This report explores the perceptions of wealth inequality in Australian society and the the actual divide in wealth between richest and poorest. A collaboration between Empirca Research and Harvard Business School, the research shows that Australians dramatically underestimate the degree of wealth inequality in our society. Furthermore, when asked what they believed the minimum was...

Exploring the question of community engagement and political participation by younger Australians, this project analyses fifteen years of Newspoll surveys.

The Coalition has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by five per cent on 2000 levels by 2020. It proposes to achieve this target with a "Direct Action Plan": a competitive grant scheme that would buy greenhouse gas reductions from businesses and farmers. Over the past decade various Australian governments have announced more than seven...

From the Chair's forward When considering electoral reforms, our priority must be: enfranchisement, not disenfranchisement. It is this philosophy that has guided this inquiry and is reflected in many of the Committee’s recommendations. This report continues the tradition of examining and reporting on the conduct of federal elections and relevant legislation which has been carried...

Should we expect the current pattern of older voter support for the Coalition to continue undisturbed or might we see a movement away from the Coalition as the bulge of ‘baby boomers’ move into the ranks of older Australians and moderate this conservatism? This paper is a brief attempt to answer this question by drawing...