22 August 2022
Let Pensioners And Veterans Shore Up Our Worker Shortage
The upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit in Australia, to be held on Sept. 1 to 2, must bring immediate reform to address worker shortages crippling Australian businesses. Australia is in the midst of a worker shortage crisis, with almost 500,000 job vacancies across the country. This is holding businesses back as they try to recover from the past two and
5 April 2018
A Universal Basic Income Would Create A Permanent Underclass
Greens leader Richard Di Natale told the National Press Club yesterday that, because of the changing nature of work, Australia should introduce a universal basic income. His proposal would be costly, unnecessary and would create a permanent underclass. A UBI is a liveable, unconditional payment to all citizens. Theoretically, a UBI could be almost cost neutral if it replaced all welfare,
26 March 2018
Five Reasons Labor’s Superannuation Changes Would Damage Australia
In a speech to the Chifley Institute last week, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten announced that the Labor Party would introduce further changes to Australia’s compulsory superannuation system.1 The key change is to abolish cash refunds for so-called excess dividend imputation credits. This means any superannuant whose tax liability is negative following the franking of dividend payments from companies would no
26 March 2018
Labor’s Superannuation Changes Would Damage Australia
Free Market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today sent a Parliamentary Research Brief ‘Five Reasons Labor’s Superannuation Changes Would Damage Australia’ to all Federal Parliamentarians. IPA research fellow Daniel Wild said, “All 15 million prospective superannuants, or those who manage their funds, would need to re-assess their investment strategies as a result of Labor’s proposed Super tax
19 August 2017
Australia’s Silent Crisis In Male Employment
Australia is experiencing a mass exodus of working-age men from the labour force, according to a landmark report released today by the Institute of Public Affairs. The report The Disappearing Australian Working Man by Institute of Public Affairs Research Fellow Gideon Rozner, argues that the official unemployment rate has become a misleading measure of joblessness, as it only measures those
19 August 2017
The Disappearing Australian Working Man
In Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis, American Enterprise Institute fellow Nicholas Eberstadt takes a close look at the rapidly growing cohort of American men who are out of work. Eberstadt argues that the overemphasis of economists and policy-makers on the official unemployment rate is hiding the true state of joblessness in America. This is because the unemployment rate measures
18 August 2017
Men Without Work
The IPA’s Gideon Rozner looks at the mass exodus of working-age men from the labour force.
25 November 2015
Australia’s middle class welfare problem
Why is $23 billion in welfare spending going towards the top 20% of income earners? The IPA’s Dr Mikayla Novak explains Australia’s welfare problem.
