Stephen Mayne

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4,460 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

Stephen Mayne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · Rates, Wars, and AGMs · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah.

Now jump ahead to Ben.

We've got a couple of questions actually, which is the the alternative to interest rates question.

Um talked about the floating GST rate as another tool with inflation and then others are getting into the the super question.

And Saul Leslake actually, the economist, he's now he's firmly on the train of changing the super contributions.

when you need to dampen inflation.

Um and he said back in the day in the fifties, um

We we used to have governments that would put up taxes to dampen inflation, but these days no government has the guts to do that.

So Saul's saying Saul's saying use super as a way of doing it and and and and whether you hand that to the RBA.

But I mean it's all totally impractical, all these solutions of

But uh it's a hot topic of discussion, Alan.

And um if you had a choice between tweaking the GST or tweaking super as the secondary inflation fighting tool given to the RBA, which would you go with of those two?

progressive though as well, isn't it?

I agree.

I'm I'm I'm gonna settle with with just do the fuel excise.

That's the one we actually have done twice.

Oh yeah,

every I haven't, mate.

You've you you might be Captain Cool, but uh there's a lot of battlers who can't afford one an E V and uh I think it's a very effective way to

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