Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds
— —Years ago, in the winter of 2021-2022, parents began repeating an anti-vaxxer claim. “Infections,” they began to say, “build the immune system.”
Winter 2020-2021 had been the year of lockdowns and school closures, but by the next year, kids were sick. As 2022 progressed, the kids remained sick. As winter turned to spring, and summer, back to fall and winter again, the kids couldn’t seem to shake their seasonal and suddenly-not-so-seasonal bugs. RSV became a buzzword. Strep A seemed to be killing more children than usual. And this winter, flu and norovirus surged brutally high as the public was told to watch out for walking pneumonia.
The Black Place
— —I am in The Black Place.
The ground is white and cracked and leads to undulating gray hills. The hills stretch for miles, but I know which one I want. I spot it like my own reflection and start walking its way.
There are times I pass a mirror and don’t recognize myself. I got old too fast and saw too much. People think I’m younger than I am until they catch the look in my eye.
The Black Place has seen too much. It absorbed its dark recollections into the soil and put them on display. It is an honest mirror, reflecting the things a person is taught to hide, and making them seem beautiful again.
Mexico’s lawsuit against gun makers and distributors
— —I haven’t been able to post here for the past couple of days because I was readying an article for forthcoming publication. From the Mundane to the Unprecedented to the Lawless: Litigating Civil Cases Against Firearms Industry Actors discusses, among other things, Estados Unidos Mexicanos v. Smith & Wesson, a case on which the U.S. Supreme Court just heard oral argument, on March 4, 2025. Here’s the abstract for my article.
Neither Force Nor Will
— Organisation: The Claremont Institute —The next chapter of lawfare has already begun. A host of federal judges have issued orders to stop President Trump’s political appointees from implementing his policies. Judge Paul Engelmayer’s initial 4-page order against the administration temporarily prevented Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from accessing department records.
And worse still, the Supreme Court just allowed a lower court to command the federal government to disburse foreign aid before ruling whether the president’s attempt to withhold the funds was lawful. Justice Alito’s dissent excoriated the Court’s abdication of responsibility as “a most unfortunate misstep that rewards an act of judicial hubris and imposes a $2 billion penalty on American taxpayers.”
The ensuing struggle for executive power over the next few years will determine whether presidential elections have lasting consequences.
This latest round of chipping away at the executive power builds on the last century of judicial activism. What started in the 20th century with progressive darlings on the Supreme Court like Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter reached full bloom during the infamous Warren Court.
ODOT and WSDOT are hiding further Interstate Bridge cost overruns
— Publication: City Observatory —The cost of the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) is going up: But we won’t tell you how much . . . And we’re not going to tell you until after the 2025 Legislature adjourns
In January, 2024, IBR official publicly acknowledged that their 13 month-old cost estimate of up to $7.5 billion was wrong, and promised a new estimate “later this summer.”
It’s now a year later, and IBR officials have said their new estimate won’t be done until about June 2025.
IBR officials are keeping secret the new higher cost until after the Oregon and Washington Legislatures adjourn. ODOT has specifically excluded any mention of additional funding for the IBR project from its presentations to legislative committees contemplating a new finance plan for ODOT for the 2025 session.
ODOT is touting a Biden Administration announcement of a $1.5 billion federal grant for the project. But the project’s price tag is rising faster than it is finding money to pay for the bridge. And Oregon and Washington will be holding the bag for any cost increases or toll revenues shortfalls.
Analysis: Will 2025 be a good or bad year for women workers in Australia?
— Organisation: The Australia Institute —In 2024 we saw some welcome developments for working women, led by government reforms.
Benefits from these changes will continue in 2025. However, this year, technological, social and political changes may challenge working women’s economic security and threaten progress
towards gender equality at work Here’s our list of five areas we think will impact on women workers’ economic security in 2025.
1. AI and the digital transformation of workplaces
2024 was the year artificial intelligence really started making its presence felt in Australian workplaces. The take up of AI is likely to accelerate in 2025. Alongside benefits from innovation there are some significant risks for workers, including in sectors dominated by women.
Job displacement is likely. Some new jobs will be created but job loss and casualisation are big risks for workers unless active effort goes into planning, training and support. In numerical terms, the greatest displacements are expected to be in retail trade, administrative and support services, professional, scientific and technical services and health care and social assistance, all female-dominated sectors.
Other risks are to job quality, as algorithmic management spreads from app-driven gig work into traditional workplaces. Assisted by electronic surveillance, AI is being used in selection and recruitment of staff, allocation and direction of work, and evaluation of performance of workers.
International Women’s Day 2025: Five key issues facing working women in Australia
— Organisation: The Australia Institute —1. Care and flexibility
Working from home benefits employers and employees. Despite moves by some employers and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s claims about the public service, the Fair Work Commission is working to develop a working-from-home clause for industrial awards.
Fiona says: “It’s unlikely there’ll be a widespread return to five days in the office in 2025. We’re also expecting a continued reduction in overwork and unpaid overtime in the first full year of right-to-disconnect laws, which are expanding in August.”
2. Gender pay gap
Following reforms to the Fair Work Act, a review of wage rates in female-dominated awards is underway. New cases to address gender undervaluation of work are before the Fair Work Commission.
Lisa says: “Hundreds of thousands of women and their families will benefit from the pay increases already awarded in care sectors. The Commonwealth Government’s preparedness to fund these pay increases has been critical. Continuing commitment will be essential to further narrow the gender pay gap in 2025.”
3. Economic security for young women
Young women are more stressed by the financial squeeze than men and they’re less able to raise money in an emergency. They’re also more likely to have buy-now, pay-later debt. 60% of Australians with an outstanding HECS debt are women – and the gender pay gap means it takes them longer to pay it off.
Nurses pay more tax than the oil and gas companies
— Organisation: The Australia Institute —The oil and gas industry loves to tell everyone they pay a lot of tax, but the evidence tells a very different story.
The oil and gas industry claim their tax pays for nurses and other public sector services, but new Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more in income tax than the oil and gas industry pay in company tax and Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT).
Over the last 10 years, Australia’s nurses have paid $52 billion, or an average of $5.2 billion per year, in tax.
By contrast, the oil and gas industry, who can’t stop talking about how much tax they pay, has paid $45 billion or on average $4.5 billion per year.
It’s worth noting that almost all of the oil and gas industry’s payments have occurred in the last two years, since Russia invaded Ukraine and pushed energy prices to record levels.
While official ATO figures haven’t been released yet, the oil and gas lobby group Australian Energy Producers claims that its members paid $11.1 billion in 2022-23 and $13.9 billion in 2023-24. These lobby group figures are included in the above chart. If assessing the average annual tax payment of the oil and gas industry based on only ATO figures, that exclude the Russia war-linked windfalls, then the average is $2.8 billion per year over the ten years to 2020-21.
How the Media Walked us into Autocracy (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report
— —This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble.
The American corporate coup d'état is almost complete as the first weeks of the Trump administration exemplify. If there has been one person who saw this coming, and has taken courageous action over the years to prevent it, it would be Ralph Nader. The former presidential candidate, consumer advocate and corporate critic joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to chronicle his life’s work battling the corporate takeover of the country and how Americans can still fight back today despite the growing repression from the White House.
“The sign of a decaying democracy is that when the forces of plutocracy, oligarchy, multinational corporations increase their power, in all sectors of our society, the resistance gets weaker,” Nader tells Hedges.
Aussies not buying the Donald Dutts Show | Between the Lines
— Organisation: The Australia Institute —The Wrap with Amy Remeikis
Well, those two weeks were quite the month, weren’t they?
The headlines could cause whiplash; from a focus on the alternative prime minister’s past, to election date scuttle, to Chinese military vessels niggling boundaries, to Donald Trump making it clear to the people in the back where his America stands, it’s easy to see how quickly news fatigue can set in.
Trump, who is doing exactly as intended, is following the well-worn path his once most trusted advisor described as ‘flooding the zone with shit’, which is a strategy that boils down to hacking the media’s inability to focus when there are so many shiny headlines around.
The leopards didn’t just tell people they would eat faces, they explained how they would do it. But we have a habit in modern democracies of prescribing good faith to people running in positions we have been taught to respect. Sure, Trump is enabling an unelected foreign billionaire to rampage through the country, and by association, the world, slashing foreign aid, backing in the far right, lie about allied leaders and abandoning the principles of democracy, but did you hear he’s bringing back plastic straws?
The Week Observed, March 7, 2025
— Publication: City Observatory —What City Observatory Did This Week
Outdated rules of thumb put a thumb on the scale: Many common land use and transportation planning “rules of thumb” produce harmful results by systematically biasing our built environment toward car dependency. Five problematic heuristics include prioritizing high “level of service” for cars, building unnecessarily wide streets, requiring excessive off-street parking, overestimating car trip generation, and creating hierarchical street networks that increase trip distances.
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is…a Better Way To Teach Transportation Engineering
— Organisation: Strong Towns —
Challenging the Status Quo: The Case for Celebrating Different Developments
— Organisation: Strong Towns —
When the Household Pie Shrinks, Who Gets Their Slice?
— Organisation: Federal Reserve Bank of New York — Publication: Liberty Street Economics —
When households face budgetary constraints, they may encounter bills and debts that they cannot pay. Unlike corporate credit, which typically includes cross-default triggers, households can be delinquent on a specific debt without repercussions from their other lenders. Hence, households can choose which creditors are paid. Analyzing these choices helps economists and investors better understand the strategic incentives of households and the risks of certain classes of credit.
Sanctuary Schools Must End
— Organisation: The Claremont Institute —What do a windswept town on the plains of North Dakota and a sandy beach hamlet in Florida have in common? Aside from the fact they’re both in the U.S., they only require students to show proof of identification, residency, and an up-to-date vaccine card to enter their schools. With the exception of some states that allow for vaccination waivers, this policy has led to an unprecedented number of illegal migrant children gaining admittance to public schools across the country.
Though statistics on these demographic movements have been difficult to find, what is available suggests that the number of children of illegal immigrants attending publicly funded schools is staggering. The situation is becoming clearer with an uptick in deportation, and the Trump Administration’s stemming the tide of illegal entries into the U.S. The strain on public resources has been intensely felt—and in many school districts, the strain has become downright catastrophic.
The American Mind Podcast: The Roundtable Episode #257
— Organisation: The Claremont Institute —The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ podcast is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, Spencer Klavan, and Mike Sabo devoted to uncovering the ideas and principles that drive American political life. Stream here or download from your favorite podcast host.
Trump’s Cards | The Roundtable Ep. 257
Payments System Board Update: March 2025 Meeting
— Organisation: Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) —Australia’s economy has turned a corner. America’s is heading off a cliff.
— Organisation: The Australia Institute —On this episode of Dollars & Sense, Greg and Elinor discuss the end of Australia’s per capita recession, why the humble chickpea deserves some of the credit, and why DOGE is looking like a disaster for the American economy.
This discussion was recorded on Thursday 6 March 2025 and things may have changed since recording.
Order What’s the Big Idea? 32 Big Ideas for a Better Australia now, via the Australia Institute website.
Host: Greg Jericho, Chief Economist, the Australia Institute and Centre for Future Work // @grogsgamut
Host: Elinor Johnston-Leek, Senior Content Producer, the Australia Institute // @elinorjohnstonleek
Show notes:
‘The Reserve Bank should be looking at these numbers and wondering why it waited until February to act’ by Greg Jericho, Guardian Australia (March 2025)
Roundtable: Public BankingA Radically Open Future? The US Public Banking Movement and the Creation of Economic Alternatives
— Organisation: Just Money —Franziska Paul and Andrew Cumbers
More “Roundtable: Public Banking
A Radically Open Future? The US Public Banking Movement and the Creation of Economic Alternatives”
Hitler All the Way Down
— Organisation: The Claremont Institute —The grotesque banalization of Hitler and Hitlerism proceeds apace. The American Left’s discourse is replete with comparisons of President Donald J. Trump to Adolf Hitler and constant evocations of a dangerous “fascist” threat to democracy supposedly coming from an altogether illiberal Right. Kamala Harris labeled Trump a fascist and Nazi sympathizer in a CNN town hall meeting in October, and she and the mainstream media continued to pile on until the November election.
When Trump held a rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on October 27, a little over a week before the election, many Democrats, and the increasingly hysterical talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, compared that rally to a meeting of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund in that same venue in 1939. Completely disregarding the impressively multiracial character of the MAGA supporters gathered to hear Trump, as well as the large contingent of Orthodox and Hassidic Jews also in attendance, the media incessantly identified Trump with Hitler and “fascism.” Not only was the deep-seated evil that was National Socialism trivialized beyond recognition, and not only was fascism crudely (and absurdly) identified with any opposition to a hard Left agenda, but crucial distinctions between fascism, National Socialism, and democratic conservatism were elided in a deeply misleading manner.
What can the city of Dhaka teach us about public sector capacity?
— Organisation: UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) —
By Anna Goulden
Home to over 40% of Bangladesh’s urban population, Dhaka is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. After being voted the 7th most ‘unliveable’ city globally by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2023, public officials in Dhaka are under increasing pressure to improve quality of lives for the citizens they serve. At the same time, the city is facing a range of environmental, political and demographic challenges. And its population continues to grow, exacerbated by climate-displacement and uneven economic opportunities driving much of the country’s population to its capital.
Firms’ Inflation Expectations Have Picked Up
— Organisation: Federal Reserve Bank of New York — Publication: Liberty Street Economics —Editors note: Since this post was published, we clarified language in the first paragraph about year-ahead expectations for manufacturing and service firms in the 2025 survey. We also corrected the y-axis range of Chart 2. (March 5, 11 a.m.)
Action through art: how arts-based initiatives promote gender equality
— Publication: Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALIGN) —Tackling America’s Looming Debt Crisis
— Organisation: The Claremont Institute —On Super Bowl Sunday, President Trump announced that the penny, a coin that has been in circulation since 1792, will no longer be minted. For as long as America has had a penny, it has also had a national debt, and there has recently been a discussion of how much debt is too much.
The penny has become a microcosm of our financial issues. We collect a penny in revenue but incur three cents in costs. The penny-minting business runs a deficit, just like much else in Washington.
In order to keep our financial system operating smoothly, it is time for Washington to address the question of the debt limit.
Always a political minefield, Congress is supposed to set the credit limit on its own credit card. But for eight of the last ten years, it has given itself unlimited credit by suspending the limit altogether. Congress is now considering raising the debt limit beyond the existing $36 trillion.
But how far can Congress safely go?
In our personal lives, we are all aware that there is a limit to how much can be borrowed on a house or automobile. A banker will ask two questions before approving your loan: how much you earn and what you owe. He is seeking to determine if you have the capacity to handle a certain amount of debt.
Our 2025 list from A to Z of everything that causes gentrification
— Publication: City Observatory —Gentrification: Here’s your all-purpose list, from artists to zoning, of who and what’s to blame
We first published this list in 2019, but the realm of suggested scapegoats has expanded, and now includes fire, gray paint, little libraries and microbreweries.
When bad things happen, we look around for someone to blame. And when it comes to gentrification, which is loosely defined as somebody not like you moving into your neighborhood, there’s no shortage of things to blame. We’ve compiled a long—but far from exhaustive—list of the things that people have blamed for causing gentrification. (This task has been made easier by the seemingly inexhaustible editorial/journalistic appetite for stories pitched as exploring the gentrification of “X”, although an essay at Jacobin branding graphic novels as the “gentrification of comic books” seems to represent the moment that this meme has jumped its shark.)
Protests: Start Here
— Organisation: The Commons Social Change Library —Introduction
Protest is powerful! This guide connects you with resources about the impact of protest, how to organise protests, making protest strategic, and protecting the rights and safety of protesters.
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. – Angela Davis
Before you jump in we’d like to remind you that protest can take many forms. Gene Sharp defined 198 Methods of Noviolent Action and there are many more. All kinds of people engage in protest, for all sorts of reasons. Protests can channel outrage and anger as well as grief, compassion, solidarity, humour and more.
Protests are important for the messages they send to powerholders, but also for the connections between the people taking action. Feeling part of something bigger than ourselves, instead of being isolated individuals, can be empowering and life changing.
The pros and cons of minority government with David Pocock and Tony Windsor
— Organisation: The Australia Institute —Independent Senator David Pocock and Tony Windsor AM, former independent parliamentarian who held the balance of power during the Gillard minority government, join Amy Remeikis to discuss how they negotiate with the major parties, the growth of the independent and minor party vote, and why there’s so much fearmongering about minority governments in Australia.
This discussion was recorded live on Wednesday 26 February 2025 and things may have changed since recording.
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Guest: Senator David Pocock, Independent Senator for the Australian Capital Territory // @davidpocock
Guest: Tony Windsor AM, former Independent Member for New England // @TonyHWindsor
Host: Amy Remeikis, Chief Political Analyst, the Australia Institute // @amyremeikis
Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebonybennett
Show notes:
Victorian Government’s upzoning plans ignore crucial value capture opportunity
— Organisation: Prosper Australia —Prosper Australia today expressed deep disappointment at the Victorian Government’s continued failure to implement value capture mechanisms in its recent upzoning announcements. By allowing landowners to reap windfall gains without returning a fair share to the community, the government has missed a vital opportunity to fund essential infrastructure and public services.
The post Victorian Government’s upzoning plans ignore crucial value capture opportunity first appeared on Prosper Australia.The Cincinnatus Series: Cell Phones in Schools
— Organisation: The Claremont Institute —The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ podcast is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, Spencer Klavan, and Mike Sabo devoted to uncovering the ideas and principles that drive American political life. Stream here or download from your favorite podcast host.
Cell Phones in Schools | Cincinnatus Series Ep. 5
New Homes, Same Old Feel: Sacramento Says Yes To Incremental Development
— Organisation: Strong Towns —
Making billions yet crying poor
— Organisation: The Australia Institute —New analysis from The Australia Institute has found that private health insurers are making a killing but have managed to convince the government to let them make even more.
According to the latest data from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the biggest of them all, Medibank, recorded a pre-tax profit of $785 million last year, yet has been given permission to increase premiums by 3.99% from next month … above the average increase and above the rate of inflation.
Medibank’s profit represents a 45% return on equity, which means – in one year – it made almost half the overall amount the company’s shareholders have invested in the company.
BUPA made $607 million and is putting premiums up by 5.10%, while NIB made $289 million and will hike premiums by 5.79%.
“While Australians struggle through a cost-of-living crisis, health insurers are raking it in,” said David Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at The Australia Institute.
“They know their customers are struggling. But they obviously care more about profits.
“How much profit is enough? Medibank made three-quarters of a billion dollars yet is still putting premiums up by more than most.
“When they’re making a fortune, there is no justification for increasing premiums above the rate of inflation.
“Do they even live in the real world? This is a dud industry which is milking profit from customers’ pain.”
Big private health insurers make huge profits… but they want you to pay more
— Organisation: The Australia Institute —While Australians struggled with the cost-of-living crisis, the three largest private health insurers of Medibank Private, BUPA and NIB made pre-tax profits of $1.7 billion in 2023-24, according to APRA data.
Even with this these huge profits they continued to ask for more. The private health insurance lobby had been pushing for increases in insurance premiums beyond inflation. On 26 February the Minister, Mark Butler, permitted an average premium increase of 3.73%, which will apply from 1 April 2025. The Minister also claimed to have considered the insurers “years of record profits” yet Medibank, BUPA and NIB all received approval for above-average increases of 3.99%, 5.10% and 5.79% respectively.
The profits of Medibank, BUPA and NIB contradict the insurance industry’s claims that “nearly every dollar that comes into health insurance goes back out to hospitals, to doctors, to physiotherapists to dentists”.
Australia’s private health insurance industry is highly concentrated with the top five insurers (Medibank, BUPA, NIB and not-for-profits HCF and HBF) accounting for 79% of all premium income.
Monetary Policy in a VUCA World
— Organisation: Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) —Mini-Roundup: Nuanced Correction of Krugman Interview, Two Columbia Law Professors in the U of Chicago Law Review on my FOIA project & Attending Bloomberg Invest
— — Publication: Notes on the Crisis —
The extensive “Notes on the Crises Investigative Journalism Source Wish List” can be found here. The highest priority items on my “wish” list are currently Bureau of the Fiscal Service Parkersburg, West Virginia Budget Appropriations and current United States Treasury attorneys (including any Bureaus). All listed items are, however, important to me. As always, Sources can contact me over email or over signal (a secure and encrypted text messaging app) at my Signal username “NathanTankus.01” or with the QR code below. I will speak to sources on whatever terms they require (i.e. Off the Record, Deep Background, On Background etc.)
Why Cities Need More Than Office Conversions to Fix Their Housing Shortage
— Organisation: Strong Towns —
Confirm Elbridge Colby Now
— Organisation: The Claremont Institute —For nearly 15 years, American politicians have been clamoring for a “pivot to Asia” as they rightly recognize the growing threat posed by China, and the need to realign our strategic priorities accordingly. Yet across multiple administrations, the will fades. American leaders have instead dedicated much treasure and precious strategic attention to the latest developments in the ongoing reordering of Europe, or whichever Middle Eastern intrigue they are told will bring legacy-burnishing breakthroughs.
As the D.C. blob and the Reddit-screaming consultant class speed us toward disaster, the American people no longer countenance the breadth of international commitments their leaders cling to. The gap between what the elite wish for and what the people will tolerate is where America’s greatest risk lies. Folly, blunder, catastrophe: all are squarely in our future if we don’t act now to change course.
Our leaders’ unwillingness to make painful tradeoffs does not save us from pain—it only saves them from accountability. In fact, their choices make unavoidable pain more unpredictable, and more serious.
War’s End?
— Organisation: The Claremont Institute —The Oval Office showdown between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance was perhaps one of the most consequential spectacles of modern political history. Now that the administration has announced an end to further aid to Ukraine, many believe that Zelensky’s outburst may go down as one of the worst diplomatic mistakes in recent memory.
The claim that Trump is simply adjusting America’s involvement in Ukraine because of one bad meeting, however, is an insult to the president’s capacity for statesmanship. The seemingly intransigent impasse that has been reached is a direct result of Trump intending to keep his campaign promise to achieve a realizable peace in Ukraine, while Zelensky continues to demand an unattainable victory.
Trump came to office recognizing that U.S. support for Ukraine was always intended as a relatively low-risk way to weaken Russia through an armed proxy. If the Putin regime did not collapse due to domestic pressures, then Moscow would have a pyrrhic victory forced upon it due to significant military losses, a weakened economy, and broader international ostracization.
How to Achieve the Change we Need
— Organisation: Per Capita —The final session in the summit, Emma Dawson, Terese Edwards, Iain Walker, and Peter Lewis combine to discuss how we can take what we’ve learned from the past two days and apply it to changing the Australian tax and transfer system.
Recorded on the 21st of February as part of Per Capita’s Community Tax Summit, at Solidarity Hall at Victorian Trades Hall, Melbourne. The Community Tax Summit bought together Australian NFPs, Think Tanks, Advocacy Groups and more to kick off a “big conversation” about Australia’s tax and transfer system. There our panels of experts and those with lived experience demonstrated that there is an genuine appetite for tax and transfer reform, which is both needed and wanted in the next term of Parliament.
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Lived Experience Panel Two: Climate Change and the Regions
— Organisation: Per Capita —Our second lived experience panel explores the outcomes of the current, inequitable system, as experienced by every day Australians with regard to climate change adaptation and resilience.
Recorded on the 21st of February as part of Per Capita’s Community Tax Summit, at Solidarity Hall at Victorian Trades Hall, Melbourne. The Community Tax Summit bought together Australian NFPs, Think Tanks, Advocacy Groups and more to kick off a “big conversation” about Australia’s tax and transfer system. There our panels of experts and those with lived experience demonstrated that there is an genuine appetite for tax and transfer reform, which is both needed and wanted in the next term of Parliament.
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Katherine Trebeck: Keynote Address
— Organisation: Per Capita —Political economist, writer and advocate for economic system change, Dr Katherine Trebeck gives the final keynote address for the Community Tax Summit. Recorded on the 21st of February as part of Per Capita’s Community Tax Summit, at Solidarity Hall at Victorian Trades Hall, Melbourne.
Katherine’s roles include writer-at-large at the University of Edinburgh, Economic Change Lead at The Next Economy, and Strategic Advisor to the Centre for Policy Development. She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and also WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub.
The Community Tax Summit bought together Australian NFPs, Think Tanks, Advocacy Groups and more to kick off a “big conversation” about Australia’s tax and transfer system. There our panels of experts and those with lived experience demonstrated that there is an genuine appetite for tax and transfer reform, which is both needed and wanted in the next term of Parliament.
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International Taxation
— Organisation: Per Capita —Tax Justice Network Australia’s Mark Zirnsak, Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research’s Jason Ward, Oxfam Australia’s Josie Lee, and Professor Grantley Taylor join the panel on International Taxation. Recorded on the 21st of February as part of Per Capita’s Community Tax Summit, at Solidarity Hall at Victorian Trades Hall, Melbourne.
The Community Tax Summit bought together Australian NFPs, Think Tanks, Advocacy Groups and more to kick off a “big conversation” about Australia’s tax and transfer system. There our panels of experts and those with lived experience demonstrated that there is an genuine appetite for tax and transfer reform, which is both needed and wanted in the next term of Parliament.
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