Uber Xploitation: Uber’s secret settlement presages a wave of lawsuits.
Callum Foote. 8 February 2021 The Government’s fetish for deregulation plays right into the hands of predatory multinationals Uber and Deliveroo, which exploit Australia’s...
Peter Whiteford. Robodebt was a policy fiasco with a human cost we have yet fully to appreciate.
Peter Whiteford Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National University 1 December 2020. The Robodebt class action bought by Gordon Legal has been settled...
Brendan Coates, Matthew Cowgill, Tim Helm. JobMaker is nowhere near bold enough. Here are four ways to expand it.
1 December 2020. The government has targeted its JobMaker Hiring Credit too narrowly. The scheme to go before the Senate this week will give...
John Hawkins. Some say neoliberals have destroyed the world, but now they want to save it. Is Scott Morrison listening?
John Hawkins University of Canberra. The International Monetary Fund this week delivered a somewhat surprising message. It warned Earth was on course for “potentially...
Hal Pawson & Cameron Parsell. Covid spurred action on rough sleepers, but increased homelessness challenges lie ahead.
Hal Pawson UNSW & Cameron Parsell University of Queensland COVID-19 triggered multimillion-dollar commitments by state governments to tackle homelessness. Our research for the Australian...
Michael Keating. Deregulation, or improved regulation?
1 November 2020. Too often, the public debate is about whether regulation should be decreased. Regulation typically exists for a reason, however, and the...
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis rejects ‘neoliberal’ economics.
1 November 2020. The new social encyclical of Pope Francis is a cry for those oppressed by poverty, hunger, and exclusion, protesting against the...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Whither Australia, with a fair go, decent work, & stable housing for everyone?
Peter Whiting. With the Federal Budget to be brought down on 6 October, the economic impact of the pandemic and the appropriate fiscal response...
Mark Diesendorf. Angus Taylor’s tech roadmap is fundamentally flawed — renewables are do-able almost everywhere.
Mark Diesendorf UNSW. The Morrison government in late September revealed the five low-emissions technologies it will prioritise for investment. The so called ‘technology roadmap‘...
Vivienne Skinner & Phillippa Carnemolla. If we realised the true cost of homelessness, we’d fix it overnight.
Vivienne Skinner University of Technology Sydney.Phillippa Carnemolla University of Technology Sydney. Australia’s six-month moratorium on evictions is due to end soon. Some states have...
Hal Pawson et al. After COVID, we’ll need a rethink to repair Australia’s housing system & the economy.
Hal Pawson UNSW, Bill Randolph UNSW, Chris Leishman, Duncan Maclennan University of Glasgow. A new report from the New South Wales Productivity Commission (NSWPC)...