In this paper, the authors investigate the impact on retirement balances and retirement adequacy from various policy changes, such as the effects of changes to the Superannuation Guarantee and superannuation taxation policies.

This research aims to provide an understanding of the scope and nature of care work performed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, the complex realities shaping decisions around unpaid caregiving, and the associated impacts on women and those around them.

With increasing numbers of Australians in or entering retirement, the modelling of functional disability and health status is critical to the insuring and financing of retirement risks for both governments and individuals. The authors of this paper used the cross-sectional data in the Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers, to estimate a multi-state transitions model...

This analysis shows that in most cases, the alleged benefits of Beetaloo gas development being touted by the NT Government, and subsidised by the Australian Government, are in direct conflict with observable, publicly-available economic data, and also with much of the economic, emissions and fiscal modelling undertaken to date.

In recent years the NDIS has faced demands to be more financially sustainable as a greater number of participants than expected has entered the scheme. This paper outlines the pressures on the NDIS relating to entry, and decisions around what constitutes ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports.