Graduate Winners provides a framework for public spending on higher education. It sets out when public benefit or fairness considerations justify public spending. Public benefits include higher tax revenues, graduates using their skills to assist others, and general attributes such as greater civic engagement and tolerance. In theory, government spending on higher education can create...

The carbon price is a vital step in creating a low-emissions future for Australia, but it needs further support. Investors are still struggling to overcome the risks surrounding low-emissions technologies and to get projects running at large scale and low cost. Grattan’s report seeks to enable them to cross the bridge to commercial viability. It...

This publication accompanies the main report, Game-changers: Economic reform priorities for Australia. The Supporting Analysis of this publication comprises two sections: Section 1: Analysis of economic reform priorities for Australia (Pages 5 – 55) Detailed material on each of the 25 issues considered in the main report, providing analysis that supports the placement of each...

If Australian governments want to increase rates of economic growth they must reform the tax mix, and increase the workforce participation rates of women and older people, argues this report. Together these game-changing reforms could contribute more than $70 billion to the Australian economy. Governments should concentrate their limited resources for economic reform where they...

Australian governments are under constant pressure to intervene to support the economies of particular regions, particularly those that grow more slowly. The most prominent recent example is the Commonwealth Government’s “Commitment to Regional Australia” in September 2010 1 that promised $10b over eight years, partly implemented through the Investing in Australia’s Regions package in the...