The superannuation system doesn't work for women. It's time to do better

24 July 2017. By David Hetherington.
The superannuation system was designed for a male breadwinner in full-time work saving for his family. Government, employers, super funds and unions all have a role to play in addressing the imbalance.

Can Boomers and Millennials work together?

18 July 2017. By Philip Taylor.
There is a need to challenge those who would have us view current economic and social transformation through the lens of generational conflict, writes Philip Taylor.

Channel Ten taken hostage as Parliament held to ransom on media reform

20 June 2017. by Emma Dawson.
The Australian Government is currently being held to ransom by billionaire media moguls and the hostage is Channel Ten.

Australia is a high-tax country with a spending problem? Not so fast ...

14 June 2017. By Warwick Smith.
Memo to the Coalition: Australians want the government to spend more, not less, on social services.

Budget 2017: We need full employment, not victim blaming

12 May 2017. by Warwick Smith.
Unemployment benefits are kept intentionally low to motivate the unemployed to get jobs. Again, never mentioned is that there are far more job seekers than jobs; meaning hundreds of thousands of Australians are kept in poverty in order to motivate them to get jobs that don’t exist.

Warm words in budget barely disguise a story of fiscal failure

10 May 2017, The Guardian. By Stephen Koukoukas.
Judged by the promise set out in 2014 to balance the books, the Coalition has been a disaster. Australia’s triple-A rating must be in jeopardy.

There is a fix for house prices - but Victoria has missed its opportunity again

3 May 2017. By Warwick Smith.
The Victorian 2017/18 budget contains a handful of measures aimed at improving housing affordability, but they do nothing to address the broader problem

The great moral hazards at the heart of Victorian budget

2 May 2017, The New Daily. By Warwick Smith.
This year's budget is a commendable effort with measures to tackle domestic violence, increases in health, education and transport spending, but impressive spending programs are undermined by how the revenue is raised.

ScoMo's ludicrous new budget slogan is stupid and unnecessary

2 May 2017. By Stephen Koukoukas.
The good debt, bad debt slogan is cover for the need for a wider budget deficit, which is nothing to be ashamed of.

Is a collective future still possible?

26 April 2017. By Tim Lyons
Speech to the Victorian Fabians event: "Is Neoliberalism killing social democracy?"

Merger of conservative parties, Turnbull's meeting with Trump, our National Anthem

26 April 2017. The Drum
Per Capita's David Hetherington joins Caroline Overington, Norman Swan and host Ellen Fanning to discuss the merger between Australian Conservatives and Family First; Turnbull's meeting with Trump; and does our National Anthem need updating?

The Australian budget is likely to confirm this is a big-spending, big-taxing government

19 April 2017, The Guardian. By Stephen Koukoukas.
With an ageing population, rises in health, aged care and education spending, the electorate may demand a bigger government than ever before.

The Shorter Working Week

4 April 2017, Uncommon Sense on 3RRR
Per Capita's Emma Dawson talks to Amy Mullins on why we need to start taking seriously a shorter working week.

Super for housing, census results & pollies and the media, on The Drum

11 April 2017, The Drum ABCTV
Per Capita's Emma Dawson joins Sharri Markson, Tony Wright and Bernard Salt, with host John Barron to discuss the day's issues.

Sunday Roundtable - The big three: Jobs, wages and taxes

3 April 2017, Radio National Sunday Extra.
Per Capita's Tim Lyons joins the Sunday Roundtable to discuss penalty rates, minimum wage and company tax cuts, with Judith Sloan and Kate Carnell, with host Tom Switzer.

Banks make around 2% of every tap-and-go transaction

24 March 2017, 3AW. Warwick Smith talks to 3AW's Tom Elliott.

‘When I Was Your Age, We Used A Thing Called Cash’: And Other Ways to Fight Back Against The Banks

21 March 2017, New Matilda. By Warwick Smith.
The banks are making a killing every time you swipe your card.

The shorter working week can work

17 March 2017, The Monthly. By Emma Dawson
it’s time to begin a new conversation. Australians need to decide what the “good life” really means in one of the world’s wealthiest nations.

Why is Labor scared to run on the economy?

16 march 2017, The Guardian. By Stephen Koukoulas.
Labor has long been reluctant to argue on economic management. But if it doesn’t make a full-throated case, their poll lead could easily be whittled away.

To tackle housing affordability Scott Morrison must get more homes built

9 March 2017, The Guardian. by Stephen Koukoulas.
The treasurer wants to do something in the budget to make homes more affordable but he has few levers to pull.