This report looks at ways to make cities better places to live by increasing our opportunities to connect with other people. It examines how the design and functioning of a city – from transport networks to the availability of parks and sporting grounds to the architecture of public spaces and buildings – can help bring...

Today’s centre of high performance in school education is East Asia. Four of the world's five highest-performing systems are Hong Kong, Korea, Shanghai and Singapore, according to OECD’s 2009 PISA assessments of students. In Shanghai, the average 15-year old mathematics student is performing at a level two to three years above his or her counterpart...

This report sets out the findings of the technology assessments and reviews the implications for government policy in terms of developing and deploying low emissions electricity technology. An accompanying publication: No easy choices: which way to Australia's energy future – Technology Analysis, available on the Grattan Institute, website, assesses each of the seven low emissions...

This paper argues that the use of international units in the emissions trading scheme could potentially undermine the price floor. On 8 November 2011, the Australian Senate passed the Clean Energy Future package of 18 bills without amendment. Among other things, these bills introduce carbon pricing arrangements for Australia, starting with a fixed-price regime from...

Australia’s higher education system is entering one of its most significant years in recent history. To meet a government goal of 40% of young Australian adults holding a bachelor’s degree or above by 2025, restrictions on undergraduate student numbers have been lifted: public universities can now offer as many or as few places as they...