MRC Reports and Submissions

State of the States

New data reveals true scale of international students.

The MRC makes a Submission to the Australian Government's consultation process on AI regulation.

Reforming Higher Education.

Australia has the highest proportion of international students of any large developed country.

How Australia became the lawfare capital of the world

Australian Retail Energy Prices in an International Context

Taking back control: Australia’s Vulnerable Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Leap into the Dark: The Cost of Australia’s Energy Plan and the Risk of Failure

The MRC advocates for early access to superannuation for first home buyers in a submission to a Senate Inquiry.

SOS - Strengthening Online Safety: Empowering Australian Parents to Keep Their Children Safe Online

Competitive Tension: The value of contestable public services in a post-pandemic world

This MRC submission argues that the notion of a national curriculum is conceptually flawed and that the Australian Curriculum has structural flaws, many of which are impossible to fix in its current form.

This submission makes a number of recommendations to strengthen oversight of judges and to help maintain public confidence that the judiciary are making decisions free of bias.

From the ground up: Unleashing the potential of soil

Powering out of Pandemic: Unleashing the Potential of Gas

Gender and Politics 2020: The Path Towards Real Diversity

COVID-19: Getting Australia Safely Back to Work

Litigation Nation: How Australia has become an investment destination at the expense of justice

Strengthening resilience: Managing national disasters after the 2019-20 bushfire season

Shattered opportunity: How scrapping negative gearing will smash the middle class

Guarding your nest egg: Restoring independence to industry retirement funds

A Hidden Carbon Tax: How bad policy drives up the cost of electricity

Strikes Unlimited: The catastrophic cost of militant unions

Casual Lies: Busting the myths about flexible employment

From industrial strength to financial muscle

Fat chance: Why sugar taxes won’t work

The Shepherd Review: Power Off, Power On

Gonski Revisited: Making the Education Dollar Work for Our Kids

The Shepherd Review: Statement of National Challenges