The federal government needs to cut spending and raise taxes to rein in Australia’s structural budget deficit, according to this Grattan Institute report.

Nine months after the 2022 federal election, Australian voters finally get a look at how much the major parties spent and who funded their campaigns.

This paper concludes that trends in unionisation rates are unlikely to have contributed materially to the decline in wages growth in recent years. It is important to note that this conclusion is limited to only the most direct channel in which unions influence wages -...