Contributor, Monday, 9th January 2023 - Housing is widening Australia’s gap between rich and poor, but the situation can be helped, explain Brendan Coates and Joey Moloney.
Compared to the rest of the…
Contributor, Wednesday, 30th October 2019 - The Senate inquiry into Newstart is underway. It is likely to find that the typical Newstart recipient is neither young nor on it for a short time. Here, Owain Emslie and Danielle Wood…
Adrian Pisarski, Tuesday, 1st October 2019 - Adrian Pisarski, executive officer of National Shelter, rebutts a recent blog by the Grattan Institute criticising the National Rental Affordability Scheme and sets the record…
Luke Michael, Wednesday, 3rd July 2019 - The final stage of the Coalition’s $158 billion tax cut plan would make Australia’s tax system less progressive than it’s been since the 1950s, a new report says. Grattan Institute…
Krystian Seibert, Tuesday, 16th October 2018 - Even though lobbying has become somewhat of a dirty word, it can actually be a powerful force for good, and it’s time more people, communities and charities started lobbying to achieve…
David Crosbie, Thursday, 27th September 2018 - As long as the richest and most powerful have the greatest influence over national policy, the interests of our communities will be poorly reflected in many areas of national policy…
Luke Michael, Monday, 5th March 2018 - A new Grattan Institute report has recommended the government “consider reducing Australia’s current migrant intake” to improve housing affordability, but a peak housing body…
Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 26th April 2016 - Australia faces not having any realistic tax reform for the next five years after the the federal government rejected calls for changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing…
Xavier Smerdon, Monday, 13th October 2014 -
Bachelor-degree graduates of Australia’s top universities earn about six per cent more over a 40-year career than graduates of Australia’s other universities, a…
Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 30th September 2014 -
Only 14 per cent of Australians die at home, despite 70 per cent of them wanting to, and dying is more institutionalised in Australia than in most other countries, according to a new…