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The latest opinion pieces, analyses, media appearances and updates from the team at the McKell Institute. 

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February 2025
Making the case for greater investment in essential worker housing in NSW
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December 2024
Media release: A Lifeline for Victoria’s urgent mental health gaps
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November 2024
Future Queensland – Election Briefing #7
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October 2024
Future Queensland – Election Briefing #6
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October 2024
Supporting Victoria’s future workers
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October 2024
Future Queensland – Election Briefing #5
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October 2024
Future Queensland – Election Briefing #4
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October 2024
Future Queensland – Election Briefing #3
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September 2024
Future Queensland – Election Briefing #2
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September 2024
McKell Institute convenes delegation in Washington & New York City
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September 2024
Future Queensland – Election Briefing #1
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August 2024
McKell Institute & the United States Studies Center convene AUKUS stakeholders
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July 2024
Watch — McKell’s Max Douglass on why nuclear doesn’t stack up for Australia
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June 2024
Media Release: Minns Government’s record social housing surge bends NSW’s catastrophic trajectory
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May 2024
Post budget drinks with Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas
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May 2024
Budget 2024/25 – What’s in it for the states?
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May 2024
Budget 2024/25 – Highlights & Observations
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May 2024
Victorian Budget 2024/25 – Briefing note
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April 2024
Clayton UTZ hosts NSW Treasurer Hon. Daniel Mookhey and The McKell Institute ahead of the state budget
Economy & Society
April 2024
Daniel Walton announced as McKell Institute chairman
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April 2024
Watch — McKell’s Ed Cavanough addresses Adelaide audience at the launch of the McKell Institute SA/NT
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April 2024
McKell Institute launches new branch, McKell SA/NT, at Adelaide Town Hall.
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April 2024
The Latest at McKell — March 2024
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March 2024
Ed Cavanough’s Address to the Sydney Institute, 25 March 2024
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March 2024
Are we closing the stubborn superannuation gap?
Economy & Society
March 2024
Super is for retirement – not for overheating the housing market
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February 2024
Rockliffe & White must commit to end Tasmania’s era of public transport neglect: McKell Institute
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February 2024
We must do more to protect Australia from illegal and unethical imports: McKell report
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February 2024
The Latest at McKell: February 2024.
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January 2024
Urgent need for worker protections in surging gig economy
Opinion, Penalty Rates & Industrial Relations
October 2023
Be the disruptor: Victoria’s opportunity to up-end the property market in favour of fairness
Housing
October 2023
Urgent call to recognise unpaid labour: spotlight on carers
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September 2023
McKell CEO Ed Cavanough’s debut book, ‘Divided Isles: Solomon Islands & The China Switch’ to be released September 19, 2023.
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September 2023
Media Release: McKell Institute backs passage of Closing Loophole Bill
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August 2023
Statement: The McKell Institute is Unequivocal in its Support for the Voice to Parliament
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August 2023
Data Briefing: How much is wage theft costing your electorate?
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August 2023
Opinion: Pacific power play can kick-start Quad’s grand agenda. 
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June 2023
The McKell Institute appoints Ed Cavanough as Chief Executive Officer.
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May 2023
Media Release: Government-owned land is ripe for housing and must stay in public hands
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April 2023
The McKell Institute appoints Ed Cavanough as Acting CEO
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April 2023
McKell Contribution to ‘Legislating the Objective of Superannuation’ Consultation Paper
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March 2023
McKell Institute Victoria announces new Executive Director
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November 2022
Media Release — Apprenticeships Taskforce a win for tradies, industry and state
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November 2022
Gig Economy Transport Workers Survey
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October 2022
Media Feature — Has NSW been dudded on federal infrastructure funding?
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September 2022
Media Feature — ‘I vomited almost every morning’: not enough being done to protect apprentices, report finds
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September 2022
Media Feature — Disasters cost households more than $1500 each, insurers warn
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August 2022
Media Feature — Capp demands second Metro tunnel as councils clash over city’s future
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July 2022
Opinion: Why isn’t wage restraint chorus calling for dividend restraint?
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May 2022
teacher salaries
Data Briefing Series – Teacher salaries will fall by more than $2,000 under current pay offer
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April 2022
Media Feature — Overdue elective surgeries to triple after pandemic backlog, analysis shows
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March 2022
Data Briefing Series — Elective Surgery
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March 2022
Media Feature — US lesson in why workers need a boost in real wages
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March 2022
Media Feature — Education: Improving standards only way to compete with China
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March 2022
Data Briefing Series — Women’s wages fall
News
February 2022
Opinion: Workers’ party should be the party of low income tax
Opinion
January 2022
Media Feature — Cost of COVID-19 workers compensation cover was ‘overestimated’ by 103 per cent
News
December 2021
Media Feature — NSW Delta crisis ‘triggered’ Victorian mental health surge
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December 2021
Media Feature — Super for housing ‘would send prices soaring’
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December 2021
Opinion: Albanese’s embrace of unloved TAFE is a master stroke
Opinion
December 2021
Data Briefing Series — NSW Teachers’ Real Wage Cuts
News
November 2021
Opinion: Where’s Morrison’s ambition for Australia?
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November 2021
Edward Cavanough appears on the 7am Podcast to discuss Blue Harvest report
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November 2021
Media Feature — Retraining before retrenchment in age of automation
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September 2021
Data Briefing Series — Retail Harassment
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June 2021
Congratulations McKell Institute Board Member Liberty Sanger OAM
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May 2021
Opinion: How to stop the state tax grabs
Opinion
May 2021
Opinion: Playing fast and loose with citizenship
Opinion
January 2021
Opinion: How Australia can take ‘Build back better’ to a new level
Opinion
December 2020
McKell Institute announces new CEO
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November 2020
A Message from the CEO: Resignation & Thanks
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August 2020
Opinion: Why restricting HECS will hurt our COVID recovery
Opinion
August 2020
McKell Institute Victoria announces expansion and new appointments
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August 2020
Opinion: Why childcare must be made free
Opinion
July 2020
Opinion: Are universities delivering the right graduates for the times?
Opinion
June 2020
Opinion: Promising models to power the economic recovery
Opinion
October 2019
We’re failing the people NDIS was designed to support
News
October 2019
Opinion: SA’s contract workers deserve a fair deal
Opinion
September 2019
Opinion: Solar sell should be simple in Pacific
Opinion
March 2019
Opinion: Canberra’s Pacific pivot is bereft of vision
Opinion
September 2018
McKell Institute Welcomes Federal Labor’s Plan to Improve Women’s Superannuation Security
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September 2018
The McKell Institute Queensland unveils its board.
News
January 2018
Narelle Smythe joins the Board of Directors of The McKell Institute
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November 2017
Building code in ABCC bill would decrease apprentices and increase strikes, McKell Institute says
News
October 2017
Opinion: The cost of a raising a child should not be a secure retirement.
Opinion
August 2017
Leaders learning to surf the waves of today’s politics
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April 2017
We can gain a lot by sharing our sensitive health data
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March 2017
Making Super Available To Buy A House Is A Terrible Idea
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March 2017
Talking Point: Fair Work decision hits hardest where we’re already hurting
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March 2017
Penalty rate cuts devastating for local workers
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March 2017
Housekeeper writes to Malcolm Turnbull to ask him to stop penalty rate cuts
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February 2017
Sam Crosby delivers Illawarra Socratic Lecture on March 8
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February 2017
Penalty rate cuts to hasten “mass casualisation” of Australian workforce: report
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February 2017
A Biotech Boom Is More Important Than A Property Boom
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February 2017
Trump throwing allies like Australia under the bus in early diplomacy
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December 2016
The Crucial Early Years
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December 2016
Retail, healthcare and hospitality workers wishing for well paid Christmas
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November 2016
Start made to make Melbourne biotechnological innovation centre
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November 2016
I conquered my dyslexia with help: every kid should get the same chance
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October 2016
Biotech needs policy overhaul to catch global growth surge
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September 2016
China trade arrangements questioned over steel, aluminium dumping
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June 2016
A vote on marriage equality is not an exercise in democracy – it is an abrogation of it
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May 2016
Election 2016: House price growth to slow under Labor’s negative gearing policy, says McKell Institute
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May 2016
Who do you trust? What Turnbull and Shorten can learn from John Howard
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May 2016
The budget is full of old ideas but at least we get a new slogan
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May 2016
Executive Director Sam Crosby releases ‘The Trust Deficit”
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April 2016
Sam Crosby appears on ABC Radio to discuss ‘The Trust Deficit’
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March 2016
Replace stamp duty with land tax, McKell Institute argues
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February 2016
Negative gearing needs to be recalibrated, not completely scrapped
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September 2015
Sam Crosby appearing on Sky News’ The Nation
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August 2015
Australia could be facing the last Post
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July 2015
Australia lagging behind rest of the developed world on early-childhood education
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June 2015
Negative gearing: Labor preparing ground for changes as think tank proposal estimates $29.3b saving
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June 2015
It’s time to change to negative gearing, but it must be fair and practical
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May 2014
A happy country is a socially mobile one
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June 2013
Think Tank calls for ‘portable service leave’
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June 2013
Long service leave might be old fashioned, but we need it more than ever
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