Rather than saying they pay too much tax, this report finds Australians currently claim they are paying about the right amount of tax, and their support for higher public spending has risen.

This paper measures the attitudes of Australians towards the relative merits of public versus private education, and evaluates those findings according to the established literature and data available about actual strengths and weaknesses of the two different systems.

This paper argues that increasing longevity and an ageing society together represent the demographic climate change of our time, and that without prompt and considered action on a number of fronts – political, social and economic – we risk a loss to our quality of life. Executive summary 1.8 million people aged over 85 in...

This report argues that rather than outsourcing ever more public services, governments should introduce social impact bond models within the public sector. Executive summary In one of his first major steps as Prime Minister, Tony Abbott has delivered on his promise to establish a Commission of Audit into the Commonwealth public sector. The exercise is...

Few areas of Australian public policy have undergone such rapid change as vocational education and training (VET) in recent years. The introduction of private provision, known as ‘contestability’, has radically reshaped the VET sector. Contestability was first embraced in Victoria in 2009 in response to a widespread skills shortage, with other states since following suit...