When assessed by the government’s own rules, MYEFO fails. The government is spending the latest revenue windfall even though it promised not to.
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The A$1.25 billion health funding boost isn’t based on any coherent policy direction. It’s designed to shore up support in marginal electorates.
Before deciding what to study at which university, high school graduates should consider the drop-out rates, early-career employment prospects and lifetime earnings their program is likely to yield.
The government wants the power to break up power companies if they keep prices high. There’s little to suggest it would achieve much.
Were the Victorian Greens correct about pubic school funding? We asked the experts to check the numbers.
Federal Labor has promised to give rebates of up to $2,000 to 100,000 households to install batteries to store power from solar panels. Is this good energy policy, or just middle-class welfare?
Whichever party wins, Victoria’s new government will have promised the biggest transport infrastructure project in Australian history. So what are the promises and are they backed by proper assessment?
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.
Almost all states have improved their accountability in recent years, and are far ahead of the Commonwealth government.
The Grattan Institute says swapping stamp duty for land tax would make Australians up to $17 billion a year better off.
The federal government is primarily to blame for the mess that is Australia’s energy policy. It’s time for the states to step up, to reduce both prices and emissions.
Governments should stop offering false hopes and pandering to NIMBY pressures. As well as increased public and private housing supply, growing cities need well-designed higher-density development.
School education in Australia is generally good, but it should be better.
Australians are waiting too long for elective surgery, dental care and treatment for mental health. It’s no wonder health is a vote-changer.
In the election bidding wars, parties commit billions to transport projects, often before all the work needed to justify these has been done. More cost-effective alternatives hardly get a look-in.
Efforts by governments to redirect population growth to regional Australia have never worked. Even if such policies could be made to work, they probably wouldn’t be worth the costs.
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.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the Coalition’s spending on aged care as preparations for a Royal Commission into the sector get underway. We asked the experts to crunch the numbers.
Urban growth has had much less impact on commuting distances and times than media reports would suggest. The explanations include jobs being widely dispersed and residents’ adaptable decision-making.
A new report from Grattan Institute argues the secrecy and inequality surrounding who has “say” and “sway” in Canberra can be remedied – if politicians can just find the will to do it.
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Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Associate researcher, Grattan Institute
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Associate Disability Program, Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Health Program, Grattan Institute, Grattan Institute
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Deputy Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Deputy Program Director, Migration and Labour Markets, Grattan Institute
