Submission to Australian Government Treasury Department as part of the Economic Reform Roundtable Consultation
1 August 2025
PWDA welcomed the opportunity to provide views on priority reforms for consideration as part of the Economic Reform Roundtable, and support its focus on building a more productive, resilient, and fiscally sustainable economy.
The submission outlines recommendations for reform across the priority areas of:
- Improve Productivity
- Enhance Economic Resilience
- Strengthen Budget Sustainability
The overarching theme of this submission is that economic reform is essential to progressing the nation towards the healthy, secure, sustainable cohesive and prosperous future envisioned in the Measuring What Matters wellbeing framework.
Recommendations
Improve Productivity
- Recommendation 1 – Increase the employment of people with disability in the public service
- Recommendation 2 – End sub-minimum wages for people with disability
- Recommendation 3 – Ensure post school education such as University and TAFE is accessible and inclusive
- Recommendation 4 – Work with people with disability and our carers to ensure that sufficient and appropriate supports are made available to enable people to undertake employment, education and training
Build economic resilience in the face of global uncertainty
- Recommendation 5 – Reform the tax system and invest in building new accessible social and affordable homes that conform the National Construction Code
- Recommendation 6 – We recommend reforming the tax system, building more accessible public and social housing to uphold the wellbeing framework, and incentivising investment in research, industries and infrastructure that contributes to the 5 key areas of the wellbeing framework.
Strengthen Budget Sustainability
- Recommendation 7 – We recommend reforming negative gearing and phasing out CGT to save billions of dollars per year, which could be reinvested in public and community housing that becomes a community asset.
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