Age Pension



At the heart of the debate over higher compulsory superannuation sit big trade-offs that are too rarely acknowledged. Boosting retirement incomes inevitably comes at a… Read More ›

On Any View, the Case for Higher Compulsory Super Hasn’t Been Made

There is a case for not proceeding with, or at least further deferring, the legislated increase in employers’ compulsory superannuation contributions, the Superannuation Guarantee, from… Read More ›

Grattan Institute Attacks the Wrong Target – Pension Assets Test Is the Problem

Professor Podger’s main criticism of my paper with Iskhakov is that the income and asset taper rates that we assume in our model are far… Read More ›

Modelling the Age Pension Taper: Reply to Andrew Podger

Michael Keane’s recent Austaxpolicy piece, Better Targeting of Australia’s Age Pension, based on a CEPAR working paper co-written with Fedor Iskhakov, is flawed because it… Read More ›

No Case for Tightening the Age Pension Means Test: A Response to Michael Keane’s Analysis

It’s almost a decade since the Henry Review of the tax system recommended an increase in Newstart payments, with new rules designed to help them… Read More ›

Is Newstart Really the Pacesetter Scott Morrison Says It Is?

The Australian retirement income system has been praised as one of the best in the world. In the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index, it was… Read More ›

Better Targeting of Australia’s Age Pension

Editor’s note: This is the text of the speech given by Danielle Wood at the Women in Economics pre-Budget event, held at the National Press… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2019] Women in Economics 2019 Federal Budget Reflections

Spending on social security and welfare accounts for more than a third of the Commonwealth budget. Because of its size, it has been one of… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2019] Future Budgets Are Going to Have to Spend More on Welfare, Which Is Fine. It’s Spending on Us

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