Report index
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2010
Measuring What Matters: Student Progress
Restructuring the Australian economy to emit less carbon
What Teachers Want: Better Teacher Management
Investing in Our Teachers, Investing in Our Economy
Markets to Reduce Pollution: Cheaper than Expected
2011
Australia’s Productivity Challenge
Learning the hard way: Australian policies to reduce carbon emissions
Better Teacher Appraisal and Feedback: Improving Performance
Investing in regions: Making a difference
New Protectionism Under Carbon Pricing
What Matters Most? – A Grattan Working Paper
2012
Mapping Australian higher education 2012
No easy choices: Which way to Australia’s energy future?
Catching up: learning from the best school systems in East Asia
Game-changers: Economic reform priorities for Australia
Building the bridge: a practical plan for a low-cost, low-emissions energy future
Graduate winners: assessing the public and private benefits of higher education
Tomorrow’s suburbs: building flexible neighbourhoods
Putting the customer back in front: How to make electricity prices cheaper
2013
Mapping Australian higher education 2013
Australia’s bad drug deal: high pharmaceutical prices
The online evolution: when technology meets tradition in higher education
Budget pressures on Australian governments
Productive cities: opportunity in a changing economy
Getting gas right: Australia’s energy challenge
The myth of markets in school education
Taking university teaching seriously
The mining boom: impacts and prospects
Keep the caps off: Student access and choice in higher education
Access all areas: new solutions for GP shortages in rural Australia
Balancing budgets: tough choices we need
Poor Pricing Progress: Price disclosure isn’t the answer to high drug prices
Shock to the system: dealing with falling electricity demand
2014
Turning around schools: it can be done
Controlling costly care: a billion-dollar hospital opportunity
Making time for great teaching
Doubtful debt: the rising cost of student loans
Unlocking skills in hospitals: better jobs, more care
Super sting: how to stop Australians paying too much for superannuation
Budget pressures on Australian governments 2014
The silver lining: cloud computing and small and medium enterprises
Mapping Australia’s economy: cities as engines of prosperity
Mapping Australian Higher Education 2014-15
Gas at the crossroads: Australia’s hard choice
2015
City Limits: Why Australia’s cities are broken and how we can fix them
Sundown, sunrise: how Australia can finally get solar power right
Premium policy? Getting better value from the PBS
Fiscal challenges for Australia
Targeted teaching: how better use of data can improve student learning
Questionable care: avoiding ineffective treatment
University fees: what students pay in deregulated markets
The cash nexus: how teaching funds research in Australian universities
Fair pricing for Western Australia’s electricity
Post Paris: Australia’s climate policy options
2016
Blood Money: paying for pathology services
Chronic failure in primary care
Widening gaps: what NAPLAN tells us about student progress
HELP for the future: fairer repayment of student debt
Roads to riches: better transport spending
Climate phoenix: a sustainable Australian climate policy
Peer-to-peer pressure: policy for the sharing economy
Hot property: negative gearing and capital gains tax
Orange Book 2016: priorities for the next Commonwealth Government
Perils of place: identifying hotspots of health inequality
Mapping Australian higher education 2016
A better super system: assessing the 2016 tax reforms
Keeping the lights on: lessons from South Australia’s power shock
Cost overruns in transport infrastructure
Age of entitlement: age-based tax breaks
A sugary drinks tax: recovering the community costs of obesity
Circuit breaker: a new compact on school funding
Shared interest: a universal loan fee for HELP
2017
Engaging students: creating classrooms that improve learning
Stagnation nation? Australian investment in a low-growth world
Price shock: Is the retail electricity market failing consumers?
Building better foundations for primary care
Powering through: how to restore confidence in the National Electricity Market
Regional patterns of Australia’s economy and population
Next Generation: the long-term future of the National Electricity Market
Stuck in traffic? Road congestion in Sydney and Melbourne
Strengthening safety statistics: How to make hosptial safety data more useful
Towards an adaptive education system in Australia
Competition in Australia: Too little of a good thing?
2018
Designing a more reliable National Electricity Market
All complications should count: Using our data to make hospitals safer
What’s the best way to close the gender gap in retirement incomes?
The Commonwealth’s role in improving schools
Unfreezing discount rates: transport infrastructure for tomorrow
Housing affordability: re-imagining the Australian dream
A crisis of trust: The rise of protest politics in Australia
Down to the wire: A sustainable electricity network for Australia
Dropping out: the benefts and costs of trying university
Mostly working: Australia’s wholesale electricity market
Mapping primary care in Australia
Safer care saves money: How to improve patient care and save public money at the same time
Mapping Australian higher education 2018
Who’s in the room? Access and influence in Australian politics
Remarkably adaptive: Australian cities in a time of growth
Measuring student progress: A state-by-state report card
State Orange Book 2018: Policy priorities for states and territories
Money in retirement: more than enough
2019
Keep calm and carry on: Managing electricity reliability
Filling the gap: A universal dental care scheme for Australia
Commonwealth Orange Book 2019: Policy priorities for the federal government
Budget blues: why the Stage 3 income tax cuts should wait
The history and purposes of private health insurance
Risks and rewards: when is vocational education a good alternative to higher education?
Generation gap: ensuring a fair go for younger Australians
Attracting high achievers to teaching
Australia’s energy transition: a blueprint for success
Power play: how government can better direct Australia’s electricity market
Why it’s time for congestion charging: better ways to manage busy urban roads
Saving private health 1: reining in hospital costs and specialist bills
Saving private health 2: Making private health insurance viable
2020
No free lunch: higher super means lower wages
Top teachers: sharing expertise to improve teaching
Balancing Act: managing the trade-offs in retirement incomes policy
Shutdown: estimating the COVID-19 employment shock
Start with steel: A practical plan to support carbon workers and cut emissions
Fast train fever: Why renovated rail might work but bullet trains won’t
COVID catch-up: helping disadvantaged students close the equity gap
Coming out of COVID-19 lockdown: the next steps for Australian health care
The Recovery Book: what Australian governments should do now
Cheaper childcare: A practical plan to boost female workforce participation
Go for zero: How Australia can get to zero COVID-19 cases
Prioritising a government’s agenda
Rethinking aged care: emphasising the rights of older Australians
The rise of megaprojects: counting the costs
Flame out: the future of natural gas
Reforming aged care: a practical plan for a rights-based system
Climate change and health: preparing for the next disaster
2021
Women’s work: The impact of the COVID crisis on Australian women
Go for net zero: A practical plan for reliable, affordable, low-emissions electricity
The next steps for aged care: Forging a clear path after the Royal Commission
Megabang for megabucks: driving a harder bargain on megaprojects
Stopping the death spiral: creating a future for private health
Rethinking permanent skilled migration after the pandemic
Towards net zero emissions: practical policies to reduce transport emissions
Gridlock: removing barriers to policy reform
Race to 80: our best shot at living with COVID
Towards net zero: Practical policies to reduce industrial emissions
Dad days: how more gender-equal parental leave would improve the lives of Australian families
Towards net zero: Practical policies to reduce agricultural emissions
Towards net zero: Practical policies to offset carbon emissions
The Grattan car plan: practical policies for cleaner transport and better cities
Towards net zero: A practical plan for Australia’s governments
Unfinished business: practical policies for better care at home
2022
Making time for great teaching: How better government policy can help
Orange Book 2022: Policy priorities for the federal government
How to reduce patients’ out-of-pocket healthcare costs
Fixing Temporary Skilled Migration
Migrants in the Australian workforce: A guidebook for policy makers
No one left behind: Why Australia should lock in full employment
The next industrial revolution: Transforming Australia to flourish in a net-zero world
New Politics: A better process for public appointments
New Politics: Preventing pork barrelling
The Grattan truck plan: practical policies for cleaner freight
New Politics: Depoliticising taxpayer-funded advertising
Ending the lesson lottery: How to improve curriculum planning in schools
A new Medicare: strengthening general practice
2023
Tackling under-achievement: Why Australia should embed high-quality small-group tuition in schools
How to embed small-group tuition in schools: A guide for school leaders
Fuelling budget repair: how to reform fuel taxes for businesses
The Australian Centre for Disease Control (ACDC): Highway to health
How to implement a whole-school curriculum approach: A guide for principals
Super savings: Practical policies for fairer superannuation and a stronger budget
Back in black? A menu of measures to repair the budget
Short-changed: How to stop the exploitation of migrant workers in Australia.
Getting off gas: why, how, and who should pay?
Inflation and inequality: How high inflation is affecting different Australian households
Graduates in limbo: International student visa pathways after graduation
Sneaky salt: how Australia can shake its salt habit
Potholes and pitfalls: how to fix local roads
A fair shot: How to close the vaccination gap
Hydrogen: Hype, hope, or hard work?
2024
The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance of success
Spreading success: Why Australia needs multi-school organisations
Sickly sweet: It’s time for a sugary drinks tax
It all adds up: reforming points-tested visas
Patchy protection: How to boost GPs’ patient vaccination rates
Better, safer, more sustainable: A practical plan for disability housing and support