Explainers & Articles

Policy blogs

• Ten charts that tell the story of Australia’s downturn. May 8, 2020.

• A timeline of global economic responses to COVID-19. March, 2020.

• 7 million people in the Pacific have no electricity. Australia can help. May 16, 2019.

• Testimony to South Australia’s Parliamentary Inquiry into Wage Theft. March 27, 2019.

• Canberra’s Pacific pivot is bereft of vision. March 12, 2019.

• Why is job insecurity so prevalent in Australia? McKell Institute, January 2019.

• Negative gearing reform has never been more necessary. Here’s why. McKell Institute, November, 2018.

• Why keeping a lid on wholesale gas prices will lower your household power bill. McKell Institute, October ,2018.

• The cost of raising a child should not be a secure retirement. The Guardian, October 16, 2017. 

• Marking superannuation available to buy a house is a terrible idea. Huffington Post, March 14, 2017.

• Explaining methodology to ABC/Conversation Fact Check. The Conversation, February, 2017.

• The budget is full of old ideas, but at least we get a new slogan. The Guardian, May 4, 2016.