Discussion Paper: Further Reform of the Australian Public Service
Author/editor: Podger, A.
Year published: 2024
This paper outlines legislative proposals that have not thus far been prominent among those advanced by the Government. Its purpose is to help promote discussion about the ways in which the efficiency, effectiveness and capability of the Australian Public Service (APS) and its integrity can be…
Gambling participation in Australia 2024: Trends over time, and profiles associated with online gambling
Author/editor: Suomi, A, Hahn, Markus, Biddle, N
Year published: 2024
Problem gambling is a major public health concern in Australia and internationally (Blank et al., 2021), referring to a pattern of harmful gambling behaviours. Population prevalence estimates for past year problem gambling ranging from 0.1% to 5.8% globally (Calado & Griffiths, 2016) and from 0…
Gambling reform in the ACT, 2016–2024: What impact on gaming machine expenditure?
Author/editor: Markham, F & Suomi, A
Year published: 2024
Since 2016, successive governments in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) have pledged to reform electronic gaming machine (EGM) regulation in the Territory. In 2016, and again in 2020, ACT Labor and the ACT Greens negotiated over reforms to EGMs as part of their parliamentary agreements.…
Harm from someone else’s gambling: Affected others in the Australian population, 2024
Author/editor: Suomi, A, Hahn, Markus, Biddle, N
Year published: 2024
Gambling harm entails any negative consequences of a person’s own or someone else’s gambling to the wellbeing of an individual, family unit, community or population (Langham et al., 2016). Gambling harms can be experienced by all individuals who gamble but also by non-gambling family members and…
Income inequality and democratic resilience – Impacts and policy choices
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Gray, M
Year published: 2024
In early 2024, the Resilience Democracy Data and Research Network was established as a collaboration between Australian researchers, civil society leaders and government agencies. The network is designed to encourage interdisciplinary, collaborative and actionable research seeking policy-relevant…
It’s the economy (and housing), stupid: Views of Australians on the economy and the housing market in January 2024
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M, Phillips, B
Year published: 2024
This paper summarises recent public opinion data on views on the economy, as well as experience and views on the housing market. It is based on data from the January 2024 ANUpoll as well as historic ANUpoll data to show that compared to almost any time during the pandemic or immediately beforehand…
Modelling Australian Superannuation with SuperMod: A Dynamic Distributional Model of Retirement Incomes in Australia
Author/editor: Webster, R & Phillips, B
Year published: 2024
In this paper we investigate the impact on retirement balances and retirement adequacy from various policy changes, such as the effects of changes to the Superannuation Guarantee and superannuation taxation policies. To investigate the impact of changes to superannuation policies we create a…