Housing affordability: re-imagining the Australian dream
A conversation with Grattan CEO, John Daley and Australian Perspectives Fellow Brendan Coates about their latest report. Low interest rates, policy changes and restrictive planning have doubled house ...
4 Mar 20181h 13min
Congestion in Melbourne: is it time to consider congestion charging?
Event podcast: in this Policy Pitch event, a panel of transport and infrastructure experts explored: How bad congestion is across Melbourne; at what point we should consider new strategies to manage c...
27 Feb 20181h 13min
Gonski 2.0: What Commonwealth should do (and not do) to drive improvement in school ed – Canberra
Event podcast: In this Capital Ideas event, Dr Peter Goss, Grattan Institute School Education Program Director, hosted a panel of leading policy thinkers to explore what is needed to lift educational ...
20 Feb 20181h 13min
The demand driven higher education funding system: frozen or finished? – Sydney
Event podcast: In this Forward Thinking event, a panel of experts will discussed if the demand driven system be restored. Its supporters argue that it increased access to higher education, fixed skill...
13 Feb 20181h 20min
The Commonwealth's role in improving schools
A conversation with School Education Fellow, Julie Sonnemann. The Commonwealth should not use the extra money it is spending on schools as an excuse to intervene in school education. The danger is tha...
11 Feb 201818min
The shocking truth about Australia's efforts to 'close the gap'
A conversation with School Education Program Director Pete Goss. The "gap" between Indigenous and other school students is even bigger than official figures show. Grattan research reveals that Year 9 ...
8 Feb 201813min
All complications should count: Using our data to make hospitals safer
A conversation with Health Program Director, Stephen Duckett. One in nine patients who go into hospital suffers a complication, and the risk varies dramatically depending on the hospital. An extra 250...
5 Feb 201819min
The history and future of Medicare
A conversation with Health Program Director Stephen Duckett and Fellow Hal Swerissen. February 1, 2018 marks the 34th anniversary of the beginning of Medicare. How did it begin, how has it been used p...
31 Jan 201829min
