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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
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Tagged Andrew Podger, child-care subsidy, choice for parents, Fairness Opportunity and Security, family assistance and taxes, means-testing, Pearls and Irritations policy series
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tagged AFR, Aged Pension, Andrew Podger, Murray Report, superannuation, tax concessions
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