Roger Wilkins
rkwilkins.bsky.social
Roger Wilkins
@rkwilkins.bsky.social
Economist working on labour, income inequality, socio-economic disadvantage and other topics. Co-Director of the HILDA Survey.
Australians are losing more of their income to tax than in decades, new report shows
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Australians are losing more of their income to tax than in decades, new report shows
Full-time workers’ average tax rates have also been steadily rising – with much of the tax burden falling on people in their mid-30s to 50s.
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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🧵 New paper: How temporary COVID lockdowns permanently shifted work patterns in Australia 🇦🇺

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June 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Anyone got an explanation for this detour we took on a flight from London to Singapore today? Looks like we were avoiding northern Turkey.
June 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Australian household incomes finally inching upwards again.
June 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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May 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM

An update on Australian household disposable income per capita. Not much impact from the Stage 3 (July 2024) tax cuts evident in the September quarter.
December 4, 2024 at 1:41 AM
This is an extraordinary picture. It shows the measure of household income per capita used to produce the Henderson Poverty Line. The post-COVID decline has us at an average income level not seen since 2009.
November 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM