Australia’s ability to simultaneously claim that it is acting on climate change while also subsidising and approving major new fossil fuel projects, stems from the way successive Australian Governments have focused attention on emissions reduction targets that are arbitrary and poorly defined. This paper highlights some of the more obvious problems with Australia’s target setting.

This research report examined whether attending an Australian non-government secondary school gives an advantage in choice of career in later life. The study examined the occupations held in 2021 by the sex of the person and the sector of secondary school (Government run, Catholic, other Independent) attended in 2011.

This report presents brief statistical analyses of the first 23 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally representative longitudinal study of Australian households. The latest findings reveal that economic pressures and social shifts are changing how Australians approach key life decisions.

Since the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the care economy in Australia has expanded sharply. This paper documents three channels through which this large labour demand shock and structural change has affected the labour market over the past decade. It finds that gender gaps have narrowed in both employment and pay, especially benefiting...

An interim report that focuses on the accountability and transparency of decision-making within universities, remuneration of vice-chancellors and other senior executives and the appropriateness of Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency's (TEQSA) powers. The report makes 12 recommendations.