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Grattan Institute — 318 episodes
Budget 2026: Why this one matters
Democracy: How to strengthen Australia’s democracy in turbulent times
The Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2025 - Event Recording
How to improve school attendance in Australia
How to make psychosocial disability support fairer in Australia
How to fix hospital funding
Want to fix the housing crisis? Build up
How Australia can expand carbon pricing
Why fixing the workforce gender balance matters
How to build a better tax system: Economic Reform Roundtable recap
Grading the 2025 NAPLAN results
Gas: Love it or hate it? It's complicated...
How to save the NDIS
Why superannuation tax breaks need to be cut
How to improve Australians' access to specialist care
The Maths Guarantee: How to Boost Students' Learning in Primary Schools
Election 2025: Evaluating the housing policies
Analysing the 2025 federal Budget
Orange Book 2025: Policy priorities for the federal government
How to boost child vaccination rates
The RBA has cut rates. Now what?
Why Rent Assistance needs to rise
What are 'GP deserts' (and how to fix them)?
The Wonks' List: The Best Technical Policy Reads of 2024
Super stressful: how Australia can simplify retirement incomes
Crunching the numbers on the Coalition's nuclear plan
Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2024
What the Annual Climate Change Statement means for Australia
Housing policy heats up
Should Australia curb negative gearing?
Should Australia invest in nuclear power?
How to prevent gambling harm in Australia
How to reform NDIS housing and support
Unpacking the 2024 NAPLAN results
Will interest rates ever stop going up?
How to boost GPs' patient vaccination rates
Analysing the 2024 NSW Budget
Should Australia abandon the Paris Agreement?
How to reform points-tested visas
Budget 2024: The Grattan verdict
Why Australia needs a sugary drinks tax
How Australia can navigate to a post-coal future
Will this bill get the NDIS back on track?
Is Australia running out of gas?
Why Australia should trial multi-school organisations
Australia's gender pay gap revealed
Is 2024 the year of the renter?
Why Australia needs a 'Reading Guarantee'
Grattan's Summer Series: Micheline Lee on Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity, and the NDIS
The Wonks' List: the best technical policy reads of 2023
Grattan's Summer Series: Ellen van Neerven on Personal Score
Grattan's Summer Series: Anna Funder On Wifedom
Unpacking the NDIS Review
What these test results reveal about Australia's education system
Hydrogen: a golden ticket to net zero?
How to close the vaccination gap
How to fix local roads
Tax Reform In Australia: An Impossible Dream? Danielle Wood's Freebairn Lecture
How reducing Australia’s salt intake could save lives - and money
Why Claudia Goldin’s Nobel win isn’t just about women in economics
Reforming international student visa pathways after graduation
Assessing the Disability Royal Commission report
Using government data to improve people’s lives
Has National Cabinet just solved the housing crisis?
How to create a better Australia for Generation Next
Decoding the 2023 NAPLAN results
Is the “world’s worst electric vehicle policy” really so bad?
What's the YIMBY movement and how can it help housing policy?
Why is childcare so expensive?
What the NAPLAN changes mean for parents and teachers
Why the federal government should stay in its lane on infrastructure funding
Are rate rises the only way to stop inflation?
Is it time to ban junk food advertising for children?
Getting off gas: the case for all-electric homes in Australia
What's the best policy to cut car emissions?
How to stop the exploitation of migrant workers in Australia
Why housing was the biggest missed opportunity in the federal Budget
Back in black? Breaking down Budget 2023
How to fix Australia's 'failed' migration system
Does the National Electric Vehicle Strategy go the distance?
How to repair the federal budget
How to make superannuation fairer
Australia's productivity predicament: analysing the 5-year Productivity Inquiry report
What the increased default market offer means for electricity prices
Why is the government reining in super tax breaks?
What's causing Australia's nightmare rental market?
What's wrong with open-plan classrooms?
How an Australian Centre for Disease Control could prevent chronic disease
How to fix fuel tax
How to embed small-group tuition in Australian schools
Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2022 - Event Recording
How to strengthen general practice in Australia
What the new safeguard mechanism should do
What is the motherhood penalty?
How the National Housing Accord could ease the housing crisis
Federal Budget 2022: costs, cuts, and consequences
What just happened in the Victorian energy market?!
How to improve curriculum planning in schools
Spruik no more: depoliticising taxpayer-funded advertising
Is Australia headed for a recession?
The Great Australian Nightmare: Henry George Lecture
Jobs and skills: what now after the summit?
Clean wheels keep on turning: reducing truck air-pollution in urban areas
How to prevent pork-barrelling in Australian politics
Skills to pay the bills: Migration priorities for the government at the Jobs and Skills Summit
Ooh, shiny! Infrastructure projects and the not-so-shiny cost-benefit analyses
How to respond to surging COVID hospitalisations
Putting an end to jobs for mates in Australian politics
A brief history of superannuation
How Australia’s industrial sector can flourish in a net-zero world
Where to for stamp duty reform now?
Do millennials really have it tougher in the housing market? 🥑
Why our electricity and gas prices are soaring
Why Australia needs to pick up the pace on third doses
Policy and politics: Breaking down the 2022 Federal Election
Why Australia should lock in full employment
What the interest rate rise means for homeowners
What are the rules for political advertising?
Is cutting fuel excise the best way to bring down petrol prices?
Budget 2022 wrap-up with Danielle Wood and Kate Griffiths
Steering clear of pork-barrelling in transport projects
How to fix temporary skilled migration
How to reduce out-of-pocket healthcare costs
Orange Book 2022: Policy priorities for the federal government
Why it’s time for a national shared equity scheme
Why are the unemployment figures so low?
Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List 2021
How to make time for great teaching
The next steps to improve home care
John Button Oration: The Next Generation’s Australia
Should we be worried about inflation?
COP26: what went down, and what it means for Australia
Net zero: where to start?
Why the Federal Government needs to introduce an emissions ceiling on new cars
Why it's about to get harder to borrow for a mortgage
How to offset carbon emissions in Australia
How the agriculture sector can reduce emissions
Why the Reserve Bank of Australia should be reviewed
How we can protect children from COVID
Why the federal government should boost paid parental leave for fathers and partners
What's going on with Australia's vaccine rollout?
How to reduce emissions in Australia's industrial sector
Why vaccinating 80% of the population is our ticket out of lockdowns (and how to get there)
Gridlock: removing barriers to policy reform
Towards net zero: how to reduce emissions in the transport sector
What the new super reforms mean for you
COVID catch-up: one year later
How to fix Australia's COVID vaccine rollout
How to reform permanent skilled migration in Australia
Megabang for megabucks: driving a harder bargain on megaprojects
Peering into the budget crystal ball with Danielle Wood
An Agenda For Australia’s First Minister For Women’s Economic Security
Why Australia should have a universal aged care system
How to get to net-zero emissions in the National Electricity Market
Why house prices are skyrocketing (and what we can do to fix it)
What now for aged care?
How the COVID crisis affected Australian women
Will COVID-19 change the way we travel around cities forever?
How to fix the hotel quarantine system
Will the pension still exist when you retire?
Donations Data Revealed
What's ahead for climate policy in 2021?
Summer Reading List for the Prime Minister - Event Recording
Grattan's 2020 Year in Review with Danielle Wood
Climate change and health: preparing for the next disaster
Reforming aged care: a practical plan for a rights-based system
Why Social Housing Is Good Stimulus
Flame out: the future of natural gas in Australia
Counting the mega costs of megaprojects
Reaching zero: Victoria’s response to COVID-19 on top of the world
Hard hat or hard-hit? Evaluating the 2020 Federal Budget
Rethinking aged care: emphasising the rights of older Australians
Good gas? Reforming the energy system after COVID-19
How governments should prioritise their agenda
Is early access to super a bad idea?
Go for Zero: How Australia can get to zero COVID-19 cases
Congestion charging: why now?
How To Boost Female Workforce Participation - Webinar recording
Cheaper childcare: how to boost female workforce participation
Fast Train Fever: Should Australia build a bullet train from Brisbane to Melbourne?
The future of Grattan and policy in Australia: John Daley interviews Danielle Wood
Grattan's origins and achievements: Danielle Wood interviews John Daley
Zero-emissions Australia: opportunities and barriers - Webinar recording
How Australia can recover from the COVID-19 crisis – Webinar recording
School education in the age of COVID-19 - Webinar recording
How our health system can be better after the pandemic – Webinar recording
COVID catch-up: helping disadvantaged students close the equity gap
Fast train fever: Why renovated rail might work but bullet trains won’t
COVID-19: What does the new normal look like?
Start with steel: A practical plan to support carbon workers and cut emissions
Planning for recovery: Australia after the pandemic - Webinar recording
Shutdown: estimating the COVID-19 employment shock
COVID-19: Your Questions Answered - Webinar recording
COVID-19: the challenges of online schooling
The economic, budgetary and health impacts of COVID-19 – Webinar recording
Coronavirus and Australia's healthcare system
Tackling Melbourne’s Congestion – Event recording
Balancing Act: managing the trade-offs in retirement incomes policy
How coronavirus is affecting the Australian economy
Dark money: How to reform Australia's political donations system
Top teachers: sharing expertise to improve teaching
Do increases in superannuation come out of wages?
Could the bushfire crisis be the turning point for climate policy in Australia?
Energy Futures: Hydrogen, worth the hype?
Can private health insurance be saved from the jaws of death? Canberra event recording
Prime Minister's Summer Reading List 2019
Saving Private Health 2: Making private health insurance viable
Saving Private Health: reining in hospital costs and specialist bills
Avoiding another Hazelwood: how to manage coal closures
Attracting teachers with the school education program
Right time, right place, right price: a practical plan for congestion charging
Why it’s time for congestion charging in Australia: better ways to manage busy urban roads
Power play: how governments can better direct Australia’s electricity market
Australian Energy Futures - Melbourne event recording
What does the future of Australian energy look like?
The choice between vocational and higher education - event recording
How to attract high achievers to teaching in Australia
Generation gap: ensuring a fair go for younger Australians
When is vocational education a good alternative to higher education?
What would it take to end homelessness in Queensland?
Hydrogen: coming to a stovetop near you?
How governments can help struggling Australians with rising housing costs – Melbourne
What should the next Federal Government do on retirement incomes? — Sydney
After the ‘Morrison Miracle’
Age war? Talking about the generational bargain - Melbourne
Federal Election 2019: Big ideas for Australia’s next government - Melbourne
Commonwealth Orange Book 2019: Policy priorities for the federal government
The bottom line: Dissecting the 2019 Federal Budget
Building teacher expertise in NSW schools – Sydney
Filling the gap: A universal dental care scheme for Australia
Who is funding Australian democracy?
NSW Election 2019: Big ideas for the next government
Filling the dental gap: meeting unmet oral health needs – Melbourne
Summer blackouts: the new normal?
Keep calm and carry on: Managing electricity reliability
Australia’s prospects for a credible energy and climate change policy? – Canberra
Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List 2018
Money in retirement: more than enough
State Orange Book 2018: Policy priorities for states and territories – Melbourne
Graduate premium: is it still worth going to university? – Sydney
South-East Queensland in a time of change – Brisbane
State Orange Book 2018: Policy priorities for states and territories
Measuring student progress: A state-by-state report card
Melbourne in a time of change
South Australia’s power system: Are we ready for summer? - Adelaide
Remarkably adaptive: Australian cities in a time of growth
Who's in the room? Access and influence in Australian politics
Mapping Australian higher education 2018
Energy Futures Seminar: Energy policy. Where to from here? – Melbourne
Who’s in the room? Special interest influence on policy – Melbourne
Who’s in the room? Special interest influence on policy – Sydney
Making sense of the school funding wars
Understanding the new Code of Conduct for doctors
Safer care saves money: How to improve patient care and save public money at the same time
Deconstructing the data on hospital safety
Primary Care in Australia: the state of play – Melbourne
Mapping primary care in Australia
Energy Futures Seminar: The way back to affordable electricity - Melbourne
Getting transport infrastructure projects right
Safer care saves money – Brisbane
Post-Gonski 2.0: Supporting evidence-based teaching practice in the classroom – Melbourne
Mostly working: Australia’s wholesale electricity market
The future of Australia’s super system – Canberra
University attrition: what helps and what hinders university completion
Dropping out of university: when does it matter, how can it be reduced? - Melbourne
Energy and climate-change policy in Australia
Budget 2018 - the verdict
Energy Futures Seminar: National Energy Guarantee –What happens next? – Sydney
Australian retirement incomes: do we have a problem? – Melbourne
Gonski 2.0 - next steps to success
Gonski 2.0: What Commonwealth should do (and not do) to drive improvement in school ed – Brisbane
Dropping out: the benefits and costs of trying university
Understanding Labor’s dividend imputation reforms
Safer care saves money - Melbourne
Energy Futures Seminar: What does a truly sustainable electricity network look like? – Melbourne
A deep dive on the RBA's latest research on housing
Down to the wire: A sustainable electricity network for Australia
A crisis of trust: The rise of protest politics in Australia
Innovation policy in Australia: never a better time? – Melbourne
What’s the best way to close the gender gap in retirement incomes?
Innovation policy in Australia: never a better time? – Sydney
Housing affordability: re-imagining the Australian dream
Congestion in Melbourne: is it time to consider congestion charging?
Gonski 2.0: What Commonwealth should do (and not do) to drive improvement in school ed – Canberra
The demand driven higher education funding system: frozen or finished? – Sydney
The Commonwealth's role in improving schools
The shocking truth about Australia's efforts to 'close the gap'
All complications should count: Using our data to make hospitals safer
The history and future of Medicare
The ten-year story of Australia's Electricity price rise crisis
What's the latest research on housing affordability?
Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List 2017
Competition in Australia: Too little of a good thing?
Cities and the regions: a growing divide? - Sydney
Towards an adaptive education system in Australia
Can Australia fix its energy mess? - Melbourne
Disentangling the political implications of the same-sex marriage "yes" vote
Post Trump, Post Brexit, Post Policy: the Rise of Populism – Melbourne
Strengthening safety statistics
Stuck in traffic? Road congestion in Sydney
Are we facing a low growth future? - Part 2
Competition in the Australian economy: too little of a good thing? – Melbourne
Stuck in traffic? Road congestion in Sydney and Melbourne
Are we facing a low growth future? - Part 1
Retail Competition in the electricity sector and energy price
Next Generation: the long-term future of the National Electricity Market
Post Trump, Post Brexit, Post Policy: the Rise of Populism – Brisbane
Rising inequality in Australia?
Safety and Quality – time to stop just goggling at the problems our data reveals – Melbourne
Regional patterns of Australia’s economy and population
Australia's Post-Finkel Energy Future
Higher education funding – the pressures, the changes and possible solutions
What are we listening to?
Housing affordability: Resurrecting the Australian dream – Melbourne
Gonski 2.0 - Where to from here
Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s Review of the Security of the NEM – Sydney
Australia’s budget woes – Canberra
Energy Futures Seminar: Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s Review of the Security of the NEM