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2025 Federal election scorecard
Let tax reform drive your voting decision this election with the Prosper Australia 2025 policy scorecard.
2025 Budget betrays locked-out generation, kicks reform further down the road
Prosper Australia urges the government to embrace real reform that ensures prosperity is shared by all.
The Tax Shift
Over the past century and a half, politics and economics have evolved significantly in how we manage society. Yet, the core principle remains: every person born on this earth has a right to a share of its bounty.
Budget ’24: Australia Needs a Tax Shift
Prosper Australia condemns the latest Federal Budget as a missed opportunity for much-needed tax reform.
Changes to Stage 3 Not Enough: We Need a Tax Shift
Tweaking individual policies will not deliver the change Australia needs: we must capture the consensus and commit to reforming our tax system away from earned and onto unearned income.
Prosper’s 2022 Federal Election scorecard
The 2022 Federal Election: as underwhelming as a stale slice of Wonder WhiteTM encasing a slippery, budget snag. We at Prosper could never walk past a democracy sausage. No matter how greasy and cold. With the Lib/Lab reducing their respective…
A petro state without the petro dollars
On Friday 20 August, Jesse Hermans & I appeared at Senator Patrick’s Oil & Gas Inquiry. The focus of the inquiry was to evaluate what Australia could do to maximise returns from publicly owned oil and gas resources and examine how other nations have designed their tax systems. Particularly in light of climate change and the potential for stranded assets.
Turnbull Government prepares to squib on PRRT
The Petroleum Resource Rent Tax has been a successful revenue-sharing device since 1987, delivering well over $33 billion to Consolidated Revenue, derived entirely from the economic rents of resource extraction with no harm to producers. It has never deterred exploration…
Goody Goody Goody!
Sometimes, through the smoke and fireworks of the national debate a political commentator sees the path forward and points the way. Today in the Australian Financial Review, Alan Mitchell takes a far-sighted approach to the crisis provoked by the Abbott…