Daylight-saving regions do record lower consumption of electricity in the evening after the clocks move forward. NSW, ...

Women make up half of Australia’s employees but remain a minority of business owners. They account for 40% of unincorporated business owner-managers, 30% of company owner-managers and fewer still ...

As policymakers map out what’s next for road tax, we should be clear about what costs we’re charging for. Against the ...

Vested interest and ideology run through the super debate. But there is now an arguable economic case that in solving an ...

The GFC and COVID-19 shocks occurred suddenly, leaving Australia’s net debt permanently higher. Now, with environmental and geopolitical risks rising, how much fiscal room does the federal budget need ...

Australia’s recent housing tax reforms are the biggest changes to property investment taxes this century. Some commentary is framing the changes as heavily detrimental to housing investors, but our ...

There is a pragmatic, if imperfect way to unpick the now tangled knot that is GST revenue distribution to the states. And it just might be in WA's interests to be part of the reform process. Paul ...

Means testing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been suggested as one method to reduce the scheme’s costs to government. In this research note, we use linked administrative data to ...

The federal government has increased the amount of Paid Parental Leave allocated to secondary care givers, but international evidence suggests that won't be enough to substantially shift low take up ...

What happens when part of a city cuts minimum lot sizes? We study a 2014 reform where a council in Adelaide cut them from 350 sqm to as low as 150 sqm, until the policy was partly reversed in 2019.