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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.
Australia's Fair Work Commission concluded that cutting penalty rates would create more jobs. Our research suggests it was wrong.
A full throated inquiry into superannuation and whether we need more could be the last best thing the Coalition does.
Labor's proposed amendments to the Coalition's Protecting Your Super Bill would have cost young Australians $400 million a year.
Counterintuitively, vague incentives are often stronger than clear ones.
The Productivity Commission was only permitted to examine the efficiency of the super system. A quarter of a century on, it's time to examine the design of the system and who it helps and hurts.
Picking an dud superannuation fund can cost you about 13 years’ pay over a working lifetime, roughly the value of an apartment in Melbourne or Sydney.
Increases in super contributions come out of our own pockets. In the past Shorten and Keating have conceded this.
The strength of the Productivity Commission inquiry is that it will use an economic rather than a purely health lens.
Individual creators get too small a share of copyright's rewards. What Bryan Adams is proposing in Canada could also work in Australia to help authors get paid and keep works available to the public.
Despite recent reforms, the superannuation system is still beset with problems such as high fees and patchy performance. You need to pay attention if you want to make sure your nest egg's in the best hands.
The Productivity Commission report recommends young workers should be given a "best in show" shortlist set by a "competitive and independent process."
Treasurer Scott Morrison abandoned the proposed increase to the Medicare levy to pay for the NDIS. Here's what you need to know about how the NDIS is funded, and how cost predictions have changed.
Words matter – not just for building trust and understanding, but for weighing up legal issues. So maybe "open" and "shared" aren't the right words to use when we refer to our data.
Australia recently signed a free trade agreement with Peru and more are on the way. At the same time it is part of a global trend of stealth protectionism among developed countries.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Department of Economics, 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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Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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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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