These students will make up a substantial part of Australia’s future workforce. And their educational performance tells an ...

Australia collects less from the GST than most OECD countries, but proposals to expand it often stall on concern that this will hit lower income households hardest. This is often termed the ...

Vested interest and ideology run through the super debate. But there is now an arguable economic case that in solving an undersaving problem, current super settings may be creating an oversaving one.

In this paper, the authors study how Welfare-to-work reforms are legislated nationally but experienced locally. They ask how the effects of Australia’s 2006 Welfare-to-Work reform varied across local ...

Australia’s recent housing tax reforms are the biggest changes to property investment taxes this century. Some commentary is framing the changes as heavily detrimental to housing investors, but our ...

There is a pragmatic, if imperfect way to unpick the now tangled knot that is GST revenue distribution to the states. And it just might be in WA's interests to be part of the reform process. Paul ...

Australians spend more time on unpaid work than on all paid work combined. The gender gap has narrowed, but women still do most of this work and the divide opens sharply when children arrive.

Means testing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been suggested as one method to reduce the scheme’s costs to government. In this research note, we use linked administrative data to ...

Australia is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of liquefied natural gas (LNG). But in the years since the LNG boom some projects have generated enormous revenues while paying little ...

Australia’s market-sector labour productivity has steadily fallen behind the US over the past decade and now trails the US by 12%. Much of this divergence occurs in manufacturing and information where ...

The Australian economy is going OK, to use the technical economic term; not great, not bad but OK. Growth is OK, unemployment remains low and inflation is a bit too high. That combination is better ...

It was a big budget so it’s understandable some critical details were lost in the noise. e61’s experts are here with the lowdown on the stories not to be missed. Reporting and public debate about the ...