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The Productivity Commission this week released the health section of its Report on Government Services. But what does it tell us, and why is it important?
Poor mental health costs the Australian economy up to A$220 billion a year, according to the Productivity Commission. It will take more than piecemeal 'announceables' to fix the situation.
Australian needs a 'general safety provision' that obliges firms to be proactive, not reactive, in ensuring they supply safe consumer products.
A conservative estimate of the productivity gains from working from home suggests they're bigger than all of the reforms of the 1990s combined.
Tradespeople and others in licensed occupations would find it easier to work across state and territory boundaries next year under a plan being developed.
It isn't only because they are in worse jobs. it's also because they are earning less form businesses.
Young people’s prospects are worse than those of workers aged over 35, and worse than those of young people prior to 2008.
The Productivity Commission has released a report of its review of a national agreement on the skills workforce and the VET sector.
Australia has far more anti-dumping measures in place against China than any other country, and it is not likely to give them up.
The Tariff Board was told that if women could buy music that was cheap they would buy music that was dirty.
Mental illness makes it harder to get and to keep a job. We need more employers prepared to give people with mental health challenges a go.
The Productivity Commission has highlighted the growing burden of mental illness in Australia. But to really change things, its final recommendations should have a sharper focus on prevention.
After paying rent, more than half of low-income tenants don't have enough left over for other essentials. And the latest evidence shows nearly half of them are stuck in this situation for years.
When it comes to improving Indigenous policies and programs, Indigenous communities should be the ones evaluating government – rather than the other way around.
The Institute for Health and Welfare issued an "errata" to correct statements about inequality that were perfectly correct.
Freedom of Information documents show the Bureau of Statistics spent a good deal of effort toning down news of rising inequality. The Productivity Commission seems to have been at it too.
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg is one of the Coalition backbenchers who oppose the scheduled superannuation guarantee rise to 12%. They are looking to the retirement incomes inquiry to leverage change.
A recent Productivity Commission report showed the demand driven system of university funding didn't increase participation rates for Indigenous students. But our analysis actually shows the opposite.
University enrolments surged from 2012-2017 due to demand-driven funding. But they were would have risen anyway, perhaps just not as quickly.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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Incoming Director of the Australian Institute of Business and Economics at UQ, and Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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Professor of Finance, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
