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How Australia’s ‘unfair’ dental system – and the way $1.3bn is spent – is driving inequality and leaving millions of people behind

Half of all government spending on dental care goes to private insurance rebates – meaning those without often skip treatment until things get worse

The Guardian - AU

ACT is not embracing evidence on reading, parents 'in the dark', report says

Australia needs a reading guarantee, the Grattan Institute says.

The Canberra Times

Under 'open skies', the market, not the minister, would decide how often airlines could fly into Australia

Federal Transport Minister Catherine King has offered several explanations for the decision to deny the Qatari government’s request to fly extra flights into Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.

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After years of scandals, wage theft remains a key part of the way Australia does business

Why do we treat wage theft as a minor sin compared to tax evasion? Reforms need to tackle a systemic feature of Australian industrial relations.

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Migrant workers in Australia twice as likely underpaid

A report from the Grattan Institute finds temporary migrant workers are more likely to be underpaid and employers need to be put on notice with jail and fines.

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One in six migrant workers are 'exploited', but many Australians are also paid below the national minimum wage

One in six migrants are paid less than the national minimum wage and the exploitation is also undercutting local workers, according to a new report by the Grattan Institute.

ABC News

Treasurer chooses words carefully as report recommends tax reform to fix budget hole

Facing a possible $70 billion deficit by the end of the decade, Jim Chalmers played coy about what economic moves the government may make.

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Super tax breaks costing $45bn a year are ‘inheritance schemes’ for Australia’s rich, new report says

The Grattan Institute report recommends 10 changes to superannuation taxation that could save the budget billions a year

The Guardian - AU

Superannuation tax breaks require far more radical overhaul, argues Grattan Institute

While the federal government gears up for a battle on its plans to increase tax on very large superannuation balances, the Grattan Institute argues super tax changes should go much, much further.

ABC News

Fair health outcomes start with prevention. The new Centre for Disease Control can make it happen

For the land of the fair go, Australia has work to do on our health. Although the average Australian’s life expectancy is very high, that’s not true for everyone.

The Conversation

The teals want to outlaw jobs for mates. Major parties will vote it down at their peril

The teal independents were elected on a platform of stamping out corruption. Now Mackellar’s Sophie Scamps is taking steps to do just that.

Crikey

Labor urged to halve $8bn a year in fuel tax credits for trucks and heavy vehicles

Reforming scheme would shrink budget deficit and help Australia hit net zero emissions by 2050, Grattan Institute says

The Guardian - AU

Medicare no longer works for patients or doctors, Grattan Institute says

A high demand for general practitioners is leading to longer wait times and putting pressure on doctors. A new report says it's time we overhauled the way GPs work and how they're paid.

ABC News

Michael Pascoe: Coalition still hasn’t learned its integrity lesson

Five months after being defeated by a “teal”, Dave Sharma has demonstrated he still doesn’t get the integrity thing.

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Excluding ministers from grants: mission impossible?

A new report confirms that politicians can’t be trusted to administer grants. Will separating them from the allocation of money really fix things?

Crikey

Jobs for mates is corruption. Dangerous corruption

The Grattan Institute has spelt out in methodical detail just how thorough the Morrison government — and Victoria — was at stacking boards.

Crikey

How legislative gridlock is killing prosperity quickly and democracy slowly

For the past decade or so many laws that are even vaguely unpopular have been left to rot in our peoples’ house.

The Guardian - AU

Australia should grant temporary visas for all jobs earning over $70,000, report says

Grattan Institute says targeting higher-wage migrants will better address skills shortages and workers should be able to change employers

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Teachers don’t have enough time to prepare well for class. We have a solution

Almost all teachers (92%) in our study out today said they don’t have enough time to prepare effectively for classroom teaching – the core of their job.

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