Much ado about nothing
February 07, 2024
by Jae Lubberink (Blueprint Institute Researcher) Labor’s revised Stage 3 tax cuts make welcome improvements, but let's not pretend that this is big tax reform. Australia’s tax melodrama continues to play out with the...
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Labor has it backwards on JobSeeker
July 10, 2023
by Mark Ouliaris (Blueprint Institute Senior Researcher) The recent federal budget got it all backward with the changes to JobSeeker. Yes, on productivity grounds Blueprint advocated for an increase from the current payment of...
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Amid the inflation hysteria, here's some perspective on Australia's real problematic index
December 08, 2022
by Mark Ouliaris (Blueprint Institute Senior Researcher) For anyone interested in looking past short-term volatility to glean insight into long-term economic trends, the last few years have been challenging to say the least. In...
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Reclaim Liberalism: The fight against the CPAC populists must be won
November 10, 2022
by David Cross (Blueprint Institute CEO) For people who genuinely believe that classical liberalism should be the foundation for good public policy, last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) provided yet more evidence that...
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An Uncomfortable thought on housing
October 12, 2022
by Mark Ouliaris (Blueprint Institute Senior Researcher) Homeownership is not a one-size-fits all solution to retirement, wealth creation, nor the achievement of the ‘Australian dream’, and our obsession with it has stifled the reform...
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Big Tech’s unabated ‘arms race’ for attention is damaging our politics
April 08, 2022
By Mark Ouliaris (Policy Associate) Why, on the eve of a federal election, does the passing of major, ambitious, and bipartisan reform seem an insurmountable challenge, regardless of who wins? It is not as...
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In the phasedown of coal-fired power, preparation is key
January 17, 2022
By Tom Barrett (Operations Associate & Researcher) and Mark Ouliaris (Policy Associate) The AEMO's latest forecast underlines the rapidly changing energy market. Australia’s most likely timeline for energy moving forwards is now what was considered...
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'Technology not taxes; what about spending?'—We know this year’s Budget is going to be in the red. But what if it was also green?
May 11, 2021
By Emma Beal (Researcher) and Harry Guinness (Co-Founder & CEO) If the Government is committed to meeting its emissions reductions targets via ‘technology not taxes’, the Federal Budget is the litmus test of its...
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Federal Government Support for ARENA is Welcome
September 17, 2020
Blueprint Institute welcomes the Federal Government’s commitment to refinance ARENA with $1.62 billion in funding over the next 10 years. ARENA has a proud history of driving research and development in clean energy technologies...
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