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Integrating a structured volunteerism requirement into the tertiary admissions system will arrest the decline in volunteerism rates, build a foundation for lifelong civic engagement and nurture a generation ready to uphold Australian values. By Freya Leach.
Labor is using social media bans to distract Australia and surreptitiously push through new censorship laws. By Freya Leach.
Anti-Israel protests are less about mourning the deaths of Palestinians than glorifying the demise of the world’s only Jewish state. By Freya Leach.
MRC Executive Director David Hughes spoke with A Current Affair as part of their investigation into the litigation funding industry.
An outbreak of fiscal incontinence is fuelling inflation and loading us with debt. By Nick Cater.
We need to challenge the current understanding of fairness and intergenerational inequality. Excessive government spending and an outdated tax system are the great intergenerational injustices of our time. By David Hughes.
A lack of regulatory oversight has enabled litigation funders to generate massive returns at the expense of victims in class actions. By James Mathias.
An analysis of household electricity prices in Australia compared to selected developed economies.
A majority of Australians believe social media is harmful and support measures to ban access for under 16s, according to polling commissioned by the Menzies Research Centre. By Freya Leach.
Australia owes its young people an intergenerational inheritance of both a clean environment and cheap energy. One without the other will degrade our societal fabric. By Freya Leach.
Instead of throwing soup at the Mona Lisa, Gen Z should be up in arms over our Defence policy. By Freya Leach.
Following our recent MRC report into electricity prices, MRC Senior Fellow Nick Cater has been actively exploring new arguments in support of nuclear power. As Nick’s recent work has found, the claim that renewable energy is cheapest is easily refuted by examining comparative electricity costs across Europe. Countries that invest in nuclear have consistently cheaper prices than those that do not.
Finland’s pro-nuclear Greens Party sets a new path for cleaner, cheaper and consistent power. By Nick Cater.
Australia has slipped to 10th place in the OECD rankings of end-user power prices. Of the nine countries where electricity is cheaper, six have nuclear power stations. By Nick Cater.
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Australia should follow the lead of other OECD countries by indexing income tax brackets to inflation. By David Hughes.
A summary of the deteriorating forecasts published in the 2023 Intergenerational Report.
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Over the last few weeks the Menzies Research Centre has been focused on providing solutions to turn around the decline of our educational institutions. By David Hughes.
Over the last 20 years, Australian Year 10 students have gone backwards in their schooling by one full year. The government must take the tough action required to arrest declining academic standards. By Sarah Henderson.
The right to disconnect law severely undermines flexibility and does nothing to increase productivity in our workplaces. By Michaelia Cash.