Means Testing



Cash or bill rebates have recently been used to help Australian households struggling with the cost of living. For example, the 2024 budget had a… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2025: Household Investment Subsidies Offers a More Sustainable Solution Than Bill Rebates

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) statistics indicate that most Australian retirees utilise an account-based pension (ABP) in the retirement phase of superannuation. An ABP allows… Read More ›

Incoherence in Age Pension Means Testing: A Potential Solution

The Productivity Commission’s report, A Path to Universal Early Childhood Education and Care, presents detailed information and a range of studies supporting universal early childhood education… Read More ›

Productivity Commission’s Child Care Report: An Alternative Perspective

There is a common argument that scarce resources should primarily be directed towards those in need. Providing transfers to the affluent may be perceived as… Read More ›

Should Child Benefits Be Universal or Means-Tested?

Financial stress is a persistent challenge for many Australian households. It is also a growing problem following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Around one… Read More ›

Refining Welfare Policy for Financial Stress

‘The Australian retirement income system is effective, sound and its costs are broadly sustainable’ according to the Retirement Income Review chaired by Mike Callaghan. While… Read More ›

Is Australia’s Retirement Income System Delivering on Its Potential?

For a brief period when the JobSeeker unemployment benefit was increased to $550 per week and conditionality was relaxed, Australians had access to a type… Read More ›

Has COVID-19 Opened the Door to an Australian Basic Income?

Studies seeking to measure inequality across households typically use a methodology which produces results that we argue are seriously misleading if they are intended to… Read More ›

How Equivalized Household Incomes Are Misinforming Tax and Transfer Policy

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