Cabinet papers 1998-99: how the GST became unstoppable
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
John Howard called an election a fortnight after announcing the GST on August 13 1998, which he only narrowly won.National Archives of AustraliaTwice the goods and services tax had been rejected, the first time by Labor, which came close to introducing something similar in 1985 and then by the Australian electorate, which rejected the...
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