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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

Australians pay too much income tax – or so some argue. The Australian Financial Review’s economics editor, John Kehoe, for example, has noted: Australians are… Read More ›

Do Australians Pay Too Much Income Tax? 6 Charts on How We Rank Against the Rest of the World

Australians born in 2012 can expect to live about 33 years longer than those born 100 years earlier. However, only seven of these additional years… Read More ›

Older Australians’ Workforce Participation, Health and Wealth Inequality

As scientific progress advances in the fields of machine learning, robot dexterity and processing power, it becomes increasingly feasible for machines to replace humans in… Read More ›

Automation Tax: Adopt With Caution

Japan ranks 120th among 156 countries in terms of its gender gap, according to the Global Gender Gap Report of 2021. The rate of women’s… Read More ›

Why Women Work the Way They Do in Japan: Roles of Fiscal Policies

So low is Australia’s unemployment rate, the official count says there are now just 580,300 people unemployed – the least since 2009, when Australia’s population… Read More ›

How Can More People Be on Unemployment Benefits Than Before COVID, With Fewer Unemployed Australians?

One of the first things Labor’s Bob Hawke did on being swept to office in March 1983 was to lift the unemployment benefit in April,… Read More ›

With Low Unemployment, Why JobSeeker Payments Need to Be Increased

The 2022-23 Federal Budget was released in a time of crisis across much of the country, and volunteers have been on the front lines. And… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2022] Budget Reveals No Plan for Disaster Volunteering

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