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 ...

Daylight-saving regions do record lower consumption of electricity in the evening after the clocks move forward. NSW, ...

Women make up half of Australia’s employees but remain a minority of business owners. They account for 40% of unincorporated business owner-managers, 30% of company owner-managers and fewer still ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

What happens when part of a city cuts minimum lot sizes? We study a 2014 reform where a council in Adelaide cut them from 350 sqm to as low as 150 sqm, until the policy was partly reversed in 2019.

NSW is the only state still suffering from fiscal long COVID, and a slowing property market threatens its long journey back to surplus. Pity the NSW Budget’s bottom line. It’s the only state budget ...

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 ...

Tasmania’s Budget offers a glimpse of what state finances look like at the precipice. Other states and their Treasuries would do well to tune in. It’s a grim irony that Tasmania’s Budget will be ...