In this paper Ann Harding, Ben Phillips and Simon Kelly found examine trends in housing stress between 1998 and 2004, using specially created versions of NATSEM's STINMOD model. For the latter year, NATSEM was required to update the ABS 1999-00 and 2000-01 Surveys of Income and Housing Costs to 2004 estimates. While we employed what...

Among the changes to higher education fundiung introduced by the federal government are reforms to the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS), the income-related arrangement for the payment of student charges introduced in 1989. Gillian Beer and Bruce Chapman look at the true financial cost for different types of students and graduates of the various financing...

The average Victorian is not currently enjoying a financially comfortable retirement, according to this presentation. The Westpac/ASFA Retirement Income Index for a retired Victorian to have comfortable living standard a single person needs $631 per week while a couple need $834 per week ($417 each). More than 70 per cent of senior Victorians are nowhere...

In this study Richard Percival and Simon Kelly project the future demand for and supply of informal carers of older people in Australia. The study estimates a significant increase in the numbers of older people likely to need informal care in Australia between 2001 and 2031 along with a smaller increase in the numbers likely...

Annie Abello and Ann Harding provide new information about how family incomes and the state of poverty of Australian households with children changed from year to year in the mid-1990s. The study is based on data from the Survey of Employment and Unemployment Patterns, a longitudinal survey that followed a group of respondents between September...