The Coalition’s tax plan will make the system less progressive. What does that mean?
We explain tax progressivity and its measurement.
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School funding – where the money went
From 2008 to 2017, private schools got nearly all the increase in effective school funding.
What the Coalition’s tax plan means for high-income earners and the tax system
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been dodging questions on how much high-income earners will benefit from his tax plan and what it means for the progressivity of Australia’s tax system. Here are the answers.
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Batman Climate change returns
Climate change media mentions substantially declined from 2011. But in 2019 climate change is back on the agenda.
The misleading housing statistic that just won’t die
It’s the misleading housing statistic that just won’t die. But it isn’t a claim being made by politicians in the heat of an election campaign. Instead it keeps appearing in the reports of some of Australia’s most prominent housing researchers.
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Using the right survey to measure retiree spending
A recent paper by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, using Melbourne Institute’s Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, concluded that retirees’ spending increases as they age. The implication is clear: if retirees spend more as they age, they need to save more before retirement to fund that higher spending.
How to improve dental care for kids
Australia should move to a universal dental care scheme over the next 10 years, as we recommended in our recent report Filling the Gap. But even under existing policy, there is a funded dental scheme for children. The tragedy is that it does not deliver the care it could.
Global emissions from Australian carbon exports dwarf any declines in Australia’s domestic emissions
Depending on who you ask, carbon emissions in Australia are either rising, or falling. What is undeniable is that recent increases in emissions from Australia’s fossil fuel exports dwarf any domestic reductions.
More regional Australians are moving to the city to study. Few return when they’ve finished.
More regional Australians1 are going to university when they finish school, and they are incre
The scandalous health inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Australians are pretty healthy overall, but not all Australians are equally healthy. The starkest inequality in Australians’ health outcomes is between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.