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The Liberal-National Party Fightback! Package: A Distributional Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Phil Raskall
Phil Raskall*
Affiliation:
Social and Economic Inequalities Study, Centre for Applied Economic Research and Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
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Abstract

This paper examines the distributional analysis of the impact of the Fightback! package on Australian households. The paper examines the veracity of both the results presented and the analysis undertaken by the Opposition. The critique by the Treasury is investigated, as are omissions by both Treasury and the Opposition. Some attempt to measure the direction and significance of these excluded impacts is also analysed.

Type
Symposium: The Coalition Fightback Package
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , June 1992 , pp. 48 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1992

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