Budget 2026: Why this one matters
With the 2026 federal budget just two weeks away, Grattan Institute CEO Dr. Aruna Sathanapally joins Deputy Program Director of Energy and Climate Change Hamish McKenzie to unpack what could be one of...
30 Apr 26min
Democracy: How to strengthen Australia’s democracy in turbulent times
Australians cannot take the future strength and resilience of our democracy for granted. Grattan Institute's new report ‘For the people: Future-proofing Australia’s democracy’, shows that democracy i...
15 Apr 24min
The Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2025 - Event Recording
On 11 December, we celebrated the official launch of Grattan Institute’s 2025 Prime Minister's Summer Reading List at State Library Victoria. Grattan CEO Aruna Sathanapally was joined by ABC politics...
21 Des 20251h 23min
How to improve school attendance in Australia
On a typical school day in Australia, about 11% of students who should be at school are absent. These absences add up quickly. Missing one day of school a fortnight is the equivalent of missing four...
15 Des 202518min
How to make psychosocial disability support fairer in Australia
Australia is failing more than 130,000 people with significant psychosocial disability – despite spending billions every year on the NDIS. This gap is fuelling a growing problem. People without adeq...
8 Des 202519min
How to fix hospital funding
Spending on Australia’s public hospitals has increased by an average of $3 billion every year in the past decade. Yet hospitals are still under strain. Ambulances are ramping outside emergency departm...
24 Nov 202519min
Want to fix the housing crisis? Build up
Housing in Australia’s cities is among the least affordable in the world. For decades, we have not built enough housing where people most want to live. A lack of well-located homes is dividing familie...
5 Nov 202529min
How Australia can expand carbon pricing
Australia will fail to hit its climate change target of net zero by 2050 unless it imposes a constraint on emissions from the electricity sector. In this podcast, our energy and climate change policy...
12 Okt 202525min
