Alzheimer’s Australia commissioned NATSEM to estimate the cost of dementia in Australia. The economic impact of dementia is a major concern nationally and internationally as the number of individuals with dementia continues to rise.

The Index of Wellbeing for Older Australians, commissioned by The Benevolent Society and prepared by The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), maps how older people are faring nationally across five domains, including education, health, resources and wealth, including housing. The most significant finding of the research is that secure and affordable housing...

This paper provides the distributional household impact of the existing Goods and Services Tax (GST) and a range of alternatives for expanding the rate and breadth of the GST.

Executive Summary This research for Anglicare Australia focusses on the changes in living standards for a broad range of family types in Australia between 2004 and 2014. The report also projects where these living standards will be by 2024 taking into account the current trajectory of Budget policy, expected demographic and socioeconomic change. We find...

This report provides interim modelling results of the distributional modelling which estimates the impact on families from government policy decisions taken since the last Federal election in 2013. Introduction This paper provides the distributional household impact of the main ‘hip‐pocket’ Budget measures contained in the 2015‐16 Federal Budget. The research involved the estimation of the...