Written by Bryson Constable. Australia’s story of economic reform centres around the neoliberal policies enacted under Paul Keating, both as Treasurer and Prime Minister. But real, beneficial tax reform has only ever occurred under conservative-minded politicians. It was William McMahon that conducted the Asprey Review into the taxation system, John Howard who introduced the GST, and Scott Morrison who agreed to a revolutionary global 15% … Continue reading Ergo EIS: Lessons from the United Kingdom’s financial framework

Ding Dong, the Queen is dead! It was these very words that blazed through my common room as my fellow classmates chuckled at the array of Tik Tok memes that had engulfed every meta platform within hours of the Queen’s death. Sifting through the multitude of sepia images of Her Majesty, some felt it necessary to hang up commemorative pictures of the Queen around the … Continue reading Keeping up with the Windsors

In the run-up to the 1976 election, during the aftermath of the Watergate Scandal, the four-term New York state governor Nelson Rockefeller had been on a campaign trail in Binghamton, New York with the unelected incumbent’s running mate. Despite briefly being the Vice President under Gerald Ford, the growing consensus within the party was that the Governor would make a mediocre Vice President, and a … Continue reading The Rockefeller Gesture