What's wrong with open-plan classrooms?
If you step into a newly built school these days, chances are they look very different to your childhood classroom. Instead of a standard classroom with four walls, you’re likely find a large room th...
19 Feb 202312min
How an Australian Centre for Disease Control could prevent chronic disease
It’s a long way to the top if you want to reform the Australian health system. Prime Minister Albanese has promised an Australian Centre for Disease Control, and it’s the subject of our new report AC...
12 Feb 202322min
How to fix fuel tax
Fuel tax – you might not know much about it, but winding back the 8 billion a year in fuel tax credits given to businesses could reduce the budget deficit by 4 billion dollars. Listen as host Kat Cl...
5 Feb 202317min
How to embed small-group tuition in Australian schools
A small crack in children’s foundational learning can be exacerbated as the years go on. Unless it’s addressed quickly, children get stuck in a vicious cycle, falling further and further behind their ...
29 Jan 202319min
Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2022 - Event Recording
Listen to Grattan CEO Danielle Wood in conversation with renowned journalist Eleanor Hall, as they discuss Grattan's top six thought-provoking, compelling, and relevant books from 2022. It’s been an e...
12 Dec 20221h 27min
How to strengthen general practice in Australia
It’s hard to believe that Australia’s universal healthcare system, Medicare, is almost forty years old. Over that time, Australians’ health needs have changed significantly. We’ve got an ageing popul...
8 Dec 202217min
What the new safeguard mechanism should do
The Safeguard Mechanism is a key policy in Australia’s fight against climate change, which caps emissions from big industrial facilities and other large polluters. Greenhouse gas emitters, from LNG pl...
20 Nov 202217min
What is the motherhood penalty?
It won’t come as a surprise to the mums listening to this podcast, but there’s a price to pay for being a mother. Whether it’s the countless extra hours of unpaid labour, losing out on a promotion bec...
13 Nov 202220min
