Household wealth in Australia has grown strongly over the past two decades. But this growth has not been evenly distributed across the population or across the life course. This briefing examines the distribution of net worth and its key components across Australian age cohorts, with a particular focus on households aged 65 and over.

The report provides a summary of civil laws, criminal laws, reviews or reforms currently in progress, and best practice initiatives in response to antisemitism and Islamophobia in Australia – presenting anti-vilification measures for each state and territory government and the Commonwealth.

There are various proposals regarding how to reform capital gains taxation in Australia. Using data on realised capital gains in 2022 for a subset of housing investors (those holding for between one and nine years) this paper describes how four different tax systems, including the current system, would have treated individuals differently.

A detailed examination of data from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Australia’s National Accounts reveals that wage growth is not responsible for the recent uptick in inflation. It concludes that the RBA’s latest interest rate hike fails to address the bigger driver of inflation – surging company profits – but it blames the...

This paper describes the current state of Australian agriculture. Key aspects covered include its role in the broader economy, trends in production, exports, the impact of non-tariff measures, biosecurity, agricultural employment, farm incomes, industry structure, climate variability impacts, productivity, the use of natural resource management practices and sequestration on agricultural land.