Australia has witnessed a remarkable shift in public attitudes to public spending and tax over the last two years. We no longer feel overtaxed. We want more spent on public services, especially health and education, and we are willing to pay more tax to enable that. These sentiments were first revealed in the 2014 Per...

Explores what has driven rising wages growth, why the gains were more fairly distributed, why it’s come to a halt, and what we can do about it.

Rather than saying they pay too much tax, this report finds Australians currently claim they are paying about the right amount of tax, and their support for higher public spending has risen.

This report argues that rather than outsourcing ever more public services, governments should introduce social impact bond models within the public sector. Executive summary In one of his first major steps as Prime Minister, Tony Abbott has delivered on his promise to establish a Commission of Audit into the Commonwealth public sector. The exercise is...

Few areas of Australian public policy have undergone such rapid change as vocational education and training (VET) in recent years. The introduction of private provision, known as ‘contestability’, has radically reshaped the VET sector. Contestability was first embraced in Victoria in 2009 in response to a widespread skills shortage, with other states since following suit...