Inequality



Earlier this year former prime minister John Howard described Australia’s middle class as the “biggest,” proportionally speaking, in the world. Speaking at the annual dinner… Read More ›

A Snapshot of Life in the Middle Class

Economists have known for a while that increasing globalisation leads to substantial but unequal gains and creates winners and losers. This rising inequality could be… Read More ›

Globalisation-Induced Tax Changes

If the 2019-20 Federal Budget is, as widely reported, going to set the tone for the next Federal Election, then it doesn’t appear likely that… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2019] A Budget That Supports Indigenous Australians?

The release of the Australian budget next week is so much more than a series of financial statements. It is a statement of what the… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2019] Coalition and Labor Voters Share Policy Priorities When They Are Informed About Inequality

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

The use of both industrial and service robots has been expanding rapidly during the past decade. There is little doubt that this is leading to… Read More ›

Automation and Income Inequality in a World of International Rivalry

Without measures to stop it, many of us will fall further behind. If you were going to reduce a 150-page Productivity Commission examination of trends… Read More ›

Don’t Believe What They Say About Inequality. Some of Us Are Worse Off

“We have reached a tipping point,” the secretary-general of the OECD said in 2015. “Inequality can no longer be treated as an afterthought. We need… Read More ›

Good Times, Bad Times

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