The one big reform no one discussed at Labor’s roundtable

The one big reform no one discussed at Labor’s roundtable

Virtually every economist attending last month’s economic reform roundtable in Canberra agrees on this, so why is the federal government so afraid of locking in this measure?

The one big reform not discussed at Labor's roundtable

Despite the strong support for tax reform at  last month’s economic reform roundtable, perhaps the most important single reform hardly rated a mention: a carbon tax – or, in the economists’ preferred euphemism, “a price on carbon”.