John Passant

John Passant is a former tax lecturer and Assistant Commissioner of Taxation in charge of international tax reform in the ATO.

John is also a PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations at the ANU. He is looking into the political economy of taxation.

John’s first book of poetry, Songs for the Band Unformed, was published in 2016. You can buy signed copies from the IA online store. His second book of poetry, Whose Broken is This? will be published in late 2018.

John blogs at En Passant.

Articles written by John Passant (218)

21 March 2019 | POEM: Together we must
11 March 2019 | Morrison Government takes fearmongering to another level
4 March 2019 | Coalition ministers abandon the sinking ship
27 February 2019 | Cardinal George Pell found guilty
25 February 2019 | Julie Bishop and the Liberal Party women
23 February 2019 | PRESS GALLERY SKETCH: Why Julie Bishop isn't standing for re-election
21 February 2019 | PRESS GALLERY SKETCH: Christmas Island and the Helloworld scandal
20 February 2019 | Cormann and the Coalition play hide and seek with the truth
19 February 2019 | Paladin: Closed tenders and shady dealings
18 February 2019 | The Morrison Government: Teetering around the edges of governance
15 February 2019 | PRESS GALLERY SKETCH: No questions on Closing the Gap
14 February 2019 | PRESS GALLERY SKETCH: The Medevac Bill and Banking Royal Commission
13 February 2019 | Humanity triumphs as Morrison Government defeated on Medivac Bill
11 February 2019 | Franking credits, superannuation and other legal tax 'rorts'
6 February 2019 | Banking Royal Commission: Business as usual for the Big Four
4 February 2019 | The Murray-Darling: Death by capitalism
28 January 2019 | No one is buying the Coalition's neoliberal message
21 January 2019 | Fascism, free speech and Facebook bans
14 January 2019 | Australia and the overpopulation myth
9 January 2019 | The St Kilda aftermath: Fascists and mainstream politicians
7 January 2019 | The Morrison Government takes Australia from bad to worse
17 December 2018 | Big business: Legally avoiding tax the Australian way
14 December 2018 | It's time to go, ScoMo
10 December 2018 | Neoliberalism, the ALP and the full death rattle Morrison Government
7 December 2018 | PRESS GALLERY SKETCH: The last wretched days of a dying Government
6 December 2018 | PRESS GALLERY SKETCH: The big stick Question Time
5 December 2018 | Our politicians could learn a lot from today's youth
3 December 2018 | The Coalition's 'natural' Government for Australian women
26 November 2018 | Victoria votes: Labor pushes Coalition to obscurity
19 November 2018 | Marks off Markson: Daily Telegraph accuses IA of printing 'garbage'
12 November 2018 | Women, assault and the vote-winning agenda of terrorism
5 November 2018 | The Coalition ignores workers, veterans and refugees — but not war memorials
29 October 2018 | Scott Morrison is the ad-Lib PM
22 October 2018 | The Wentworth wipeout
15 October 2018 | Will Scott Morrison fix homophobic legislation post Wentworth?
8 October 2018 | The Morrison Government, misogyny and the tampon tax trick
24 September 2018 | Prime Minister Morrison: The Removalist
17 September 2018 | Morrison's Coalition Government in complete disarray
14 September 2018 | Anthems, cartoons and systemic racism
11 September 2018 | Is Scott Morrison really the best the Liberal Party can do?
10 September 2018 | Wagga Wagga's message for the Morrison Muppet Show
3 September 2018 | PM Morrison: Ten days that did not shake the world
27 August 2018 | Prime Minister Scott Morrison: The new face of neoliberalism
24 August 2018 | Australia's latest Prime Minister
24 August 2018 | Malcolm Turnbull's last stand
22 August 2018 | PRESS GALLERY REPORT: Turnbull's Government loses will to live
21 August 2018 | PRESS GALLERY REPORT: Is Turnbull's leadership running out of energy?
20 August 2018 | What is the point of Malcolm 'Cave In' Turnbull?
16 August 2018 | More NEG lies during Question Time
13 August 2018 | #Reefgate, Joyce versus Husar and other scandals: The case for a federal ICAC
6 August 2018 | Another Bolt from the white Right
30 July 2018 | By-election blues: Malcolm Turnbull eats humble pie after Super Saturday wipeout
23 July 2018 | By-elections, backbenchers and wannabes
16 July 2018 | Thai rescue highlights humanity — but not in our leaders
9 July 2018 | The new far right: Leyonhjelm is just a symptom
2 July 2018 | Turnbull's feigned class warfare outrage
25 June 2018 | The concentration camps of Turnbull and Trump
18 June 2018 | The Turnbull Government: Those that would destroy the ABC
11 June 2018 | ANU's 'Western Civilisation' decision: A reactionary feast for the rabid right
4 June 2018 | Pauline Hanson's One Nation implodes — again
28 May 2018 | 2018 AFR Rich List: A sad indictment of Australia's rampant neoliberalism
21 May 2018 | From royal weddings to republics and revolution
16 May 2018 | The Coalition is a boys’ own club
7 May 2018 | Can Liberal MP Julia Banks – or anyone – live on $40 per day?
30 April 2018 | Could Malcolm Turnbull call an early election — and win?
23 April 2018 | The #BankingRC, the Turnbull Government and protecting the Big Four
16 April 2018 | Trump and Troika bomb Syria in the interests of 'democracy'
10 April 2018 | Dear Mr Turnbull, Happy 30th Newspoll Birthday
2 April 2018 | It's not just about the cricket: It's all about the profit
26 March 2018 | We need to talk about Facebook
19 March 2018 | Batman by-election lessons for Labor and Greens
12 March 2018 | What is International Women's Day for?
5 March 2018 | Australian politics a slut shaming disgrace
28 February 2018 | When trolling complaints to Vic Police are reviewed by troller Brett Guerin
26 February 2018 | McCormack elected Nationals leader as Barnaby 'rests' on the back bench
19 February 2018 | The decline and fall of the Liberal National Party empire
12 February 2018 | Will Barnaby Joyce resign ... and what about Turnbull?
6 February 2018 | On Invasion Day, I heard Australia screaming
5 February 2018 | Wrong, RWNJs, Bill Shorten is no Jeremy Corbyn
29 January 2018 | Trains, strikes and the right to break unjust laws
23 January 2018 | Australia Day: Changing the date changes nothing
15 January 2018 | Dutton and Turnbull are Nazi enablers
8 January 2018 | Dutton and the Coalition: Ramping up fear and racism
2 January 2018 | 2017: A year of Turnbull, Trump and rampant neoliberalism
21 December 2017 | Overlooking the real enemy: Why Dastyari is small beer
18 December 2017 | Can the Coalition or Labor draw much joy from the Bennelong by-election?
11 December 2017 | Big business tax avoiders: Is it time for the fiscal guillotine?
4 December 2017 | Turnbull backflips on banking RC and basks in Barnaby's reflected glory
27 November 2017 | #SOSManus demonstrators converge on Australian cities
24 November 2017 | Malcolm Turnbull's democracy at work — just not next week
20 November 2017 | The onward march towards equality
13 November 2017 | Dual citizenship: A neoliberal crisis
9 November 2017 | PARADISE PAPERS: How big business evades tax while the ATO does bugger all
6 November 2017 | Frydenberg and the Manus concentration camps
30 October 2017 | In defence of Barnaby
23 October 2017 | After 21 disastrous polls, when will Turnbull be replaced and by whom?
16 October 2017 | Neoliberalism, Weinstein, Trump, Turnbull and old white men that rule
9 October 2017 | What NXT? The froth and bubble that is Nick Xenophon
2 October 2017 | Politics and sport don't mix — unless donations or sponsorships are involved
25 September 2017 | Can Australia's socially democratic Left defeat neoliberalism?
18 September 2017 | Same-sex marriage will end Christmas, freedom and life as we know it
11 September 2017 | The Turnbull Government has run out of energy
4 September 2017 | Turnbull Government continues to screw over workers
28 August 2017 | Mathias Cormann warns of Labor's 'reds under the beds'
21 August 2017 | Pauline Hanson's full burqa and the rise against fascism
14 August 2017 | Love, war and marriage equality
7 August 2017 | Terrorism, highway robbery and the Commonwealth Bank
2 August 2017 | Our Parliament is in crisis over s44 technicality — not inequality
25 July 2017 | Doctor Who, Peter Dutton and defeating real life enemies
17 July 2017 | Mr Kelly and Mr Turnbull, people will die this winter, but not due to renewables
10 July 2017 | The Ali Fahour incident and sport's unseen violence
3 July 2017 | Tax cuts for the wealthy, wage cuts for the poor: Happy New (Financial) Year!
26 June 2017 | Lee Rhiannon, Gonski 2.0 and the battle for the soul of the Greens
19 June 2017 | Is the Grenfell Tower disaster 'corporate manslaughter'?
12 June 2017 | 'For the many, not the few': Corbyn's lesson for Australian Labor
29 May 2017 | Financial Review Rich List 2017 and Twiggy Forrest's 'philanthropy'
25 May 2017 | Mainstream media presumption of guilt threatens Pell and others' prosecutions
15 May 2017 | Rare gems like Mark Colvin and the future of the fourth and fifth estates
12 May 2017 | Budget 2017: Taking a scalpel to the poor, unemployed, students and workers
8 May 2017 | What Trumble's cringeworthy meeting with Trump means for Australia
5 May 2017 | How you can support #FairgoFairfax
1 May 2017 | Morrison's 2017 Budget debt: The good, the bad and the ugly
28 April 2017 | Anzac Day: Lest we remember
24 April 2017 | Australian values and the deceitful dogwhistling of Peter Dutton
17 April 2017 | Housing crises: From property bubbles to homelessness
12 April 2017 | United in profit: Overbooking and violent removal all part of the service
11 April 2017 | Syria: Trump's bombs and Turnbull's crocodile tears
3 April 2017 | Sally McManus, fake news and 'free speech'
31 March 2017 | Sally McManus: Australian social democracy's new hero
27 March 2017 | One Nation and the rise of fascism
23 March 2017 | Top class! Free speech is a fundamental right ... but only for the ruling Right
21 March 2017 | Should Commissioner of Taxation Chris Jordan resign?
16 March 2017 | Break unjust laws and cut the working week
14 March 2017 | Racism did not die with Bill Leak
6 March 2017 | Turnbull's war against the fair go
27 February 2017 | Penalty rate cuts: Because lowest paid workers aren't exploited enough
22 February 2017 | Is it time for the ACT to 'do a Colorado' and introduce marijuana taxes?
20 February 2017 | Midnight Oil are re-forming but Garrett's power and passion still questionable
15 February 2017 | Suffer the little children: Sexual abuse and neglect by Church and state
13 February 2017 | Coal, Trump, Pell and halal certification
6 February 2017 | Malcolm 'Trumble' Turnbull's mounting troubles
29 January 2017 | The Australian flag on Invasion Day: To burn or not to burn?
25 January 2017 | How the rise of Trump is related to indigenocide and Australia Day
16 January 2017 | Have Ley's expenses been reported to the AFP, Mr Turnbull?
10 January 2017 | Centrelink debacle: A symptom of the Turnbull Government's war on welfare
3 January 2017 | Morbid symptoms of neoliberalism
21 December 2016 | ICAC, Obeid and the criminality that is Australian politics
13 December 2016 | Could a levy on big business offset $4 billion in tax avoidance?
6 December 2016 | Bipartisan contempt for pro-refugee protesters at Parliament House
29 November 2016 | Let's not celebrate the 'rape of the soul' of Aboriginal Australia
21 November 2016 | Turnbull talks tax trash
14 November 2016 | Australia: A Trumpland in the making
10 November 2016 | Trump the False Messiah: Will he become the workers' anti-Christ?
7 November 2016 | Abolishing Section 18C: AKA free speech for the few
2 November 2016 | In defence of the Melbourne Cup
31 October 2016 | Unions, corporate self-regulation and safety: Is it a Dreamworld?
24 October 2016 | Guns for votes, ABCC and double dissolution triggers
17 October 2016 | Will Labor's ACT election win presage the fall of the Turnbull Government?
11 October 2016 | Banks say 'sorry' — so Turnbull announces tribunal instead of RC
4 October 2016 | SA blackout: The 'renewables and Labor did it' tale
29 September 2016 | SA blackout: Australia storms Right into the dark over renewables
27 September 2016 | Ban on Muslims? It's a standard Aussie response
19 September 2016 | The resistible rise of Pauline Hanson
12 September 2016 | Women's AFL and the gender pay gap
5 September 2016 | Apple's Double Dutch Irish Sandwich with a side of tax avoidance
29 August 2016 | ScoMo's taxed-nots
22 August 2016 | French burkini ban: Women measuring up and measuring women up
17 August 2016 | Gosford Anglican Church's invasion by Hansonite thugs: The new racism
11 August 2016 | First Don Dale now #Nauruleak on rampant child abuse earns global censure
8 August 2016 | The Big Four, super profits and a Royal Commission
5 August 2016 | The Oz cartoonist Bill Leak sparks social media outrage for racist cartoon
1 August 2016 | Right royal NT whitewash
27 July 2016 | NT detention: Just another atrocity
26 July 2016 | Neoliberalism and Australia's political divide
18 July 2016 | Violence against women: the Price is wrong
11 July 2016 | The Coalition, Hanson's resurrection and the rise of racism
5 July 2016 | Australians deliver reality check for major parties in cliffhanger election
27 June 2016 | Brexit, Turnbull and fake stability
21 June 2016 | Fighting systemic violence
14 June 2016 | How can there be fairness in an unfair economy?
6 June 2016 | Safe Schools, Roz Ward and the suppression of dissidents
30 May 2016 | Why not tax the rich instead of screwing the less well off?
23 May 2016 | Election 2016: Asylum seekers, AFP raids and dead cats
17 May 2016 | Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull's shaky start
12 May 2016 | Duncan Storrar: Q&A's latest social media sensation
12 May 2016 | PM Turnbull named in #PanamaPapers
4 May 2016 | A Budget of smokers and mirrors
2 May 2016 | The tax concessions Turnbull won’t abolish all overwhelmingly favour the top 10%
28 April 2016 | Has the time come to criminalise tax avoidance?
23 April 2016 | Australia as a tax haven
22 April 2016 | And what if Labor wins?
14 April 2016 | #PanamaPapers scandal applies a blowtorch to the murky workings of capitalism
5 April 2016 | The #PanamaPapers reveal the real face of capitalism — again
1 April 2016 | Income Tax: Back to 1915 with Malcolm Turnbull
23 March 2016 | The forthcoming Federal election and the ongoing attacks on unions and workers
8 March 2016 | Gay liberation, refugees and the hypocrisy of Turnbull and Shorten
12 February 2016 | Why did Turnbull dump the proposed GST increase?
9 February 2016 | The ATO offshoring jobs is the same as business offshoring profits
4 February 2016 | Why didn't The Canberra Times report on the Invasion Day protest in Canberra?
16 January 2016 | Essendon players and the fight for justice
6 January 2016 | Dear Uncle Malcolm, if you really respect women — SACK DUTTON NOW
21 December 2015 | Big business tax watch: Do corporate tax avoiders also mistreat their staff?
18 December 2015 | Tax, big business avoidance and other bruises
17 December 2015 | MYEFO: Abbott's cuts repackaged
24 November 2015 | The Grand Mufti was right
3 November 2015 | Raising the GST will hurt workers and the poor: There are other, fairer options
22 October 2015 | Turnbull on transparency: Shielding the rich and shrouding gulags in secrecy
17 September 2015 | Prime Ministerial deck chairs: What the hell is going on in Australia?
3 September 2015 | Join my jihad against this rotten Australian government
27 August 2015 | Tax cuts for the rich? Seriously Mr Hockey?
6 August 2015 | Workchoices: It's back!
28 July 2015 | The ALP and the asylum seekers
9 July 2015 | Kevin Ovenden in Greece: Europe’s ‘leaders’ have learnt nothing
5 June 2015 | Is capitalism the problem as falling returns dry up?
13 April 2015 | Stop the cuts: Tax the rich
17 January 2014 | Free speech, universities and Tim Wilson
26 January 2012 | Gillard and Abbott were never really threatened by Aboriginal protestors
17 January 2012 | Put car industry on war footing to fight global warming

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