Our team of researchers includes many experienced media commentators who can provide radio and TV interviews, written comments, background information, data and policy analysis.
Media enquiries contact:
Phone: 03 7009 4905
Email: media@percapita.org.au
Media Releases
All our media releases can be found on our website here.
To be added to our media release mailing list, please email media@percapita.org.au
Our areas of expertise include:
Economic inequality
- Increasing returns to capital; declining returns to labour
- Income support, JobSeeker
- Cost-of-living, price gouging
- Generational differences in the impact of inflation
- The Australian Inequality Index
Work and workers
- Wage growth
- Corporate profits
- Workers rights, casual and gig workers
- Full employment, unemployment and under-employment
- The four day working week
Housing
- Housing affordability since 1990
- Property investors, negative gearing, Capital Gains Tax discount
- The National Housing and Homelessness Plan
- Social housing
- Rental prices and rent freezes
- Opinions of different voter groups
- Gender or generational differences in experiences of buying and renting
- Short-term rentals e.g. Airbnb
Tax and transfer system
- Negative gearing and Capital Gains Tax discount
- Stage 3 tax cuts
- Survey of Australian’s views on tax, conducted yearly since 2010
- Tax reform to decrease inequality and increase social mobility
- Taxing wealth instead of income; corporate tax avoidance
Technology and civic engagement
- Misinformation and disinformation on social media
- The power of ‘Big Tech’ platforms
- Social cohesion, democracy and the ‘public square’
- Regulating AI
- Online safety
- Cyber-security workforce shortages
Government and the public service
- The Workforce Australia Employment Services Inquiry
- Integrity
- Demographics within Federal Parliament – gender breakdown, cultural background, educational background, etc
- Evidence-based state and federal policy-making
Industry policy
- Future Made in Australia Act
- Industrial relations, the Closing Loopholes inquiry
- Education and training, HECS
- The shift to a post-carbon economy
- National Reconstruction Fund
Gender equality
- Women’s superannuation
- Unpaid care and work in the home
- The “foundational” economy (e.g. aged care, nursing, teaching, child care, etc)
- Women’s experience of the housing system
- Older women’s experiences of homelessness
Disability
- NDIS funding and economic benefit
- Contracted care workers
- Auslan early intervention for deaf children
