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Ken Henry — What Killed the Reform Era? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
Update: 2025-05-01
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This episode is the seventh instalment of my Australian policy series, recorded live in Sydney on April 29, 2025.
I speak with Ken Henry—former Treasury Secretary and chair of the landmark Henry Tax Review—about why Australia hasn’t achieved major economic reform since the GST, and what must change to restart it.
We discuss how AGI could reshape the public service, intergenerational unfairness in the tax system, the collapse in business investment, how to build a new Australian city, and the roots of Australia's long-standing policy complacency.
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