Books & arts
11 December 2024
How two political consultants pushed the Democratic Party towards their imagined middle ground
Essays & reportage
10 December 2024
A taken-for-granted is being questioned at last, with implications in education and elsewhere
Books & arts
17 October 2024
Two sociologists and a teacher wrestle with meritocracy
National affairs
27 September 2024
The Monthly and the Saturday Paper are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story?
National affairs
26 August 2024
NAPLAN’s scorecard has been back in the news, but could those test results be hiding a more important failure?
Books & arts
14 June 2024
Money might bestow enormous power, but is the triumph of the wealthy complete?
Books & arts
13 June 2024
What can cross-class relationships tell us about Australia’s semi-visible inequalities?
National affairs
22 May 2024
Local councils and NIMBYs continue to cop much of the blame for housing shortages. But the full story is a bit more complicated
National affairs
3 May 2024
Before federal MPs vote on a new national schools agreement they should look at what’s happened to the schools they once attended
Books & arts
29 April 2024
Should there be a limit on how rich you can be?
Books & arts
24 April 2024
Gary Stevenson’s epiphany came once he’d joined the top ranks of London’s foreign-exchange traders
National affairs
26 January 2024
The government seems to be ignoring valuable ideas raised during consultations on its housing plan
Books & arts
20 December 2023
Why would high earners have a mistaken view of where they sit on the income ladder?
National affairs
12 December 2023
After six months investigating Australia’s rental crisis, a Senate committee failed to offer useful recommendations
National affairs
7 November 2023
The outgoing Grattan Institute chief executive strikes an optimistic note in this year’s Freebairn Lecture
Books & arts
25 October 2023
Cash-strapped microstates are selling citizenship that opens doors for the wealthy non-Western elite
National affairs
13 October 2023
The federal government has set a target of 1.2 million new homes in five years. Discussions at the National Housing Conference revealed the scale of the challenge
Books & arts
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
National affairs
13 September 2023
Labor and the crossbench have finally come together to tackle Australia’s housing crisis, but more needs to be done
National affairs
8 September 2023
The federal government needs more than conventional wisdom to craft a national housing strategy
National affairs
18 August 2023
Successive reviews of school education have promised a brighter future, but how many of them have gone back to see what went wrong last time?
Books & arts
31 July 2023
Renowned sociologist Raewyn Connell takes stock
Books & arts
2 June 2023
An enterprising school principal mistakes mastering the system for fixing it
National affairs
22 May 2023
How hard should the Greens push on housing?
National affairs
19 April 2023
Parental choice or equitable access? There’s a way of reconciling the two
National affairs
20 March 2023
The latest Productivity Commission report marks the end of an era
Essays & reportage
1 March 2023
Not-for-profit associations are taking over as providers of affordable rental housing. What can Australia learn from Britain, where the trend is well advanced?
National affairs
22 February 2023
In a remarkable turnaround, the TGA has eased restrictions on the therapeutic use of psilocybin and MDMA. But will the benefits be fairly spread?
Essays & reportage
9 February 2023
Jim Chalmers’s essay coincided with disturbing British revelations that confirmed the urgency of his concerns. But did he go far enough?
National affairs
7 February 2023
The rising number of selective government schools is harming other students. But could those schools become part of a better solution?