Grattan Institute researchers, Brendan Coates and Danielle Wood, outline who wins and who loses from Labor’s hotly debated tax policy.

Australia has become an economy burdened down with debt. The burden may feel light now, with interest rates so low, but as they rise it will become heavier, and slow our capacity to grow.

Labor’s shadow education minister faces the problem of working out why school reform has failed, and what a federal education minister could do about it.

Can the big political parties regain a sense of legitimacy, or have the conditions that sustained them come to an end?

A failed experiment in market-led education needs to be buried once and for all, writes John Quiggin.