Superannuation is meant to help all Australians have a comfortable retirement, not help the very wealthiest pay less tax.

At a time when floods, fires and storms are growing in severity and frequency, new research by The Australia Institute reveals millions of Australians would face financial ruin if their home was impacted by a natural disaster.

The election might be over, but the next big scare campaign is just getting started. The subject this time is the Albanese government’s planned changes to taxes on superannuation.

Everyone agrees we need to do something about housing in Australia. But first we need to ask a very obvious, but often ignored question: what is housing is for?

It’s won and done.

Great countries have great institutions, but Australian universities are a mess.

There’s a simple reform the federal government could introduce to bring house prices down, according to new analysis by The Australia Institute. 

Today’s decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points is long-overdue good news for struggling home buyers. 

For many of us, the end of June will mark the return of soft plastic recycling run by the Soft Plastics Taskforce (SPT), which is made up of the three major supermarkets: Woolworths Group, Coles Group and ALDI. But this may be premature since the joint recycling strategy from the Ministry of the Environment and

For housing affordability to improve, wages must grow faster than house prices.

The Trump administration is orchestrating a colossal transfer of wealth and power to the very rich.

To end the housing crisis, governments need to stop subsidising private investors and instead directly invest in social housing. 

Labor and the Coalition went to the election with the same policy position on Tasmania’s salmon industry: support at any cost.  

The landslide win by the ALP has seen business groups come out demanding the government listen to their demands despite having provided them no support, and plenty of opposition, over the past 3 years.

The PM and the education minister have made big noises about easing cost of living pressures for Australians with large HECS/HELP debts. But they’ve been very slow to do anything about the high cost of getting a degree in the first place.

The size of the public service has been one of the sharper issues in this election campaign. But so far, the debate has been about “cuts” or “no cuts”, “working from home” or “back to the office you go”.

We discuss the latest inflation data and answer your questions about the economy ahead of election day.

We’re in the final days before the 2025 Federal Election. Sifting through slogans and dodging dreary debates, the team at the Australia Institute has put together a list of practical ideas that have been missing from the mainstream.

With the election just days away, there has been a total lack of focus on the most vulnerable in our society.

We have restricted export industries in the past.

Australia’s bloated universities are plagued with scandal and struggling under the weight of their own poor governance and financial mismanagement.