Premium Expert briefings Fully franked and fearless: Leigh pushes ‘triple dividend’ of cleaner, fairer economy Community & Social Products need to do what they say on the label, says Andrew Leigh. That includes ethical investments in clean energy.
Corporate political donations need more regulation, says think tank October 4, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry The Australia Institute says Australia is lagging behind the US when it comes to disclosure of corporations donating to political parties.
Increased coal royalties to give NSW Budget $2.9b boost September 7, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry The funds will go to ‘rebuilding the state’s essential services’, including reversing the previous government’s public sector wage cap.
Government urged to back economic growth with $6.6 billion public school investment August 29, 2023 By Melissa Coade Education Flagging school completion rates and slow economic growth can be combated by addressing the “inadequate funding” of public schools: report.
Community faith in APS to pursue public interest policies trumps confidence in consultants August 10, 2023 By Melissa Coade Community & Social New findings show nearly half of the community trusts the public service more than consultant firms to provide advice to government.
PwC’s reputational fallout hurts with new polling about government contracts June 21, 2023 By Melissa Coade Economy & Industry Four in five Australians say PwC does not deserve to win new government work, according to a new survey.
Surpluses are tools in Budgets, not inherently good, says Australia Institute May 10, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry Tuesday’s $4 billion Budget surplus was the first one in 15 years, but it will be short-lived and a deficit is expected for the next one.
Data shines light on ‘radical reversal’ of equality in Australia April 11, 2023 By Melissa Coade Community & Social New data reveals that after 2009, something changed in Australia’s economy, prompting new calls for the government to scrap Stage 3 tax cuts.
FOI senate inquiry is an opportunity for public servants to speak up March 30, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Communications & Technology The senate has voted to establish an inquiry into FOI requests, including how FOI commissioner Leo Hardiman resigned from his position.
Labor says Parliament ‘one step closer’ to climate change laws March 28, 2023 By Melissa Coade Energy & Environment Chris Bowen said the impact of the landmark reforms would be equivalent to taking two-thirds of the nation’s cars off the road by 2030.
Analysis shows just how much it costs to be a woman in Australia March 9, 2023 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Men have higher average salaries than women in 95% of all occupations, including the ones women dominate, says new Australia Institute report.
Redirect stage three tax cuts to Medicare and childcare, say Greens October 11, 2022 By Tom Ravlic Community & Social The Australian Greens want the $244 billion in stage three tax cuts spent on reducing the cost of living for everyday people.
Premium Insights and analysis Stiglitz: Small government experiment has failed July 14, 2022 By Melissa Coade Community & Social After 40 years of the doctrine of neoliberalism and small government dominating administrations, the experiment has failed and most people are worse off, said Stiglitz.
Increase in political appointments to AAT calls for reform, says Australia Institute May 18, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Federal The report found that 32% of all new AAT appointments were political during the prime ministerships of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnball and Scott Morrison.
Should Australia’s Public Service be bigger? Some say we’re batting below the average February 17, 2022 By Jackson Graham Federal Australians have been told we’ve got a big, bloated public sector, but we sit below the OECD average for public service workers, says Dr Richard Denniss.