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Spending cuts must go hand-in-hand with tax reform to fix budget

Spending cuts must go hand-in-hand with tax reform to fix budget

Tightening the purse strings is great, but it won’t solve our economic problems. The scale of the challenge means a review of the tax system is...

24.03.2026 20

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

The case for national hate speech law reforms after Bondi

After antisemitic attacks in my electorate, I proposed to introduce stronger hate speech laws addressing vilification. Both major parties declined to...

12.01.2026 20

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

This is not for the Jewish community to solve alone: Allegra Spender

The federal member for Wentworth writes: Every single one of us must ask – are we in our actions, in what we say, making our country safer for each...

15.12.2025 10

WA Today

Allegra Spender

This is not for the Jewish community to solve alone: Allegra Spender

The federal member for Wentworth writes: Every single one of us must ask – are we in our actions, in what we say, making our country safer for each...

15.12.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Allegra Spender

This is not for the Jewish community to solve alone: Allegra Spender

The federal member for Wentworth writes: Every single one of us must ask – are we in our actions, in what we say, making our country safer for each...

15.12.2025 20

The Age

Allegra Spender

This is not for the Jewish community to solve alone: Allegra Spender

The federal member for Wentworth writes: Every single one of us must ask – are we in our actions, in what we say, making our country safer for each...

15.12.2025 50

Brisbane Times

Allegra Spender

In the right hands, AI can help solve the housing crisis

The Housing Delivery Authority should not be punishing employees for using AI. It should be encouraging them.

30.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Allegra Spender

As descendants of Liberal MPs, we wish the Coalition had a rational climate policy

Labor’s approach has been erratically interventionist, slow and piecemeal. The Coalition could capitalise on that by offering a credible pro-market...

11.11.2025 10

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

Will Netanyahu’s tough talk change Albanese’s approach?

21.08.2025 10

The Guardian

Allegra Spender

Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income

21.08.2025 10

The Guardian

Allegra Spender

Here’s a tax agenda for Chalmers’ roundtable

History shows that well-structured tax reform packages with clear goals can succeed both economically and politically.

20.06.2025 10

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

The five big challenges regardless of the election result

Our next parliament must be ambitious. That doesn’t mean utopianism – it means commitment to the national interest, even when it’s politically...

23.04.2025 7

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

Budget must spend political capital on economic reform

The challenge to the major parties is there. Both of them could work with independents to guide meaningful reforms through parliament.

19.03.2025 10

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

Reform must be top New Year resolution in Canberra

We cannot afford a repeat of the last election when the major parties said don’t worry, we won’t change anything.

05.01.2025 8

Financial Review

Allegra Spender