2024 Commonwealth Budget Analysis and Living Standard Trends in Australia
Author/editor: Phillips, B, Gray, M,
Year published: 2024
The major household financial measures in the 2024 Commonwealth Budget are modelled using the ANU PolicyMod model of the Australian tax and welfare system. Results provide average household financial impacts across different income and financial wellbeing levels. The policy settings for the latest…
ADS Survey Wave 1 Analysis Report and Summary
Author/editor: Esler, M, Gray, M, Lethborg, A, Marasinghe, D
Year published: 2024
Both the summary and full version of the ADS Survey Wave 1 Analysis reports provide key information and insights on community attitudes towards people with disability and the impact on their wellbeing.
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…