e61Opinion

Too much of a good thing. Is compulsory super asking us to save too much?

One Nation is proposing to let renters and mortgage holders redirect one-quarter of their compulsory contributions into ...
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Known unknowns: insuring the federal budget against future crises

The GFC and COVID-19 shocks occurred suddenly, leaving Australia’s net debt permanently higher. Now, with environmental and geopolitical risks rising, how much fiscal room does the federal budget need ...
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Budget policy

e61 Institute acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community, and pay our respects to their ...
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The new coach bounce and the Ashenfelter dip

The new coach bounce in the AFL is clear in the raw data. Over the past 3 decades, teams have gone from winning an average of ...
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How many housing investors pay more tax under the reforms?

Australia’s recent housing tax reforms are the biggest changes to property investment taxes this century. Some commentary is framing the changes as heavily detrimental to housing investors, but our ...
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The missing shocks in Australia’s Intergenerational Report

The Treasurer is set to release the 2026 Intergenerational Report (IGR) on Monday, mapping out how the Budget is expected to evolve over the next 40 years. But what the IGR’s bu ...
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Means testing the NDIS: Fiscal and distributional effects

Means testing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been suggested as one method to reduce the scheme’s costs to government. In this research note, we use linked administrative data to ...
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Use it or lose it – the paid parental leave conundrum

The federal government has increased the amount of Paid Parental Leave allocated to secondary care givers, but international evidence suggests that won't be enough to substantially shift low take up ...
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What local land use reform does, and doesn’t, do

What happens when part of a city cuts minimum lot sizes? We study a 2014 reform where a council in Adelaide cut them from 350 sqm to as low as 150 sqm, until the policy was partly reversed in 2019.
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It’s about IP and not IT: Knowledge capital and the Australia-US productivity gap

Australia’s market-sector labour productivity has steadily fallen behind the US over the past decade and now trails the US by 12%. Much of this divergence occurs in manufacturing and information where ...
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Moving to the country: Analysing regional migrant outcomes

Regional visas are a growing part of Australia’s skilled migration system, accounting for around 18 per cent of permanent migration places in 2025, up from 8 per cent in 2014. They are intended to ...