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Australia needs a big-bang tax reform package. Our new report, ‘Budget reboot: How to fund Australia’s future’, warns that Australia’s current tax system can’t meet our fiscal challenges:
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In our latest podcast, Grattan budget experts Matthew Bowes and Erin-Lea Brown discuss the benefits of a bigger, broader GST — a key recommendation from our report, ‘Budget reboot’.
Listen here: soundcloud.com/grattaninstit…
‘Across the country, state budgets are in poor shape. It’s time to revisit the GST and the federal compact with the states.’
Read Matt Bowes and Erin-Lea Brown’s analysis, published in The Conversation, here: grattan.edu.au/news/the-gst-…
Australia’s budgets are under pressure. Debt is rising, interest bills are climbing, and the costs of an ageing population and climate change are getting bigger. So how did we get here? And what would it take to fix it? buff.ly/SB9LbLP
‘Last week, the High Court found that the 2022 approval of a coal mine extension in the NSW Hunter Valley did not meet the requirements of state legislation.’
The decision has opened a Pandora’s box that won’t easily be closed: buff.ly/O4J7bXm
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"There are few better examples of what happens when politics and policy are left exposed to vested interests than community pharmacy," writes the Grattan Institute’s Peter Breadon. trib.al/6rZ0gyN
‘Technical decisions about billions of dollars of public money shouldn’t be bargained out between government and the organisations with the biggest financial stake in the result.'
Read the full analysis: grattan.edu.au/news/a-prescr…
‘Last year, the federal and South Australian governments committed $2.4 billion, already updated to about $2.9 billion, to save the Whyalla steel works and support a new future in green steel.
'It will be complex and expensive, so is it a good idea?’: grattan.edu.au/news/green-st…
Big-money campaigns keep politicians chasing donations, and risk giving major donors more influence over policy. New caps from next year will limit election spending but are set too high.
In our latest podcast, we unpack what a better cap would look like:
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The way political parties and candidates can spend during federal elections is set to change next year. For the first time, there will also be a ceiling on money in federal elections. But as Kate Griffiths explains, the trouble is that it’s set too high:
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Australian politics has a money problem.
New Grattan analysis shows that political parties collectively spent almost half a billion dollars during the 2025 federal election. Grattan expert Kate Griffiths says this creates a spending ‘arms race’. grattan.edu.au/news/australi…
There's too much money in Australian politics.
Grattan’s new policy brief, ‘Decoupling money from power’, shows how tighter caps on expenditure could finally put an end to Australia’s election-spending arms race:
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The Intergenerational Report is one of the most important policy documents issued by the federal government. You can watch our CEO, Aruna Sathanapally, give her assessment of the latest IGR on ABC TV’s Afternoon Briefing, at 4:30pm.
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‘Migration is being blamed for a lot of things it is not responsible for.’
@GrattanInst CEO Aruna Sathanapally in today’s @theage and @smh
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Potholes and the state of our roads are back in the news. Here's what we found and proposed in our 2023 report, ‘Potholes and pitfalls’: grattan.edu.au/report/pothol…
Grattan energy expert Tony Wood says Australia is struggling to manage the great energy transition without a clear plan: grattan.edu.au/news/australi…
‘After months of gas industry pushback, the federal government has made sensible changes to its much-vaunted gas reservation policy.’
Read Hamish McKenzie’s analysis, published in The Conversation: buff.ly/aaPCA2S
What's going on with the Australian economy right now?
Grattan's CEO Aruna Sathanapally spoke to ABC Radio National's Sally Sara about house prices, interest rates, productivity, and the benefits of electrification.
Listen here: abc.net.au/listen/programs/r…
Grattan energy expert Alison Reeve says that the recent spat over data centre power has exposed a hidden truth about Australia’s energy future.
Read her analysis here: grattan.edu.au/news/the-data…
One year on from her address to the Economic Reform Roundtable, Grattan CEO Aruna Sathanapally has written a piece about the tax reform progress that's been made and the challenges that remain: grattan.edu.au/news/one-year…
