions
Comments Off on Andrew Podger. Integrating aged pensions and superannuation.