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The increase in Australia’s permanent skilled intake that Home Affairs Minister Alex Hawke announced on budget night is a big deal, and one that will leave Australians better off.

Australia’s temporary skilled migration program is hard for businesses to use while still not protecting migrants from exploitation.

According to a Grattan Institute report, there is no particular reason to think that temporary or even “medium term” skill shortages are the best criteria for selecting permanent migrants who will live and work in Australia for decades to come.

The Morrison government has no plans to set new targets for completing the first round of coronavirus vaccines, raising concerns about the cost on the economy of a delayed vaccine rollout.

The economic toll of the pandemic has hit women harder than men, and will deepen inequalities between in the long-term.

Governments should focus on upgrading and improving existing infrastructure, according to a new paper from the Grattan Institute.

Official forecasts say unemployment won’t fall to 5.5% until 2024. JobMaker as presently configured won’t do enough to speed it up.

As the economic shock from coronavirus starts to hit home, Scott Morrison is imploring businesses to keep workers in jobs and suppliers paid.

In a contentious new report, the Grattan Institute has cast a cloud over superannuation increases, arguing they should be abandoned.

We’ve become used to each new generation of Australians enjoying a better standard of living than the one that came before it. Until now.

Lobby groups are continuing to call for the superannuation guarantee to be increased to 12% of a worker’s wages, but a new report from the G…

By Jim Minifie and Cameron Chisholm, Grattan Institute

In the drawn-out debate on the value of a company tax cut to our economy, there …