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Democracy: How to strengthen Australia’s democracy in turbulent times
Australians cannot take the future strength and resilience of our democracy for granted. Grattan Institute's new report ‘For the people: Future-proof…
6 months ago
The Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2025 - Event Recording
On 11 December, we celebrated the official launch of Grattan Institute’s 2025 Prime Minister's Summer Reading List at State Library Victoria. Grattan…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
How to improve school attendance in Australia
On a typical school day in Australia, about 11% of students who should be at school are absent. These absences add up quickly. Missing one day of sc…
10 months ago
How to make psychosocial disability support fairer in Australia
Australia is failing more than 130,000 people with significant psychosocial disability – despite spending billions every year on the NDIS. This gap …
10 months, 1 week ago
How to fix hospital funding
Spending on Australia’s public hospitals has increased by an average of $3 billion every year in the past decade. Yet hospitals are still under strai…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Want to fix the housing crisis? Build up
Housing in Australia’s cities is among the least affordable in the world. For decades, we have not built enough housing where people most want to liv…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
How Australia can expand carbon pricing
Australia will fail to hit its climate change target of net zero by 2050 unless it imposes a constraint on emissions from the electricity sector. In …
1 year ago
Why fixing the workforce gender balance matters
Australia's workforce is almost evenly split between men and women, yet fewer than one in four Australians work in a gender balanced occupation. But…
1 year, 1 month ago
How to build a better tax system: Economic Reform Roundtable recap
This week, the Economic Reform Roundtable met to discuss how to boost Australia's productivity, where Grattan Institute's CEO spoke on four key area…
1 year, 1 month ago
Grading the 2025 NAPLAN results
Over 1.3 million students sat the NAPLAN tests in March, which provides a health check on Australia's education system. Now, the results are in. But…
1 year, 2 months ago