Treasury Secretary John Fraser calls for tax reform

Monday 13 July 2015

Australian Treasury head, John Fraser, gave a speech on Friday to the 2015 Australian Conference of Economists, whereby he pushed the case for tax reform:

Unless we lift productivity growth, through reforms across all sectors of our economy, we face a future of stagnant and possibly declining living standards – a bequest to our children and grandchildren which no other generation of Australians has left.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.