Qantas results released; 2023 intergenerational report released; Voice to parliament debate continues

Staying with the treasurer, who believes the fuel excise and cigarette tax will start “trailing away” as more people started driving electric vehicles and fewer people smoked.

Jim Chalmers released the intergenerational report yesterday, which notes the tax system will be buffeted by new technologies, decarbonisation, changing consumer spending patterns and an evolving geopolitical outlook, all of which will reshape the economy.

“Some of the other taxes are obviously trailing away,…