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Welcome to the Per Capita blog! Here you'll find all the thoughts and ideas we just had to get out there immediately, as well as the winning entries of our Young Writers Competition and other bits and pieces.

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January 26, 2024

On Whose Account – What’s going on with government spending on housing?

Do you know how much the Federal Government spends on housing each year? How about where that funding goes? And to what end? Turns out, no one does.   Every year, billions of dollars are dispensed through the Federal Budget on direct support to households and housing service providers. This includes Commonwealth Rental Assistance Social ... Read more
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December 28, 2023

Progressive Summer Reading List 2023

It’s time for the annual Per Capita Progressive Summer Reading List! Here are our favourite books from 2023 to keep you entertained over the summer.   The Welcome to Country Handbook – Professor Marcia Langton AO The Welcome to Country Handbook is an approachable guide to First Nations Peoples cultures and history. Covering language, arts, ... Read more
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December 14, 2023

2023 Impact Report

Per Capita’s research and advocacy has had a big impact on government policy in 2023. Here are some of our policy wins from this year: Full employment For the last five years Per Capita has been pushing our Government to re-embrace full employment. Both the review of the Reserve Bank and the Employment White Paper ... Read more
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December 12, 2023

The Centre of the Public Square

The Centre of the Public Square has a simple focus: to build better models of citizen collaboration and strengthen civil society by imagining new methodologies and alternate technologies to anchor this public space. Around the world we can see the challenges to democracy from the business models that propel the current platforms: whether it’s Musk’s ... Read more
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October 26, 2023

Per Capita Statement on the Voice Referendum Result

Per Capita was disappointed by the result of the recent referendum on the Voice to Parliament.   To the First Peoples of this country, we mourn with you.   The Voice was conceived by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as part of the Uluru Statement from the Heart at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention in ... Read more
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October 3, 2023

Welcoming the government’s new definition of Full Employment

Last week the Albanese Government released its White Paper on Employment, announcing that it is “placing Full Employment at the heart of our institutions and policy frameworks.” After years of advocacy, Per Capita welcomes the Albanese Government’s new definition of ‘Full Employment’ and celebrates the commitment to an economic policy that can now be understood ... Read more
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October 3, 2023

“The economic benefits of labour law / workplace relations reforms” – A New Work Relations Architecture Book Launch

Senior Economist for Per Capita, Margaret McKenzie, spoke at the launch of the AIER’s latest book, New Work Relations Architecture,  in Melbourne (September 2023).   “I feel like a very privileged interloper as the economist amongst the lawyers – can’t say ugly duckling any more! – in contributing to the New Work Relations Architecture edited ... Read more
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August 30, 2023

Per Capita Statement on The Voice Referendum

In 2017 First Nations delegates gathered at Uluru and issued a Statement from the Heart, calling for Voice, Treaty and Truth. We at Per Capita believe, as Professor Marcia Langton put it, that people’s lives improve when they get a say.  We therefore unreservedly support a Yes vote in the coming Referendum for a First Nations’ Voice to Parliament ... Read more