The Rights of International Students
Publication | 24 January 2012 | Andrew Norton
Public hospitals refusing to admit pregnant international students. Government schools charging fees to the children of international students. International students having to pay full public transport fares. These international student entitlement issues made the news last year. They are all aspects of a much bigger issue: what rights and entitlements should be available to non-citizens with long-term but temporary residence rights?
|
Australian higher education: trends, policies, performance
Event | 9 February 2012 |
What is going on in Australian higher education? Andrew Norton, Grattan Institute's Higher Education Program Director, discusses the program's first report with Julie Hare, Higher Education editor at The Australian, at this public event in Sydney.
|
Subsidy review plan neither fair nor enticing.
Publication | 14 December 2011 | Andrew Norton
The latest review of university funding has not come up with a convincing basis for allocating higher education tuition subsidies.
|
Summer reading list for the Prime Minister
Event | 5 December 2011 | Grattan Institute
Every year, Grattan Institute produces a Reading List for the Prime Minister; the books and articles we recommend Australia's leaders read over the summer break.
|
Summer reading list for the Prime Minister
Publication | 3 December 2011 | Grattan Institute
The list contains books and articles that we believe the Prime Minister - or indeed any Australian - will find stimulating over the break. They're all good reads that we think say something interesting about Australia and its future.
|
Filling the university information gap
Publication | 8 November 2011 | Andrew Norton
The Ombudsman claims that international students are being admitted with inadequate English proficiency and sometimes passed when they should fail. More independent information on students' prospects and performance would help protect international students and their future employers.
|
The Rise of University Rankings
Publication | 12 October 2011 | Andrew Norton
Australian universities hope to improve their positions in world university rankings. But students may pay the price.
|
Good Jobs Begin in School
Publication | 10 October 2011 | John Daley
The Prime Minister's Future Jobs forum was missing the one minister who would make the most difference to future jobs, the School Education Minister. The economy and the workplace are changing all the time. Government's task is not to dictate their shape or to protect industries. It is to equip Australians to be able to innovate and manage change. The best way to do that is to raise the quality of school education.
|
Inquiry Won't Stop a Changing World
Publication | 19 September 2011 | John Daley
Governments shouldn't intervene whenever the world changes. With restructuring of the steel industry and economic changes in regional areas, government intervention can make things worse. In responding to the impact of the internet on newspapers, the recently announced media inquiry should consider if the best government response may be to do nothing at all.
|
The University Gender Gap
Publication | 6 September 2011 | Andrew Norton
Nearly 60% of university enrolments are women, who have improved their relative position in every year but one since 1957. What does this mean for the prospects of young men?
|
How to Create a World Class University
Event | 28 July 2011 | Professor Andrew Hamilton
In an era of globalisation, everyone wants to be world class. But what is the real measure of a world class university, and what does it take to get there?
|
Investing in regions: Making a difference - A Grattan Report
Publication | 24 May 2011 | John Daley and Annette Lancy
A new Grattan report, Investing in regions: Making a difference, shows that unless governments recognize the fast-changing reality of regional Australia, they will continue to both waste money and deprive many citizens of much-needed services.
|
Investing in regions: Making a difference - Report Launch
Event | 2 June 2011 | John Daley and Annette Lancy
Grattan Institute launched its latest report, Investing in regions: Making a difference. The report shows that Australia's "patchwork economy" - in which some regions are both booming and others are going backwards - is becoming more pronounced. This has profound implications for government policy to promote economic growth and the opportunities of its regional citizens, many of whom risk missing out on basic services.
|
New Program for Grattan Institute
News | 18 March 2011 | John Daley
Grattan Institute is launching a new program, supported by the Myer Foundation, to improve Australian higher education. The program will analyse higher education policy issues, publish proposals for reform, and engage both the public and decision-makers in discussion.
|
Congestion Charging for Roads
Publication | 31 Jan 2011 | John Daley
John Daley spoke at a Roads Australia forum about the drivers for road pricing. He noted both the transport and economic benefits of reducing congestion through pricing and the need to win public acceptance by devoting much of the revenue to improve public transport.
|
Summer Reading List for the Prime Minister
Publication | 10 December 2010 | Grattan Institute
As well as time to spend with family and friends, summer holidays are great for reflecting upon the year past, considering the year to come - and reading. Grattan has put together a selection of books we think the Prime Minister might find stimulating over the break.
|
Wellbeing in Public Policy Practice
Event | 25 November 2010 | Ken Henry, Don Henry, Gemma Van Halderen
Around the world governments are recognising that there is more to life - and government - than GDP. The Australian Government Treasury has developed a "well-being" framework for evaluating policy and outcomes, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics has developed a project named "Measuring Australia's Progress". This is the last in a series of three seminars about social and environmental measures for public policy. The panel will discuss how well-being frameworks might develop in Australia, how they are already being used in practice, and how they might influence the future development of public policy.
|
Broadband Won't Drive Regional Business Growth
Publication | 28 October 201 | John Daley
There is a widespread belief that better broadband will drive regional growth. But the evidence suggests that, if anything, broadband will increase the incentives for businesses to set up in large cities rather than in the regions.
|
A Blueprint for the Next Government
Publication | 20 August 2010 | John Daley
Election campaigns are rarely about the tough decisions that will make a real difference to Australia's future. For the Commonwealth Government elected on 21 August, whoever that might be, taking principled but tough decisions that respond to the emerging challenges and endemic difficult problems will define the character of the government and their contribution to Australia's history. In an article published online in the National Times, John Daley reflects on what this might look like.
|
Mapping Social Cohesion: 2009 Scanlon Foundation Report
Event | 1 June 2010 | Andrew Markus
Grattan Institute hosted a discussion with Professor Markus to talk about the report's findings. The discussion focused on contemporary immigration and immigrants' experiences of connectedness, social justice, sense of belonging and worth.
|
Our Water Ways for UK
Publication | 11 May 2010 | Bruce Cohen and Martin Cave
Together with population growth, environmental change is imposing new challenges on the water sector. The impact is already clear in Australia, and as physical conditions change in the UK, Britain looks to Victoria's water management for lessons.
|
The Australia of Tomorrow
Publication | 10 May 2010 | John Daley
John Daley, CEO Grattan Institute, discussed 'The Australia of Tomorrow' when he delivered a keynote address at the Roads Australia Summit held in Sydney 22 - 23 April 2010.
|
Water Competition: the UK Experience
Event | 3 May 2010 | Martin Cave
Over the past decade, water restrictions have been imposed in many Australian cities. There have also been significant investments to augment supplies, which are coming on-line. With the immediate risks to water security abating, there is now an opportunity to explore how delivery of water services could be improved in the future.
|
In Defence of Liberty - A Grattan Seminar
Event | 11 March 2010 | The Hon. Joe Hockey MP
The Hon. Joe Hockey MP, Shadow Treasurer, spoke at Grattan Institute on Thursday 11 March 2010. His speech 'In Defence of Liberty' pursued the theme that as a nation we have not struck the right balance between individual freedoms and collectivism. This will be an influential contribution to a core issue of our times.
|
Political Polarisation: Lessons from the United States
Event | 1 February 2010 | David Brady
David Brady, Professor of Political Science and Leadership Values, and Deputy Director, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, will be beginning Grattan's 2010 events program, taking part in a Q and A seminar. His knowledge comes from a breadth of areas including public policy, women's movement and internet voting; making him well equipped to discuss political polarisation, and what Australia can learn from the United States.
|
ABC Radio National on Grattan's Recommended Summer Reading List for the Prime Minister
Media Coverage | 10 December 2009 | ABC Radio National
Nothing marks out the true politician quite like the books they say they will be reading on the beach in summer.
|
A Recommended Summer Reading List for the Prime Minister
Publication | 10 December 2009 | Grattan Institute
As well as being an important break for many Australians to recharge the batteries, the summer is also an opportunity to catch up with some reading. But our country's leaders have less time than most to browse and select their books for the beach. So Grattan Institute is recommending a list of books which we thought might be useful for the Prime Minister, and the political leaders of all parties at all levels of government, in dealing with some of the challenges facing Australia today. And importantly, they are also a good read.
|
Australia-US Relationship and the President Partnership Agenda
Event | 9 December 2009 | US Ambassador, Jeffrey L Bleich
Grattan Institute invites you to hear the new US Ambassador, Jeffrey L. Bleich, in his first public appearance in Melbourne. He discussed the Australia-US relationship, and how President Obama plans to strengthen it into the future.
|
CEO Annual Report to AGM
Publication | 5 October 2009 | John Daley
Grattan Institute aims to make a substantial contribution to Australian public life. In our first part year of operation, we have been consciously building an institution, not just an institute. I wanted to review today very briefly what we have achieved already.
|
The 10 Numbers Australian Governments Need to Change
Publication | 10 July 2009 | John Daley
John Daley's presentation to the Adeliade Festival of Ideas - July 2009
|
Thomas E. Mann Visit, Brookings Institution
Event | April 2009 | Thomas E Mann
Prestigious US political commentator Thomas E. Mann was brought to Australia by the University of Melbourne as a 2009 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow and spoke at the launch of Grattan Institute in April 2009.
|
