Economy: How to fund Australia's future
Australia’s budgets are under pressure. Debt is rising, interest bills are climbing, and the costs of an ageing population and climate chang...
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Democracy: How to decouple money from power
Political parties spent almost half a billion dollars in the year leading up to the 2025 federal election. Big-money campaigns mean politici...
Housing: Axe car-parking rules to ease the housing crisis
Every night, thousands of car spaces across Australia’s cities sit empty. This is the result of state and local governments requiring new ho...
Disability: Getting better jobs and fairer wages for disabled workers
Paid work can be a pathway to independence, purpose, and connection — but Australians with disability are far less likely to be employed tha...
Health: How Australians could get a better deal at the pharmacy
Australians visit the pharmacy more than any other health service. But what's happening behind the scenes? How does the price you pay at the...
Disability: What’s happening with the NDIS?
The NDIS is one of the central fiscal bets of the federal budget. In this podcast, our disability experts discuss what the government's prop...
Energy: Part 2 – Managing the decline of gas in Australia
The Grattan energy team is back with a new podcast on their latest report, Out of gas: Managing the decline of gas in Australia. In this epi...
Energy: Managing the decline of gas in Australia
Managing the decline of gas in Australia is a multi-decade challenge. In this podcast, our energy experts detail the the tough decisions Aus...
Budget 2026: The Grattan Verdict
On Tuesday, 12th of May, Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down his fifth budget under the Albanese government. What did Grattan's exper...
Budget 2026: Why this one matters
With the 2026 federal budget just two weeks away, Grattan Institute CEO Dr. Aruna Sathanapally joins Deputy Program Director of Energy and C...
Democracy: How to strengthen Australia’s democracy in turbulent times
Australians cannot take the future strength and resilience of our democracy for granted. Grattan Institute's new report ‘For the people: Fut...
The Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2025 - Event Recording
On 11 December, we celebrated the official launch of Grattan Institute’s 2025 Prime Minister's Summer Reading List at State Library Victoria...
How to improve school attendance in Australia
On a typical school day in Australia, about 11% of students who should be at school are absent. These absences add up quickly. Missing one d...
How to make psychosocial disability support fairer in Australia
Australia is failing more than 130,000 people with significant psychosocial disability – despite spending billions every year on the NDIS. T...
How to fix hospital funding
Spending on Australia’s public hospitals has increased by an average of $3 billion every year in the past decade. Yet hospitals are still un...
Want to fix the housing crisis? Build up
Housing in Australia’s cities is among the least affordable in the world. For decades, we have not built enough housing where people most wa...
How Australia can expand carbon pricing
Australia will fail to hit its climate change target of net zero by 2050 unless it imposes a constraint on emissions from the electricity se...
Why fixing the workforce gender balance matters
Australia's workforce is almost evenly split between men and women, yet fewer than one in four Australians work in a gender balanced occupat...
How to build a better tax system: Economic Reform Roundtable recap
This week, the Economic Reform Roundtable met to discuss how to boost Australia's productivity, where Grattan Institute's CEO spoke on four...
Grading the 2025 NAPLAN results
Over 1.3 million students sat the NAPLAN tests in March, which provides a health check on Australia's education system. Now, the results are...