Fast train fever: Why renovated rail might work but bullet trains won’t
reportAustralia should dump the decades-old dream of building an east-coast bullet train, and we should be wary of expensive promises to upgrade regional rail lines.
NEWS
01 June 2020
Donate to Grattan's 2020 fundraising appealGrattan Institute relies on donations to keep going. If you can, please donate before 30 June to support Grattan’s work, and help us help Australia.
NEWS
04 June 2020
The dos and don’ts of post-pandemic stimulusIf governments are going to add to the growing debt mountain, they should do so in a way that sets us up for the future we’ll actually have, not the one we imagined before COVID-19.
NEWS
01 June 2020
Money for social housing, not home buyers grants, is the key to construction stimulusFunding social housing won’t provide windfalls for developers. But it will keep construction workers on the job and help some of Australia’s most vulnerable.
Reports
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24 May 2020
Fast train fever: Why renovated rail might work but bullet trains won’t -
10 May 2020
Start with steel: A practical plan to support carbon workers and cut emissions -
19 April 2020
Shutdown: estimating the COVID-19 employment shock -
21 March 2020
COVID-19: The endgame, and how to get there
News & Opinion
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4 June 2020
Governance lessons for Australia from COVID-19 -
4 June 2020
A success story: Australia’s COVID-19 response -
4 June 2020
The dos and don’ts of post-pandemic stimulus -
1 June 2020
Money for social housing, not home buyers grants, is the key to construction stimulus
Podcasts
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25 May 2020
Fast train fever: Why renovated rail might work but bullet trains won’t – Podcast -
15 May 2020
COVID-19: What does the new normal look like? -
11 May 2020
Start with steel: A practical plan to support carbon workers and cut emissions -
30 April 2020
Planning for recovery: Australia after the pandemic – Podcast
Submissions
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1 May 2020
Learning the lessons from the 2019-20 bushfires -
29 April 2020
Preparing for a hotter Australia -
16 March 2020
Tackling homelessness in Victoria -
1 March 2020
Balancing Act: managing the trade-offs in retirement incomes policy
Presentations
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28 April 2020
The role of boards during the pandemic -
4 December 2019
Saving private health -
2 December 2019
Housing in retirement: the emerging challenge to Australians’ retirement incomes -
1 November 2019
Remembering George Palmer, academic health policy advocate
Events
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30 April 2020
Webinar Event – Planning for recovery: Australia after the pandemic -
09 April 2020
Webinar Event- COVID-19: Your questions answered -
27 March 2020
The economic, budgetary and health impacts of COVID-19: webinar -
24 March 2020
CANCELLED: What women want? Lowering the barriers to female workforce participation – Melbourne
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