By Liana Downey (CEO of Blueprint Institute) Our new report – “How the Sausage is Made: Assessing Australian Policymaking in the Energy Sector” gives both sides of government a lukewarm grade when it comes...

By Jae Lubberink (Blueprint Institute Researcher)   Last week in the AFR, reports emerged of former Senator Eric Abetz, followed by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, decrying the ‘woke bankers’ at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank...

By Liana Downey (CEO of Blueprint Institute)   Into every modellers life will come that sinking feeling — the moment when a politician, board member or client has a clever idea, has made an...

By Liana Downey (CEO of Blueprint Institute)   Is the "circular economy" just the latest buzzword, or is it a critical shift we need to make for the future of our planet? Blueprint Institute...

By Liana Downey (CEO of Blueprint Institute)   The recent decision by the Minns’ government to cut staff at Service NSW is a mistake.

by Sophie Black (Blueprint Institute Researcher) We may argue over the true origins of the mighty pavlova or whether Rugby Union or Aussie Rules is the superior sport, but there’s one aspect in which...

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...

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...

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...

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...