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Nov 24, 2024 | 
campusreview.com.au | Danielle Wood
Home | Analysis | Lecture, course material should be publicly available: Productivity Commission in Analysis, Features, Policy & Reform, Top Stories Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood gave universities a list of recommendations to improve teaching, learning, research and innovation in a keynote address at the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency annual conference earlier this month. Please login below to view content or subscribe now. Username or Email: Password: Remember...
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jo Case |Aidan Coleman |Alexander Cothren |Alexander Howard |Ali Mohammad Alizadeh |Amanda Tink | +44 more
Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers. But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey. That’s where we come in.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Danielle Wood
Do your parents’ economic fortunes dictate your own? If your parents earnt decent money when you were a kid, does that mean you’ll do well too? And if you grew up poor, can you break free from poverty to become well off as an adult? These are questions my colleagues and I at the Productivity Commission asked when we embarked on a project to examine Australia’s economic mobility.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
insidestory.org.au | Danielle Wood
During his decades‑long career as professor of economics at the University of Melbourne — as well as stints at Monash University, the Melbourne Institute and the Business Council — John Freebairn has been among the few people to combine a thriving academic career with a deep, hands‑on engagement with Australian policy. Many politicians and public servants have described to me his rare magic in combining academic rigour with clear communication and a talent for finding a cut‑through line.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
tolerance.ca | Danielle Wood
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Danielle Wood
The Australian consumer watchdog is halfway through an inquiry into childcare prices. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s interim report was released on Wednesday. It comes just days after the federal government’s increased childcare subsidies kicked in on July 1. This is one of two major inquiries the federal government has commissioned on childcare. The Productivity Commission is also looking at how early education is set up in Australia.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
thetimes.com.au | Danielle Wood
The Australian consumer watchdog is halfway through an inquiry into childcare prices[1]. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s interim report[2] was released on Wednesday. It comes just days after the federal government’s increased childcare subsidies[3] kicked in on July 1. This is one of two major inquiries the federal government has commissioned on childcare. The Productivity Commission[4] is also looking at how early education is set up in Australia.
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Apr 30, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Ruby Jones |Danielle Wood
Economist and CEO of the Grattan Institute, Danielle Wood, on how we can afford to raise the rate, and more ways to fix the budget. Read Transcript‘We don’t have enough money.’That’s what governments always say this time of year. But the case is being made for the poorest and most disadvantaged among us to get more support in the upcoming budget. But is it true? And if it is, are there ways to repair the budget that would leave enough money to help raise people out of poverty?
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Danielle Wood
As the May budget draws closer its outlines are becoming clearer. It looks like it will embrace the incremental “don’t scare the horses” approach that has so far defined Labor’s first year in office. Revenue gains will be largely banked, but otherwise efforts at budget consolidation will be modest. Tax increases are off the table for all but the most well-off. There will be some additional supports for the most vulnerable but not big-ticket items such as increasing JobSeeker.
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Apr 24, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Danielle Wood
The federal government's "economic inclusion committee" is unequivocal: the single biggest thing the government could do to make a difference to Australia's most vulnerable would be to increase the JobSeeker payment. Substantially. The Labor government, while making sympathetic noises about the plight of Australians living in poverty, immediately rules it out. What is going on?
