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Tax Reform

Catalyst examines some of the myths around big business' campaign to lower the corporate tax rate in this short video.

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Poll on Corporate Tax rates

Catalyst commissioned Auspoll to conduct a survey on attitudes to corporate tax rates

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Australian Women: Getting to Equality?

2010, marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch...how far have Australian women come since the publication of Greer’s treatise? Have we ‘got to equal’?

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If Australia was a Village

Catalyst asked a group of primary school students to imagine what Australia would look like if it was a village of only 100 people.

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'Robin Hood tax' takes from the banks to give to the worthy
Written by Jo-anne Schofield   

forest_blue_sml2.jpgNearly 800 years after celebrated rogue Robin Hood and his entourage of bandits launched raids from their Sherwood Forest hide-out - redistributing wealth from a greedy and corrupt aristocracy to the starving peasantry - he has been recruited to a new campaign.

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Tax Reform: Some Problems and Options
Written by Julian Disney   

Key Impacts of Tax Policy

The main role of governments is to promote economic and social opportunities for all their citizens. This includes opportunities to learn and work, to enjoy good health and relationships, to have affordable housing and transport options, to raise children and pursue pastimes, to be treated fairly and to be helped when hardship strikes. Lack of these opportunities is the main cause, and also the main consequence, of hardship and injustice.

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Equality Speaks
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Catalyst is proud to launch the first in a series of readers: Equality Speaks

Australia may have dodged the bullet that has put the US, Britain and most European economies on life support, but our new collection of essays shows that – despite our enviable economic position – Australia is not the egalitarian paradise that many believe it to be.

Equality Speaks features an eclectic mix of writers who highlight a common challenge – to use our (relatively) stable economic times to make the shift to a fairer Australia. It includes new research on the distribution of wealth in Australia.  And it brings together some of our sharpest minds to look at paths to a more equal Australia in areas like transport, homelessness, education, women, tax, refugees, work and employment amongst others.

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