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Robert Carling

Robert Carling

The Sydney Morning Herald

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NSW needs to lead the charge on reforming GST share-out

Predicting what will come out of the GST distribution methodology is like cracking the Enigma code. But small states have a vested interest in keeping...

18.03.2024 10

Financial Review

Robert Carling

Maths show supermarkets not to blame for cost-of-living crisis

The ferocity of the political campaign against Coles and Woolworths tells us more about politics than about alleged “price gouging” by the big...

28.02.2024 20

Financial Review

Robert Carling

Albanese slams door on Labor’s own tax aspirations

Labor and the Coalition once wanted to cut the top rate of tax to 40 per cent and scrap the 37 per cent bracket. That seems unimaginable now.

31.01.2024 30

Financial Review

Robert Carling

How Chalmers’ fiscal goals lost all ambition

It is striking how modest fiscal strategy ambitions have become. If we look back over 10 years, there are valuable lessons.

12.12.2023 4

Financial Review

Robert Carling

First big policy test for NSW Labor is budget repair

The Minns government has a major task ahead of it to stabilise NSW’s growing debt and avoid a credit downrating for the second most debt-burdened...

17.09.2023 10

Financial Review

Robert Carling

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