This report identifies the locations around Australia in which the greatest number of vulnerable people will be affected by extreme heat. Targeting these areas for support will ensure the greatest number of vulnerable people are helped during periods of extreme heat.

This report compares Australia’s superannuation scheme and Age Pension program with the pension systems of Sweden and Norway to show that the mostly public systems of these Nordic Countries are more effective at ensuring income security for retirees. Compared to both Sweden and Norway, Australia has a significantly higher poverty rate among people in retirement.

This paper shows superannuation tax concessions help high income earners avoid tax, exacerbate income and gender inequality and come at a huge cost in foregone revenue, and recommends ending, or at least limiting, superannuation tax concessions for the top 10% of earners and those whose high super balances do not meet the asset criteria for...

This paper provides some basic background on Australia’s Red Imported Fire Ant (RIFA) problem and current policies designed to address it before critiquing the most recent economic study on RIFA eradication and showing how small changes to its methodology result in cost benefit ratios that strongly support RIFA eradication.