{"id":93676,"date":"2025-08-25T02:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93676\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T02:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:53:07","slug":"jim-chalmers-had-a-cunning-tax-plan-all-along-at-for-the-economic-reform-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93676\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Chalmers had a cunning tax plan all along at for the economic reform roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the paragraphs and airtime dedicated to decoding and dissecting the government\u2019s productivity roundtable, it was the Australian Financial Review\u2019s economics editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5mo2f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Kehoe<\/a>, who succeeded in perfectly summing it up in six words: \u201cModest and predictable steps were taken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was not a sequel to 2022\u2019s Jobs and Skills Summit. The cameras were (mostly) kept out of the room. The unions didn\u2019t get a rails run with pre-determined policy announcements. And business leaders participating in the roundtable were a little more realistic about what they wanted out of three days of gabbing in the Cabinet room.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of all the paragraphs and airtime dedicated to decoding and dissecting the government\u2019s productivity roundtable, it was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-93676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}