With more than 850 changes to Medicare on the cards, the system needs time to adjust. Hasty implementation may mean patients face higher gap fees.
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In a new report, we outline four important steps the government must take to achieve real change in Australia’s aged-care system.
From heatwaves to droughts to storms, climate change poses one of the biggest health threats to Australians. Yet the federal government makes no mention of it in its strategic health planning.
The royal commission into aged care has opened a priceless window for reform. A Grattan Institute report says this requires more funding, local accountability, and a louder voice for older Australians.
two views on increasing the super contribution
Michelle Grattan talks with Brendan Coates and Greg Combet about the plans to increase the compulsory superannuation contribution.
economist Danielle Wood on Australia’s ‘blokey’ budget
This week Michelle Grattan talks to Grattan Institute CEO Danielle Wood about the 'blokey' budget
Governments of the past 20 years really are less prepared to take difficult decisions than the governments before them.
A high-speed rail network in Australia would create many benefits by reshaping cities and regional communities along its route.
Without spending the money Australia will have a much higher rate of unemployment than it needs for a very long time, new Grattan Institute calculations find.
New modelling from the Grattan Institute estimates up to 75% of people employed in the creative and performing arts could lose their jobs. Why don’t they have targeted support?
The government’s retirement incomes review should concentrate on boosting rent assistance and Newstart and fixing the pension assets test. These would achieve more than boosting super.
Our model on an expert career path for top teachers would transform school education, further professionalise learning and lead to students gaining about 18 months of extra learning by age 15.
The release of political donations data reveals the impact of wealthy individuals in the 2019 federal election campaign, as well as the importance of a sizeable war chest to claim power.
Young people continue to cancel their private health insurance despite discounts to entice them to stay. Instead, we should reduce their premiums based on their likelihood of needing health care.
Health insurance costs are rising and the price of prostheses such as hip replacements are partly to blame. But there is a way to rein in costs – and give patients more choice and better devices.
The next government can make its own luck, but it needs to focus on what matters and ignore the rest.
Whoever the federal education minister after the May 18 election, he or she needs to put school funding, evidence for what works and initial teacher training front and centre.
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.
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.
The Grattan Institute says swapping stamp duty for land tax would make Australians up to $17 billion a year better off.
Principales colaboradores
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Researcher, Grattan Institute
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Director, Policy Impact, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
