The depiction of the baby boomers as the 'lucky generation' is wrong according to a report by Myra Hamilton and Clive Hamilton. There is a sharp divide between the retirement prospects of rich and poor boomers, with the 'lucky generation' tag being reserved for a small affluent minority. When it comes to retirement, most boomers...

The Federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act) has failed to provide adequate protection for the environment and is currently a waste of taxpayers’ money argues Andrew Macintosh. The legislation has cost taxpayers somewhere between $72 million and $180 million to administer, but after six years it has not resulted in any significant...

A report by Andrew Macintosh and Deb Wilkinson on the likely impact of proposed school voucher schemes has found that they could adversely affect education outcomes and would be expensive to implement. For several years, conservative think tanks and their supporters have been campaigning for the introduction of a school voucher scheme in Australia. Under...

Writing in the Canberra Times, Christian Downie argues that the effective removal of cross media laws will jeopardise the health of Australia?s democracy by ensuring greater concentration of media ownership and a loss of media diversity. The permeation of the traditional media players into new media markets such as the internet reinforces the value of...

In an address to the Australian Parliamentary Group for Drug Law Reform, Andrew Macintosh discusses recent trends in domestic drug markets and what they say about the effectiveness of current drug policies. In particular three illicit drugs: cannabis, heroin and ethamphetamines as they provide insights into different aspects of the effects of prohibition and have...