Applying to University through the Early Offer Scheme: Insights from the GENERATION study
Author/editor: Jessica Arnup, Kate Doery, Pedro Riquelme-Gonzalez & Ben Edwards
Year published: 2025
Many Australian universities offer secondary school students a place in a higher education course before they have completed their senior secondary studies. This Early Offers Scheme enables eligible Year 12 students to receive conditional acceptance into an undergraduate course from September,…
The cost of children and adequacy of family payments in Australia
Author/editor: Phillips, B, Webster, R & Gray M
Year published: 2025
This paper develops estimates of the cost of children in Australia for the first time using financial stress data from the HILDA longitudinal Survey. The paper finds that using financial stress data in pooled waves of HILDA provides a strong basis for estimating equivalence scales and their related…
A review of remote employment policy: Where are we, and how did we get here?
Author/editor: Klein, E, Markham, F
Year published: 2025
Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, this paper critically examines the trajectory and impacts of employment policies in remote Indigenous Australia. It first provides a snapshot of the current remote employment crisis. By tracing policy developments from historical contexts to current…
Taking the Long View: Indigenous Employment 1981–2021
Author/editor: Eva, C, Gray, M, Hunter, B, Leroy-Dyer, S
Year published: 2025
There is a significant body of research which attempts to quantify rates of Indigenous employment. However, previous estimates offer an often-inconsistent depiction across recent decades, with the specifications of analysis both by researchers and government changing, and the data environment…
Analysis of 2025 Budget and Albanese Government Tax and Welfare Changes
Author/editor: Phillips, B, Joseph, C, Webster, R, Gray M
Year published: 2025
This paper analyses the distributional impact of the Albanese Government's Commonwealth Budgets (2022 to 2025) and also considers the impact of the 2026 and 2027 tax cuts outlined in the 2025 Commonwealth Budget.The analysis of the impacts of the Commonwealth Budgets is limited to changes in the…
Relative income poverty: levels, trends, context and issues
Author/editor: Bray, J Rob
Year published: 2024
There are many conceptions of what poverty means in contemporary western societies, and an array of ways of seeking to measure its incidence. Data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics Australia (HILDA) survey is used here to consider these issues and analyse trends over the past 21 years…