Locked Out Of A Social Life

THEY are young, like to socialise and say they are being punished with the introduction of new trading hour restrictions at inner-city pubs that came into effect last night.

In The Herald: 1985

IN THE HERALD: 1985PSubstantial support had emerged from within the Government for an inheritance tax and clampdown on fringe benefits as part of the reform of the taxation system. But there were strong reservations in the Labor Party about the introduction of a broad-based indirect tax on goods and services. The prime minister, Bob Hawke, and the treasurer, Paul Keating, saw such a tax as a central part of the reforms, especially if imposed at the retail end, because it could provide scope for ...