![]() ![]() ![]() See the common theme? Rudd, Gillard and Shorten all went up in flames trying to raise taxes, so not only did Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers promise not to do that, they promised to keep Scott Morrison’s Stage 3 tax cuts at vast expense and are showing no signs yet of breaking that promise. Together they cost Gillard her job in 2013.Īnd then Shorten’s attempt to establish a mandate for some tax increases to pay for ambitious policies at the 2019 election was a crushing failure. Julia Gillard’s replacement of it, the Minerals Resource Rent Tax, did actually become law in 2012, but was repealed in 2014, along with the “carbon tax”, or Clean Energy Act of 2011. ![]() He plucked it out of the broad and ambitious Henry Tax Review, thinking that that was all he could get away with, and it turned out he couldn’t even get away with that. Kevin Rudd’s Resource Super Profit Tax in 2010 was a debacle that cost him his job, and even that was an exercise in timidity. It’s understandable in a way – every ambitious Labor policy of the past 25 years has been punished in fact, it’s hard to think of one that has worked out. ![]() The policy courage of Whitlam, Hawke and Keating has been replaced by reviews and inquiries. Something strange and sad has happened to the Labor Party. ![]()
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