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National affairs Australia’s failed jobs experiment Mike Steketee 16 September 2024 The Keating government’s changes to employment services – intensified by its Coalition successors — have bred inefficiency and fragmentation National affairs Increasing JobSeeker is good economics Adam Triggs 3 September 2024 The arguments against a rise in JobSeeker have proliferated, but none of them stands up to scrutiny Books & arts Fear of falling Peter Browne 20 December 2023 Why would high earners have a mistaken view of where they sit on the income ladder? National affairs Tax reform is hard, but not impossible Danielle Wood 7 November 2023 The outgoing Grattan Institute chief executive strikes an optimistic note in this year’s Freebairn Lecture

National affairs Jenny Macklin’s mythbusters Mike Steketee 10 May 2023 The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee might not have got what it asked for, but it has kickstarted an overdue debate National affairs Albo’s choice Tim Colebatch 24 April 2023 Steady-as-she-goes government is unequal to Australia’s challenges International On economics, America has moved left John Quiggin 8 March 2021 Public support for much greater government spending has grown in the United States, and the economic risks can be managed National affairs “We are just waiting. We are always waiting” Jean Ker Walsh 22 October 2020 Will ending Melbourne’s lockdown trigger more of the refugee evictions initiated by the federal government?

National affairs Post-pandemic, here’s the case for a participation income John Quiggin 18 June 2020 For less than the cost of the Coalition’s Stage 3 tax cuts, Australians can be paid adequately to look for work or participate in socially useful activities National affairs Need growth? Scrap policies that favour rich people and monopolies Adam Triggs 1 June 2020 Breaking self-perpetuating cycles of rising inequality will be key to Australia’s economic recovery National affairs A chance to do better for migrants, and for the economy Annabel Brown and Caitlin McCaffrie 25 May 2020 Covid-19 has exposed the flaws in Australia’s treatment of temporary migrants. Fortunately, a blueprint for change already exists National affairs The powerful case for a participation income John Quiggin 6 May 2020 Now the pandemic has shown “workplace reform” to be a dead end, let’s take JobSeeker and JobKeeper to their logical conclusion