Many older Australians enjoy incomes in their 60s of the average working 40 year-old. Younger people bear the brunt of this support. How did we get here?
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With fertility rates at a record low, many say young people aren’t having kids because they’re too expensive. Turns out, it’s not that simple.
The changing climate doesn’t just threaten younger people in the distant future, it’s happening now at a massive scale. But we can turn it around.
Intergenerational inequality is growing. Here are 5 ways young people are getting the short end of the stick.
New research surveying more than 10,000 Australians has found people feel better about the nation than in years prior, but strong divides remain.
We Should Be So Lucky is a missed opportunity to analyse the contradictory effects of the neoliberal revolution – and its challenge to founding Australian ideals.
The Family Wellbeing Program has decades of evidence backing it to help Indigenous people live better lives. Here’s how it works.
The teen social media ban is just months away, but are blanket bans or severe restrictions good policy? Well, it depends.
The challenge is not job creation, but how to find the workers we need. There’s much the government can do, from childcare to migration.
If successful, Victoria will demonstrate to the nation that truth, justice, and Indigenous self-determination can finally move from rhetoric to reality.
A new report on consultations with more than 1,000 Australians aged 12 to 25 shows how many feel excluded from society – and how to fix it.
The government will pay hundred of thousands of robodebt victims more than $500 million. But we may never know if public servants knowingly acted unlawfully.
Some estimates say up to one in seven people are living in poverty, but Australia doesn’t properly measure it. Here’s how we could.
Australia’s recent track record on implementing major reform has been patchy. Here’s what’s getting in the way.
Housing not only provides much-needed homes, it can drive the economy in a range of ways. But do harness its potential, we need to do it differently.
Fuelling these shopfronts is a thriving black market and a flawed policy approach. It’s time for viable, effective solutions.
New research shows internet access can be sorely lacking for First Nations people because of cost, poor infrastructure and little training.
As freedom of information disclosures decrease and less documents are available for public scrutiny, we need better ways to hold politicians to account.
New Closing the Gap data show Australia is on track to meet just four targets, while another four are getting worse. It’s time for a different approach.
Top contributors
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Democracy Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Deakin University
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Professor and Director of the Migration Hub, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
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Chief Executive, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University; University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Deakin University
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Project Manager, School of Psychology, Deakin University
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Professor of Political Sociology, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Professor of Housing Policy and Practice, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Lecturer and Discipline Lead (Migration), Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University