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 Apr 22, 2021


 Jan 18, 2020

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Everything you need to know about Australian public policy. Grattan Institute is dedicated to developing high quality public policy for Australia’s future. Our podcasts cover a range of public policy topics focusing on the main issues facing Australia. Our podcasts concentrate on budget policy, economic growth, energy, health, institutional reform, household finances, school education, and disability policy.

Episode Date
Is Australia running out of gas?
Mar 25, 2024
Why Australia should trial multi-school organisations
Mar 17, 2024
Australia's gender pay gap revealed
Mar 04, 2024
Is 2024 the year of the renter?
Feb 26, 2024
Why Australia needs a 'Reading Guarantee'
Feb 12, 2024
Grattan's Summer Series: Micheline Lee on Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity, and the NDIS
Feb 04, 2024
The Wonks' List: the best technical policy reads of 2023
Jan 21, 2024
Grattan's Summer Series: Ellen van Neerven on Personal Score
Jan 14, 2024
Grattan's Summer Series: Anna Funder On Wifedom
Jan 07, 2024
Unpacking the NDIS Review
Dec 18, 2023
What these test results reveal about Australia's education system
Dec 11, 2023
Hydrogen: a golden ticket to net zero?
Dec 03, 2023
How to close the vaccination gap
Nov 26, 2023
How to fix local roads
Nov 12, 2023
Tax Reform In Australia: An Impossible Dream? Danielle Wood's Freebairn Lecture
Nov 05, 2023
How reducing Australia’s salt intake could save lives - and money
Oct 30, 2023
Why Claudia Goldin’s Nobel win isn’t just about women in economics
Oct 23, 2023
Reforming international student visa pathways after graduation
Oct 08, 2023
Assessing the Disability Royal Commission report
Oct 01, 2023
Using government data to improve people’s lives
Sep 17, 2023
Has National Cabinet just solved the housing crisis?
Sep 10, 2023
How to create a better Australia for Generation Next
Sep 08, 2023
Decoding the 2023 NAPLAN results
Aug 27, 2023
Is the “world’s worst electric vehicle policy” really so bad?
Aug 14, 2023
What's the YIMBY movement and how can it help housing policy?
Aug 07, 2023
Why is childcare so expensive?
Jul 30, 2023
What the NAPLAN changes mean for parents and teachers
Jul 24, 2023
Why the federal government should stay in its lane on infrastructure funding
Jul 16, 2023
Are rate rises the only way to stop inflation?
Jul 09, 2023
Is it time to ban junk food advertising for children?
Jun 25, 2023
Getting off gas: the case for all-electric homes in Australia
Jun 18, 2023
What's the best policy to cut car emissions?
Jun 04, 2023
How to stop the exploitation of migrant workers in Australia
May 24, 2023
Why housing was the biggest missed opportunity in the federal Budget
May 21, 2023
Back in black? Breaking down Budget 2023
May 12, 2023
How to fix Australia's 'failed' migration system
May 05, 2023
Does the National Electric Vehicle Strategy go the distance?
Apr 23, 2023
How to repair the federal budget
Apr 11, 2023
How to make superannuation fairer
Apr 02, 2023
Australia's productivity predicament: analysing the 5-year Productivity Inquiry report
Mar 26, 2023
What the increased default market offer means for electricity prices
Mar 19, 2023
Why is the government reining in super tax breaks?
Mar 03, 2023
What's causing Australia's nightmare rental market?
Feb 26, 2023
What's wrong with open-plan classrooms?
Feb 19, 2023
How an Australian Centre for Disease Control could prevent chronic disease
Feb 12, 2023
How to fix fuel tax
Feb 05, 2023
How to embed small-group tuition in Australian schools
Jan 29, 2023
Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2022 - Event Recording
Dec 12, 2022
How to strengthen general practice in Australia
Dec 08, 2022
What the new safeguard mechanism should do
Nov 20, 2022
What is the motherhood penalty?
Nov 13, 2022
How the National Housing Accord could ease the housing crisis
Nov 06, 2022
Federal Budget 2022: costs, cuts, and consequences
Oct 27, 2022
What just happened in the Victorian energy market?!
Oct 21, 2022
How to improve curriculum planning in schools
Oct 16, 2022
Spruik no more: depoliticising taxpayer-funded advertising
Oct 09, 2022
Is Australia headed for a recession?
Oct 02, 2022
The Great Australian Nightmare: Henry George Lecture
Sep 19, 2022
Jobs and skills: what now after the summit?
Sep 05, 2022
Clean wheels keep on turning: reducing truck air-pollution in urban areas
Aug 28, 2022
How to prevent pork-barrelling in Australian politics
Aug 21, 2022
Skills to pay the bills: Migration priorities for the government at the Jobs and Skills Summit
Aug 15, 2022
Ooh, shiny! Infrastructure projects and the not-so-shiny cost-benefit analyses
Aug 01, 2022
How to respond to surging COVID hospitalisations
Jul 25, 2022
Putting an end to jobs for mates in Australian politics
Jul 17, 2022
A brief history of superannuation
Jul 10, 2022
How Australia’s industrial sector can flourish in a net-zero world
Jul 03, 2022
Where to for stamp duty reform now?
Jun 26, 2022
Do millennials really have it tougher in the housing market? 🥑
Jun 19, 2022
Why our electricity and gas prices are soaring
Jun 12, 2022
Why Australia needs to pick up the pace on third doses
May 29, 2022
Policy and politics: Breaking down the 2022 Federal Election
May 23, 2022
Why Australia should lock in full employment
May 15, 2022
What the interest rate rise means for homeowners
May 08, 2022
What are the rules for political advertising?
May 01, 2022
Is cutting fuel excise the best way to bring down petrol prices?
Apr 03, 2022
Budget 2022 wrap-up with Danielle Wood and Kate Griffiths
Mar 31, 2022
Steering clear of pork-barrelling in transport projects
Mar 20, 2022
How to fix temporary skilled migration
Mar 15, 2022
How to reduce out-of-pocket healthcare costs
Mar 06, 2022
Orange Book 2022: Policy priorities for the federal government
Feb 27, 2022
Why it’s time for a national shared equity scheme
Feb 20, 2022
Why are the unemployment figures so low?
Feb 14, 2022
Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List 2021
Feb 06, 2022
How to make time for great teaching
Jan 30, 2022
The next steps to improve home care
Dec 12, 2021
John Button Oration: The Next Generation’s Australia
Nov 28, 2021
Should we be worried about inflation?
Nov 22, 2021
COP26: what went down, and what it means for Australia
Nov 19, 2021
Net zero: where to start?
Nov 01, 2021
Why the Federal Government needs to introduce an emissions ceiling on new cars
Oct 24, 2021
Why it's about to get harder to borrow for a mortgage
Oct 18, 2021
How to offset carbon emissions in Australia
Oct 11, 2021
How the agriculture sector can reduce emissions
Sep 27, 2021
Why the Reserve Bank of Australia should be reviewed
Sep 20, 2021
How we can protect children from COVID
Sep 13, 2021
Why the federal government should boost paid parental leave for fathers and partners
Sep 05, 2021
What's going on with Australia's vaccine rollout?
Aug 27, 2021
How to reduce emissions in Australia's industrial sector
Aug 22, 2021
Why vaccinating 80% of the population is our ticket out of lockdowns (and how to get there)
Jul 30, 2021
Gridlock: removing barriers to policy reform
Jul 25, 2021
Towards net zero: how to reduce emissions in the transport sector
Jul 18, 2021
What the new super reforms mean for you
Jul 11, 2021
COVID catch-up: one year later
Jun 21, 2021
How to fix Australia's COVID vaccine rollout
Jun 03, 2021
How to reform permanent skilled migration in Australia
May 31, 2021
Megabang for megabucks: driving a harder bargain on megaprojects
May 16, 2021
Peering into the budget crystal ball with Danielle Wood
May 07, 2021
An Agenda For Australia’s First Minister For Women’s Economic Security
Apr 28, 2021
Why Australia should have a universal aged care system
Apr 19, 2021
How to get to net-zero emissions in the National Electricity Market
Apr 11, 2021
Why house prices are skyrocketing (and what we can do to fix it)
Mar 26, 2021
What now for aged care?
Mar 15, 2021
How the COVID crisis affected Australian women
Mar 07, 2021
Will COVID-19 change the way we travel around cities forever?
Feb 24, 2021
How to fix the hotel quarantine system
Feb 19, 2021
Will the pension still exist when you retire?
Feb 12, 2021
Donations Data Revealed
Feb 05, 2021
What's ahead for climate policy in 2021?
Feb 01, 2021
Summer Reading List for the Prime Minister - Event Recording
Dec 20, 2020
Grattan's 2020 Year in Review with Danielle Wood
Dec 18, 2020
Climate change and health: preparing for the next disaster
Dec 07, 2020
Reforming aged care: a practical plan for a rights-based system
Nov 29, 2020
Why Social Housing Is Good Stimulus
Nov 22, 2020
Flame out: the future of natural gas in Australia
Nov 15, 2020
Counting the mega costs of megaprojects
Nov 08, 2020
Reaching zero: Victoria’s response to COVID-19 on top of the world
Oct 29, 2020
Hard hat or hard-hit? Evaluating the 2020 Federal Budget
Oct 09, 2020
Rethinking aged care: emphasising the rights of older Australians
Oct 04, 2020
Good gas? Reforming the energy system after COVID-19
Sep 28, 2020
How governments should prioritise their agenda
Sep 20, 2020
Is early access to super a bad idea?
Sep 13, 2020
Go for Zero: How Australia can get to zero COVID-19 cases
Sep 07, 2020
Congestion charging: why now?
Aug 30, 2020
How To Boost Female Workforce Participation - Webinar recording
Aug 16, 2020
Cheaper childcare: how to boost female workforce participation
Aug 09, 2020
Fast Train Fever: Should Australia build a bullet train from Brisbane to Melbourne?
Aug 02, 2020
The future of Grattan and policy in Australia: John Daley interviews Danielle Wood
Jul 27, 2020
Grattan's origins and achievements: Danielle Wood interviews John Daley
Jul 20, 2020
Zero-emissions Australia: opportunities and barriers - Webinar recording
Jul 12, 2020
How Australia can recover from the COVID-19 crisis – Webinar recording
Jul 06, 2020
School education in the age of COVID-19 - Webinar recording
Jun 29, 2020
How our health system can be better after the pandemic – Webinar recording
Jun 22, 2020
COVID catch-up: helping disadvantaged students close the equity gap
Jun 14, 2020
Fast train fever: Why renovated rail might work but bullet trains won’t
May 24, 2020
COVID-19: What does the new normal look like?
May 15, 2020
Start with steel: A practical plan to support carbon workers and cut emissions
May 10, 2020
Planning for recovery: Australia after the pandemic - Webinar recording
Apr 30, 2020
Shutdown: estimating the COVID-19 employment shock
Apr 20, 2020
COVID-19: Your Questions Answered - Webinar recording
Apr 09, 2020
COVID-19: the challenges of online schooling
Mar 30, 2020
The economic, budgetary and health impacts of COVID-19 – Webinar recording
Mar 27, 2020
Coronavirus and Australia's healthcare system
Mar 13, 2020
Tackling Melbourne’s Congestion – Event recording
Mar 11, 2020
Balancing Act: managing the trade-offs in retirement incomes policy
Mar 01, 2020
How coronavirus is affecting the Australian economy
Feb 24, 2020
Dark money: How to reform Australia's political donations system
Feb 17, 2020
Top teachers: sharing expertise to improve teaching
Feb 09, 2020
Do increases in superannuation come out of wages?
Feb 02, 2020
Could the bushfire crisis be the turning point for climate policy in Australia?
Jan 24, 2020
Energy Futures: Hydrogen, worth the hype?
Jan 09, 2020
Can private health insurance be saved from the jaws of death? Canberra event recording
Dec 12, 2019
Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2019
Dec 08, 2019
Saving Private Health 2: Making private health insurance viable
Dec 04, 2019
Saving Private Health: reining in hospital costs and specialist bills
Nov 25, 2019
Avoiding another Hazelwood: how to manage coal closures
Nov 18, 2019
Attracting teachers with the school education program
Nov 10, 2019
Right time, right place, right price: a practical plan for congestion charging
Oct 23, 2019
Why it’s time for congestion charging in Australia: better ways to manage busy urban roads
Oct 13, 2019
Power play: how governments can better direct Australia’s electricity market
Oct 07, 2019
Australian Energy Futures - Melbourne event recording
Sep 23, 2019
What does the future of Australian energy look like?
Sep 09, 2019
The choice between vocational and higher education - event recording
Sep 02, 2019
How to attract high achievers to teaching in Australia
Aug 25, 2019
Generation gap: ensuring a fair go for younger Australians
Aug 18, 2019
When is vocational education a good alternative to higher education?
Aug 11, 2019
What would it take to end homelessness in Queensland?
Aug 05, 2019
Hydrogen: coming to a stovetop near you?
Jul 04, 2019
How governments can help struggling Australians with rising housing costs – Melbourne
Jun 04, 2019
What should the next Federal Government do on retirement incomes? — Sydney
May 27, 2019
After the ‘Morrison Miracle’
May 22, 2019
Age war? Talking about the generational bargain - Melbourne
May 22, 2019
Federal Election 2019: Big ideas for Australia’s next government - Melbourne
Apr 24, 2019
Commonwealth Orange Book 2019: Policy priorities for the federal government
Apr 16, 2019
The bottom line: Dissecting the 2019 Federal Budget
Apr 09, 2019
Building teacher expertise in NSW schools – Sydney
Apr 05, 2019
Filling the gap: A universal dental care scheme for Australia
Mar 17, 2019
Who is funding Australian democracy?
Feb 20, 2019
NSW Election 2019: Big ideas for the next government
Feb 19, 2019
Filling the dental gap: meeting unmet oral health needs – Melbourne
Feb 13, 2019
Summer blackouts: the new normal?
Feb 12, 2019
Keep calm and carry on: Managing electricity reliability
Feb 10, 2019
Australia’s prospects for a credible energy and climate change policy? – Canberra
Dec 11, 2018
Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List 2018
Dec 04, 2018
Money in retirement: more than enough
Nov 13, 2018
State Orange Book 2018: Policy priorities for states and territories – Melbourne
Nov 13, 2018
Graduate premium: is it still worth going to university? – Sydney
Nov 08, 2018
South-East Queensland in a time of change – Brisbane
Oct 31, 2018
State Orange Book 2018: Policy priorities for states and territories
Oct 30, 2018
Measuring student progress: A state-by-state report card
Oct 22, 2018
Melbourne in a time of change
Oct 09, 2018
South Australia’s power system: Are we ready for summer? - Adelaide
Oct 02, 2018
Remarkably adaptive: Australian cities in a time of growth
Oct 01, 2018
Who's in the room? Access and influence in Australian politics
Sep 23, 2018
Mapping Australian higher education 2018
Sep 14, 2018
Energy Futures Seminar: Energy policy. Where to from here? – Melbourne
Sep 13, 2018
Who’s in the room? Special interest influence on policy – Melbourne
Sep 12, 2018
Who’s in the room? Special interest influence on policy – Sydney
Sep 11, 2018
Making sense of the school funding wars
Sep 04, 2018
Understanding the new Code of Conduct for doctors
Aug 29, 2018
Safer care saves money: How to improve patient care and save public money at the same time
Aug 19, 2018
Deconstructing the data on hospital safety
Aug 07, 2018
Primary Care in Australia: the state of play – Melbourne
Aug 07, 2018
Mapping primary care in Australia
Jul 29, 2018
Energy Futures Seminar: The way back to affordable electricity - Melbourne
Jul 24, 2018
Getting transport infrastructure projects right
Jul 12, 2018
Safer care saves money – Brisbane
Jul 04, 2018
Post-Gonski 2.0: Supporting evidence-based teaching practice in the classroom – Melbourne
Jul 03, 2018
Mostly working: Australia’s wholesale electricity market
Jul 01, 2018
The future of Australia’s super system – Canberra
Jun 26, 2018
University attrition: what helps and what hinders university completion
Jun 13, 2018
Dropping out of university: when does it matter, how can it be reduced? - Melbourne
Jun 12, 2018
Energy and climate-change policy in Australia
May 28, 2018
Budget 2018 - the verdict
May 17, 2018
Energy Futures Seminar: National Energy Guarantee –What happens next? – Sydney
May 16, 2018
Australian retirement incomes: do we have a problem? – Melbourne
May 15, 2018
Gonski 2.0 - next steps to success
May 09, 2018
Gonski 2.0: What Commonwealth should do (and not do) to drive improvement in school ed – Brisbane
May 02, 2018
Dropping out: the benefits and costs of trying university
Apr 29, 2018
Understanding Labor’s dividend imputation reforms
Apr 24, 2018
Safer care saves money - Melbourne
Apr 17, 2018
Energy Futures Seminar: What does a truly sustainable electricity network look like? – Melbourne
Apr 11, 2018
A deep dive on the RBA's latest research on housing
Apr 03, 2018
Down to the wire: A sustainable electricity network for Australia
Mar 26, 2018
A crisis of trust: The rise of protest politics in Australia
Mar 15, 2018
Innovation policy in Australia: never a better time? – Melbourne
Mar 13, 2018
What’s the best way to close the gender gap in retirement incomes?
Mar 07, 2018
Innovation policy in Australia: never a better time? – Sydney
Mar 06, 2018
Housing affordability: re-imagining the Australian dream
Mar 04, 2018
Congestion in Melbourne: is it time to consider congestion charging?
Feb 27, 2018
Gonski 2.0: What Commonwealth should do (and not do) to drive improvement in school ed – Canberra
Feb 20, 2018
The demand driven higher education funding system: frozen or finished? – Sydney
Feb 13, 2018
The Commonwealth's role in improving schools
Feb 11, 2018
The shocking truth about Australia's efforts to 'close the gap'
Feb 08, 2018
All complications should count: Using our data to make hospitals safer
Feb 05, 2018
The history and future of Medicare
Jan 31, 2018
The ten-year story of Australia's Electricity price rise crisis
Jan 23, 2018
What's the latest research on housing affordability?
Dec 18, 2017
Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List 2017
Dec 05, 2017
Competition in Australia: Too little of a good thing?
Dec 03, 2017
Cities and the regions: a growing divide? - Sydney
Nov 28, 2017
Towards an adaptive education system in Australia
Nov 26, 2017
Can Australia fix its energy mess? - Melbourne
Nov 22, 2017
Disentangling the political implications of the same-sex marriage "yes" vote
Nov 21, 2017
Post Trump, Post Brexit, Post Policy: the Rise of Populism – Melbourne
Nov 21, 2017
Strengthening safety statistics
Nov 07, 2017
Stuck in traffic? Road congestion in Sydney
Oct 17, 2017
Are we facing a low growth future? - Part 2
Oct 10, 2017
Competition in the Australian economy: too little of a good thing? – Melbourne
Oct 03, 2017
Stuck in traffic? Road congestion in Sydney and Melbourne
Oct 02, 2017
Are we facing a low growth future? - Part 1
Sep 26, 2017
Retail Competition in the electricity sector and energy price
Sep 13, 2017
Next Generation: the long-term future of the National Electricity Market
Sep 11, 2017
Post Trump, Post Brexit, Post Policy: the Rise of Populism – Brisbane
Aug 17, 2017
Rising inequality in Australia?
Aug 15, 2017
Safety and Quality – time to stop just goggling at the problems our data reveals – Melbourne
Aug 15, 2017
Regional patterns of Australia’s economy and population
Aug 02, 2017
Australia's Post-Finkel Energy Future
Jul 31, 2017
Higher education funding – the pressures, the changes and possible solutions
Jul 17, 2017
What are we listening to?
Jul 12, 2017
Housing affordability: Resurrecting the Australian dream – Melbourne
Jul 11, 2017
Gonski 2.0 - Where to from here
Jul 04, 2017
Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s Review of the Security of the NEM – Sydney
Jun 28, 2017
Australia’s budget woes – Canberra
Jun 27, 2017
Energy Futures Seminar: Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s Review of the Security of the NEM
Jun 22, 2017