Newstart and other Government Allowances: Incomes, Financial Stress and Poverty
Author/editor: Phillips, B, Gray, M, Joesph, C & Webster, R.
Year published: 2019
There is currently a policy debate about whether the value of the Australian unemployment benefit (Newstart) should be increased. On the one hand it is argued that Newstart is not sufficient to cover basic living costs and thus many of those on the payment experience high rates of poverty and…
Public attitudes towards Data Governance in Australia
Author/editor: N Biddle, B Edwards, M Gray, & S McEachern
Year published: 2019
Never before has more data been held about us by government or companies that we interact with and never before has this data been so used, or so useful for analytical purposes. In order to maintain a social licence for this data to be used for research and policy purposes, it is important…
Research Note - Analysis of pensioner home owner house values, 2019-20
Author/editor: Webster, R & Phillips, B
Year published: 2019
This research note presents the results from an analysis of age pensioner home owner house values. Part of the aim of the analysis is to determine the proportion of pensioner household, pensioners and total pension paid to pensioners in households where the house value is one million dollars…
Research Note: Asian-Australian experiences of discrimination
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M, Herz, D & Lo, J.
Year published: 2019
In the August 2019 ANUpoll, the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods and the Social Research Centre collected data from more than two-and-a-half thousand Australian adults about their experiences of discrimination, their beliefs in the level of discrimination that currently occurs within…
Research Note: Distributional Modelling of Labor Tax and Child Care Payment Election Policies
Author/editor: Phillips, B., Gray, M., Webster, R. & Joseph, C.
Year published: 2019
This research note presents estimates of the distributional impact of Labor’s 2019 Federal election tax policy for Australian households by disposable income and household wealth. It also considers the impact of Labor's child care policy. Labor policies are compared with the current policy settings…
Research Note: Living Standards and Cost of Living Indexes
Author/editor: Phillips, B
Year published: 2019
There is significant academic, policy and media interest in living standards and how they are changing. Australia does not have a measure of living standards with a specific focus on households and this index remedies this. The ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods has developed a new living…
Research Note: Modelling of the 2019 Liberal-National Coalition and Australian Labor Party Personal Income Tax Policies
Author/editor: Associate Professor Ben Phillips, Professor Matthew Gray, Richard Webster, Cukkoo Joseph
Year published: 2019
The Liberal-National Coalition ("the Coalition") and the Australian Labor Party are both proposing a number of changes to the personal income taxation system. This paper considers the average household tax rate, fiscal consequences and distributional consequences of the Coalition and Labor personal…