Exploring the relationship between the housing we want, and the housing we have, this report presents original research on the housing preferences of Australians.

For nearly a hundred years, governments have spent a lot of money trying to promote economic growth in regional Australia. This year's Federal Budget was no exception, with $4.3 billion worth of programs announced to help "unlock the economic potential of our regions". But governments are already spending more than $2 billion a year on...

Technology innovation is the key to reducing carbon emissions cheaply, according to this report based on the experience of six pollution pricing schemes in Australia and overseas. In each case, costs to reduce pollution, and actual prices, were much lower than governments and their experts expected. Governments consistently got it wrong when picking in advance...

Improving teacher effectiveness would have a greater impact on economic growth than any other reform before Australian governments, this paper argues. The improvement in student learning could lift Australian students to the top of international performance tables. An increase in teacher effectiveness of 10% would lift Australia’s education systems into the highest performing group of...

Australian cities rate highly internationally on liveability and well-being indices. State and metropolitan governments are keen to promote the liveability of their cities as a means of attracting mobile capital, skilled labour and tourists. An examination of the liveability-environmental sustainability nexus, however, suggests that Australia’s capital cities have gained their high liveability ratings while having...