After almost a decade at Grattan, our CEO Danielle Wood finishes up today, to start a new role as Chair of the Productivity Commission.

Her genuine warmth, humour, and mentorship will be greatly missed in the office. We wish her all the very best.

Tax reform is hard but it’s not impossible.

In her Freebairn Lecture, Danielle Wood argued that tax reform is essential to rebuild the budget, improve equity, and break down the age segregation in the current tax system.

Read the lecture: grattan.edu.au/news/tax-refor… #auspol

Take your policy skills to the next level with our expert-led Grattan Academy courses! Learn how to influence public policy with Danielle Wood & Peter Breadon or make killer charts with Joey Moloney & Anika Stobart.

Register now for our 2023 courses: buff.ly/3ernCgV

We’re delighted to announce that we are launching a Disability Program.

Disability touches the lives of millions of Australians and is a growing area of public policy.

We are now seeking an experienced policy researcher to lead the program. Find out more grattan.edu.au/news/grattan-l…

Is Labor's Budget fair, and will it add to inflation... the two big questions around Jim Chalmers MP budget. On #ThePartyRoom today we play Meet the Economist with Danielle Wood
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Have to admit I did not expect to be getting this out from the back of the cupboard! Some chance the budget will be in surplus this FY but structural deficit remains sizeable.

“After 20 years of slipping further behind community living standards, Australia’s unemployment benefits are among the lowest – and by some measures the lowest – in the OECD.” 

Grattan Institute’s Danielle Wood on what to expect from the May budget. satpa.pe/dwood2f84

On this week's episode of #DemocracySausage 🎙️, CEO of the Grattan Institute, Danielle Wood, joins Prof Mark Kenny & Dr Marija Taflaga to discuss the pressures facing the Australian economy and to preview the May budget. #auspol #ausecon ANU Media

🎧 bit.ly/3VcnT8P.

One recommendation in my last report Grattan Institute was to increase PBS dispensed quantities. Good idea then, good idea now. Not so universal: How to reduce out-of-pocket healthcare payments grattan.edu.au/report/not-so-…

UPCOMING: Danielle Wood, CEO of the Grattan Institute, Su-Lin Ong, Managing Director of RBC Chief Economist, will make their Pre-Budget Address to the #NPC , in partnership with Women in EconomicsAU on May 3rd.

Today the federal gov released their long await electric vehicle strategy, the heart of which is a fuel efficiency standard. A thread - two good things, two for more work - on the proposal. dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/…