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Compelling Australians to put even more into super runs the risk of giving them a better standard of living in retirement than they had while working.
It’s not a scam. It also won’t make you fabulously wealthy. Initiative Q wants a stable private currency for payments processing rather than a vehicle for speculation.
Big social and economic reforms are rare. What’s much more common is tinkering. It happens all the time and shapes the big changes when they come.
If you rent, you are highly likely to live in poverty in retirement. If you own your own home the pension and super will probably be enough for you.
The Grattan Institute says swapping stamp duty for land tax would make Australians up to $17 billion a year better off.
As unions have shrunk, conditions for workers have got worse.
Cricket Australia promised to throw open the windows. But it is still keeping secrets behind closed doors.
We decided to dig into the statistics and compare the experience of financial stress in Indigenous and non-Indigenous households.
Our findings surprised us.
As political and legal fights over casual work crank up, it’s worth busting some myths, such as the idea that it is becoming more common.
Wanting to change a person’s autistic behaviours is like attempting to correct left-handedness or sexual preference. The modern workplace should see strength in difference.
Compare the ACCC to ASIC and it’s clear why
Rod Sims has been reappointed to a record third term as Australia’s top competition and consumer cop.
Ahead of two state elections, the Grattan Institute Orange Book examines the state of each state and how each can do things better. The good news is that if each copied the best in each field they would do very well indeed.
Former prime minister Paul Keating wants to divert an extra 2-3% of our salaries to ‘longevity insurance’. It’s what the pension was meant to be for.
We should ignore out-of-date and failed theories and test what full employment really means in 2018.
Banks have viewed their codes of conduct as non-binding statements of comfort. They need to enforce them under pain of legal penalty.
Lifting the standards of rural and remote students to the those of urban students could boost the economy by 3.3%
Calls to boycott supermarket-branded milk are misguided; and a royal commission into treatment of dairy farmers would be money wasted.
The internet has always been just about to deliver an enormous spurt of economic growth or productivity growth A new meta-analysis of 59 econometric studies finds it is yet to do so.
We need to make sure well-meaning policy responses to drought don’t do more harm than good.
We rightly expect trustees of superannuation funds to do their jobs. Much stronger behavioural controls and civil penalties are needed to ensure they do.
The strength of the Productivity Commission inquiry is that it will use an economic rather than a purely health lens.
The Reserve Bank is worried that a further tightening of lending standards could take the air out of the housing bubble quickly. Here’s how.
Menopause at work is about creating a supportive environment for women, not managing menopause.
Making it easier for holidaying backpackers to work on Australian farms will make it harder for Pacific Islanders, and increase exploitation on farms.