Years ago, for a major Senate hearing on tax changes like the one happening this Monday & Tuesday, both sides would jockey to get mainstream reporters to tell ‘their’ version of the story.
Australians would get some edited narrative filtered through bureaucratic media organisations.
That world doesn’t exist anymore.
The full hearing program is public (Canberra Mon 15 June, Sydney Tue 16 June).
Submissions are public. And on X we now have transparent, submission-based breakdowns of exactly where each of the 17 key organisations stand on:
• CGT changes for residential property
• CGT changes for equities & business
• The proposed 30% minimum tax on trusts & capital gains distributions
No spin. No gatekeeper deciding what’s “newsworthy.” Just the primary sources and clear analysis anyone can read and verify.
It’s up to individual Australians to make up their own minds who they believe and what good policy looks like.
I haven’t needed a single legacy media article on this hearing. The raw information and open discussion on X is better.
Fascinating how fast the information ecosystem has changed. X is the new public square.
Tagging the speakers & organisations appearing
@ACOSS @PropertyCouncil @GeoffWilsonWAM @BCAcomau @CPAAustralia @REIAustralia and all others including Tax & Transfer Policy Institute, Per Capita, Master Builders Australia, UDIA, Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, AHURI, National Shelter, Institute of Public Accountants, and the individual experts/academics on the program.
This is how policy debate should work. Open information wins.