Skills to pay the bills: Migration priorities for the government at the Jobs and Skills Summit
With massive worker shortages across the country, migration is expected to feature heavily in the upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit, which brings together employers, unions, and governments to discuss t...
15 Aug 202225min
Ooh, shiny! Infrastructure projects and the not-so-shiny cost-benefit analyses
Is it worth it? It’s the question that should be asked whenever governments come up with a shiny new infrastructure idea. But too often, major projects are announced as election promises, without eval...
1 Aug 202213min
How to respond to surging COVID hospitalisations
The hospital system is at risk of breaking under the pressure of rising COVID cases. Hospitals are understaffed due to thousands of workers in isolation. Patients are being treated in corridors. Elect...
25 Juli 202219min
Putting an end to jobs for mates in Australian politics
Jobs for mates – it’s frustrating when it happens in everyday life. Even more so when it happens at the highest levels of politics. A plum job as Trade Commissioner for a former Deputy Premier. A spot...
17 Juli 202217min
A brief history of superannuation
Earlier in July, Australia’s compulsory superannuation system turned 30 years old. Alongside Medicare – Australia’s universal health insurance scheme - superannuation is held up as one of the key ec...
10 Juli 202225min
How Australia’s industrial sector can flourish in a net-zero world
With the new Albanese government committing to cut carbon emissions by 43% by 2030, along with pressure from newly elected independents and Greens MPs, there’s a sense of hope that that environmental ...
3 Juli 202224min
Where to for stamp duty reform now?
“Stamp duty is the worst tax that any government can have,” says Dominic Perrottet, recently quoted in the ABC. But after talking up stamp duty reform for the past two years, the then NSW Treasurer ...
26 Juni 202221min
Do millennials really have it tougher in the housing market? 🥑
The RBA has lifted rates by 0.5% to 0.85%, and there are more rises on the way. And nothing like a rate rise brings about the clamour that back in my day, interest rates were 17%. While talk of cuttin...
19 Juni 202217min
