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...

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...

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...

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...

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...