In this policy note, and for the first time, levels of housing stress, poverty and income inequality have been modelled on the new federal electorate boundaries.

VCOSS and NATSEM have launched this major report and online mapping project, providing new data and analysis. Poverty data for Victoria has been broken down, allowing policy makers to better target the needs of people in different places.

This paper estimates and compares the returns to education in Australia using standard Mincer equations for the years 2006, 2011, and 2016.

This report analyses the 2016 Census and other data using the Child Social Exclusion Index, to provide insight into the perspectives of children experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social exclusion in Australia.

On Tuesday 8 May 2018, the Australian government unveiled its budget proposal and associated vision for policy priorities. NATSEM independently modelled some selected budget measures, including the multi-step tax reform, reverted medicare levy increase and more. This brochure briefly reports some of the findings.