All is not as it seems with the Turnbull government’s proposed changes to higher education funding.
Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham has argued that higher tuition fees, lower direct grants to universities and a reduced HECS repayment threshold for graduates will deliver a [...]
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Unpacking the Private Rental Investment Boom in the UK and Australia
Declining home ownership and an expanding private rental sector have been dominant global trends over the past decade. In Australia, this pattern has seen private rental expand from 21% of all households to 26% in [...]
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More than two years after all three automakers in Australia announced they were closing down their manufacturing activities here, the shutdown of the entire industry is now at hand. That last Australian-made Ford car rolled off the assembly line in Broadmeadows, Victoria last week. Holden [...]
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The census controversies are not over in Australia, but they have certainly cooled down. This is a better time to air a couple of questions that have largely remained outside the central debates revolving around this census round in general, and around the crisis of census day in particular. [...]
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Penalty rates for working on weekends were an important “sleeper” issue in the recent federal election in Australia. On the surface, both Labor and the Coalition agreed the future of penalty rates would be determined by the Fair Work Commission. But that superficial consensus couldn’t hide [...]
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A new report by the Evatt Foundation provides valuable information on the distribution of wealth in Australia. At a time when the major Australian political parties are clearly taking different positions on the importance of economic inequality, this is timely. The conservative Coalition [...]
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Malcolm Turnbull, having failed as a progressive social reformer, is now pinning his hopes for the forthcoming election largely on economic imagery. He wants to be seen as “a safe pair of hands” committed to producing more jobs and growth in the Australian Economy. But what lies [...]
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Australian progressive movements know that this federal election will be a crucial marker for many core issues: climate, jobs, inequality, fair taxation, globalisation, and more. The re-election of the Turnbull government, which has kept intact the harsh agenda of Tony Abbott but put a new [...]
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