The quiet – and concerning – slide in school attendance   By The Educator, with a little bit of help from my colleagues at Grattan Institute   #auspol #education www.theeducatoronline.com/k12/news/the...

“I'm old enough to remember when people said the grid will never hold up with 20% renewables in it – and the grid is still holding up now.”   Grattan Institute energy expert Alison Reeve on a watershed week on Australia’s long road to net zero.   #auspol www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

How to save the NDIS By former Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry, with a little help from my colleagues at the Grattan Institute www.theaustralian.com.au/health/carin...

Melbourne is better than Sydney. Exhibit 214: www.theage.com.au/business/com...

Get off X. It’s a cesspit. #auspol #Musk #ChildAbuse #porn www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

There once was a Pommy cricketer called Duckett…

Tackling the school attendance crisis is a moral imperative for Australia’s political class. An end-of-school-year call to arms by Grattan Institute education policy experts Amy Haywood and Jordana Hunter. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

The Grattan Institute 2025 Summer Reading List for the Prime Minister (our Top Six books of the year) is out – the honeymoon edition! Read all about it here: #auspol #books #writing grattan.edu.au/news/prime-m...

The Saturday Paper: “Linda Reynolds looks forever like someone about to send her main back to the kitchen. She has been victimised by life. Everything is an injustice and all of it done to her. According to court documents, her middle name is Karen.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/11/22/l...

How to fix public hospital funding An important new Grattan Institute report that should be compulsory reading for the Prime Minister and the Premiers #auspol #nswpol #springst #health grattan.edu.au/report/smart...

Memo to the Libs and Nats: net zero is not a political plaything or a virtue-signalling culture war trope. Grattan Institute expert Alison Reeve injects some facts and evidence into Australia’s energy and climate-change debate. #auspol #coal Via The Age www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

It’s a mirage of an energy and climate change policy The Liberals’ plan won’t reduce power prices and it won’t reduce emissions substantially, writes Grattan Institute policy guru Tony Wood in the Financial Review #auspol #coal #renewables #NetZero grattan.edu.au/news/a-mirag...

Melbourne is a great city, but… Grattan Institute housing policy expert Joey Moloney puts the case for higher density across the suburbs, including Ivanhoe, Fairfield, and Newport #auspol #springst #planning grattan.edu.au/news/melbour...

The longest city is short on homes Why Perth needs planning reforms, by Grattan Institute housing policy experts Joey Moloney and Ashleigh Chang in today’s West Australian grattan.edu.au/news/the-lon... #auspol

To fix the economy, fix housing. Brendan Coates, Joey Moloney, and Matthew Bowes summarise their blockbuster new Grattan Institute report on Australia’s housing crisis. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11... #auspol #nswpol #springst #Insiders Via Pearls and Irritations

Why Australia needs a housing policy revolution – and what it will mean for your suburb. Major new Grattan Institute report by Brendan Coates, Joey Moloney, and Matthew Bowes. #auspol #nswpol #springst #Planning #Heritage grattan.edu.au/report/more-...

Tony Abbott and the Ladybird view of history Jane Lydon runs the rule over Abbott’s Australia theconversation.com/tony-abbotts... #auspol

Treaty yeah www.theage.com.au/politics/vic... #auspol #springst #Australia

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one of the ironclad rules of Australian journalism is that any story about voting must be accompanied by a picture of people voting in swimwear

“Less about saving swimmers and more about serving cocktails” How $14m of public money to convert an ageing bayside pool to a heated indoor learn-to-swim centre is being misused to build a glitzy private social club on Williamstown’s heritage beach www.theage.com.au/national/vic... #springst

Here’s some good news: Play your cards right, and your household energy bills could halve by 2050 New Grattan Institute report by Alison Reeve and Tony Wood grattan.edu.au/report/bills... #auspol #ClimateEmergency #NetZero #coal #renewables

Australia’s workforce challenge Thoughtful new Grattan Institute series on building our workforce of the future #auspol #ausecon #jobs #migration #AI grattan.edu.au/australias-w...

Three more reasons to object to the proposed over-development of Williamstown’s historic life-saving club: 1. Taxpayers’ money being used for private facilities 2. The ‘Members Only’ fence 3. A footprint that extends well beyond the club’s current fence line thewestsider.com.au/is-the-willy...

Sydney remains ground zero for Australia’s housing crisis. Our housing policy expert Brendan Coates gives the NSW government credit for acting to get more housing built – and identifies what should happen now. #auspol #nswpol grattan.edu.au/news/sydney-...

Gradually , then suddenly. Jacqueline Maley charts America’s descent into authoritarianism. #Trump #freedom #democracy www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Comedy, power, and democracy. Steve Vizard rises to the occasion. #JimmyKimmel #Trump www.afr.com/politics/jim...

‘This week has been a watershed on Australia’s hard road to net zero. The main game now is implementation, as the spectre of climate change awaits.’ The verdict from Grattan Institute energy policy guru Tony Wood in the Financial Review #auspol #emissions #targets www.afr.com/policy/energ...

The Albanese government has finally set a 2035 climate course – and it’s a mission Australia must accept. By Tony Wood from the Grattan Institute in The Conversation #auspol #NetZero #emissions #targets theconversation.com/the-albanese...

‘The similarly ageless Patrick Dangerfield leaves divots, bruises, and trauma. Scott Pendlebury doesn’t leave a trace. He hovers above the game, popping in where he sees fit.’ Jonathan Horn on Pendles #AFL #Collingwood #GoPies www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Grattan talks to Grattan. Michelle Grattan, doyen of the parliamentary press gallery, talks to Tony Wood, energy and climate change policy guru at the Grattan Institute, about net zero, 2035, 2050, and all that. #auspol #climate #targets theconversation.com/politics-wit...

‘Getting shit done.’ Joel Deane on Dan Andrews. Typically insightful. #auspol #springst www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/c...

The business case for corporate tax reform needs to be rather more sophisticated than just ‘cut our taxes’. Grattan Institute CEO Aruna Sathanapally writes for the Financial Review #auspol #ausecon #GST www.afr.com/policy/tax-a...

Dan. Mate. www.afr.com/rear-window/...

The old man could play #AFL #AFLfinals #GoPies

‘Well off the pace’ Grattan Institute education policy expert Amy Haywood slams weak student improvement targets #auspol #schools #funding educationhq.com/news/well-of...

‘We’re going to have to break a few eggs’   Grattan Institute housing policy expert Joey Moloney on the dearth of social housing in our most desirable suburbs   #auspol #springst www.theage.com.au/property/new...

The age of incrementalism Grattan Institute CEO Aruna Sathanapally reflects on why big bang policy reform seems so hard these days #auspol #ausecon #productivity #tax grattan.edu.au/news/age-of-...

Australia’s workforce is almost evenly split between men and women. Yet fewer than 1 in 4 Australians work in a gender-balanced occupation. Jessica Geraghty from Grattan Institute shows why this is bad – for workers, businesses, all of us. #auspol #gender #jobs grattan.edu.au/news/fixing-...

‘dying’ theconversation.com/local-journa...

‘The clear analysis of the failings of the tax system presented by Grattan Institute CEO Aruna Sathanapally at the roundtable did not deserve to be dismissed by the PM as academic talk.’ Julianne Schultz on the fate of the fair go. #auspol #inequality www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Politicians love to talk about how education has the power to change lives. They're right. But Australia's young people are relying on these leaders to believe what they say and deliver what they promise.’ By Jordana Hunter and Nick Parkinson from Grattan Institute grattan.edu.au/news/school-...

‘For Australia to seize the opportunities that net zero brings, Australians must feel that net zero is theirs. Something done by them and for them, not to them.’   Alison Reeve from Grattan Institute on Australia’s net-zero challenge   #auspol #climate #farmers grattan.edu.au/news/net-zer...

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Net zero: why and how Terrific lecture by Alison Reeve from Grattan Institute grattan.edu.au/news/net-zer... #auspol #energy #climate #coal #solar

‘Tax reform is hard, not least because of the wall of noise that confronts any attempt to improve the system’ In today’s The Australian, Grattan Institute CEO Aruna Sathanapally tries to break through the wall and put the case for a better tax system #auspol grattan.edu.au/news/tax-ref...

I know that’s not Trump, and I’m pretty sure it’s not Lisa Cook… #auspol #media

‘Grattan Institute CEO Aruna Sathanapally explained to the Roundtable how younger people pay much more tax than older people even if they have an identical income’ Peter Hartcher on the ‘Holy hell!’ moment in the Cabinet room this week #auspol #policy #reform www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Tax is the talk of the town today. Here’s Grattan Institute CEO Aruna Sathanapally’s speech to the Economic Reform Roundtable on ‘A Better Tax System’. #auspol #ausecon #wages #super #carbon #GST grattan.edu.au/news/a-bette...