Productivity growth is the key to raising our living standards in the long term.
The federal government doesn’t hold all the levers, but it can strengthen the foundations: a competitive economy, a well-functioning labour market, the conditions for people to flourish (housing, health, education, and belonging), and the right infrastructure, tax, and regulatory settings.
In this submission we focus on four major economic reform opportunities:
- Supporting the economic transition to net zero.
- Tax reform, to make the tax system more efficient and the budget more sustainable.
- Maximising our talent, including by reducing barriers to work and improving Australia’s skilled migration program.
- Creating more homes and better cities, especially by encouraging state governments to reform land-use planning rules.
Aruna Sathanapally
CEO and Economic Prosperity and Democracy Program Director
Dr Aruna Sathanapally joined the Grattan Institute as CEO in February 2024. She heads a team of leading policy thinkers, researching and advocating policy to improve the lives of Australians. A former NSW barrister and senior public servant, Aruna has worked on the design of public institutions, economic policy, and evidence-based public policy and regulation for close to twenty years.
Brendan Coates
Housing and Economic Security Program Director
Brendan Coates is the Housing and Economic Security Program Director at Grattan Institute, where he leads Grattan’s work on housing, retirement incomes and superannuation.
Alison Reeve
Energy and Climate Change Program Director
Alison Reeve is the Energy and Climate Change Program Director at Grattan Institute. She has two decades of experience in climate change, clean energy policy, and technology, in theprivate, public, academic, and not-for-profit sectors.