In this Dollars & Sense episode highlight, Senior Economist Matt Grudnoff unpacks the debate around paying superannuation to underage workers, and why changes to the system could be coming.
Listen to the full episode here, or wherever you listen to podcasts: Australia’s gambling toll grows as government sidesteps total ad ban – The Australia Institute
Host: Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist, the Australia Institute
Host: Elinor Johnston-Leek, Senior Content Producer, the Australia Institute
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Of all the stupidity Australians have accepted as “normal”, our relationship with house prices may be among the most ridiculous. This nation is in the grips of a media panic over a small blip in house prices. This blip apparently deserves wall-to-wall coverage and dire warnings of impending doom.
Older Australians have seen their wealth grow eight times faster than younger generations over the past two decades, but a Senate inquiry has heard housing inequality is no longer just a generational issue. The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) told a public hearing in Sydney that the issue extended well beyond the divide between younger and older Australians.
Australia’s rental crisis is a policy choice, not an unavoidable consequence of market forces, a Senate inquiry has heard, with advocates arguing governments are failing to deliver the stability, affordability and security people deserve from a home.
Australia's largest gas exporters are set to receive an unexpected $18 billion revenue windfall over the next year, due to the fallout from conflict in the Middle East, reigniting calls for the Albanese government to introduce a 25 per cent tax on gas exports
