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Australia’s economy is slowing. Productivity has flatlined, debt is soaring, and growth has frozen. What...
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The Productivity Commission’s statement that careful emissions reduction policy design will enable gains in productivity...
Executive Summary Public debate about the ‘cost-of-living crisis’ often confuses nominal price increases with declining...
This is an edited version of Michael Stutchbury’s keynote address to the 2025 Freedom to...
Introduction As Reserve Bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser noted last year, it can be...
Introduction There is no one action that will lift Australia’s dwindling productivity growth; it is...
Executive summary Concern over Australia’s slow rate of productivity growth is justified as it is...
Australia has a productivity problem. In the past decade, multi-factor productivity has declined by 5...
The Productivity Commission’s second Indigenous Expenditure Report, released earlier this week, shows that Commonwealth, state...
No tax provokes as much irrational trepidation among our political leaders as the GST. The...
Despite decades of tinkering and sporadic reform, the personal income tax system remains in need...
Senator Andrew Bragg and economist Peter Tulip join Michael Stutchbury for a wide-ranging conversation on...
At this Centre for Independent Studies lunch forum on 20 October 2025, Opposition Leader Sussan...
Hosted by CIS Research Fellow, Glenn Fahey. In this webinar, Glenn spoke with Peter Achterstraat...
This submission focuses strongly on the housing affordability aspect of Australia’s productivity. Submission to the...
The Productivity Commission (PC) released a draft report proposing reforms to increased competition, contestability and...
The submission by CIS Research Fellow Michael Potter argues: An excellent productivity boosting agenda is...
To improve Indigenous outcomes, there needs to be better management of overall funding and a...
The Human Services Inquiry is ‘examining policy options in the human services sector that incorporate...
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Australia has a productivity problem. In the past decade, multi-factor productivity has declined by 5...