This working paper examines promotion and separation in the Australian Public Service (APS) from 2001 to 2020 by gender and for two other Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) groups - people with a disability and people from non-English speaking backgrounds. The results help deepen the understanding of the composition of the public service, EEO representation, its...

To what extent can a progressive tax and transfer system moderate the distributional impacts of uneven economic growth? The authors revisit this question in the unique Australian context of three decades of uninterrupted economic growth from 1991 to 2020.

The aim in this paper is to provide a full description of housing prices and rents across Australia from 1980 to the first quarter 2023, along with some second quarter data, and an informed explanation of these prices and rents along with major outcomes for households.

The author of this report argues that tax reform considerations need to be framed by a whole-of-tax-system perspective, and indeed at times a whole-of-tax-and-transfer-system perspective.

In this paper, the authors examine individuals’ responsiveness to marginal tax rates using the universe of Australian taxpayer records from 2000 to 2018.