| | Nation-building leader would back bigger country, The Australian, 21 April 2010
Population debates in Australia have always been highly divisive. During the early 20th century, popular and patriotic ideas of a grand Australia of... 
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| | Aussies favour more tax on rich: survey, The Age, 22 January 2010
High-income earners should pay more tax and those less well off are paying too much, a survey shows.
The tax survey, by think-tank Per Capita,...
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| | Stop mood swings and fiscal flings for wiser ways, The Canberra Times, 16 October, 2009
Are we all suffering from societal amnesia?
We have jumped from deep pessimism to zealous overconfidence, even cockiness, in the blink of an eye...
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| | A fairer design for markets, The Australian, 28 September 2009
Over the past half-century, economics has not been the strong suit of the Left. Opinion polls regularly attest that voters prefer left-of-centre...
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| | The case for paying smokers to give up their habit, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 September 2009
Paying people to do things they should be doing anyway seems dumb. But not when it comes to giving up smoking.
Most people are happy to give their...
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| | Is it time to wind back the stimulus?, Life Matters, Radio National, 7 September 2009
Are we 'the wonder from downunder', in economic terms at least?
With last week's GDP figures showing slight expansion in the last quarter, the...
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| | Abbott should see change is good, The Australian, 18 August 2009
The politician burning the midnight oil on a weighty intellectual treatise has become something of a trend.
Kevin Rudd has produced two lengthy...
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| | Politics can nudge people to be better, The Australian, 31 July 2009
Somewhere at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam there is a urinal with a life-size fly painted on it at a strategic height. It was put there as an...
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| | How science of irrationality could reshape the world, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 2009
When Michael Jackson stayed at Melbourne's Grand Hyatt Hotel in 1996, he would order a dozen bottles of Pepsi, Sprite and Fanta, bowls of M&Ms,...
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| | Simple steps to fix share scheme failings, The Australian, 5 June 2009
Who would have thought employee share schemes could create such drama? They usually occupy a sleepy corner of the policy world, but the Government's...
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| | Politics and ideas, 28 February 2008
One of the founding motivations for Per Capita was our dismay at the relationship between politics and ideas in our country. Each of us had our...
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| | A truly progressive approach, 5 October 2007
We’re a progressive think tank. And as we build a new progressive vision for Australia, we also want politicians to adopt elements of it sooner...
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| | A little pearler of a policy, 21 September 2007
Government is one of Australia's favourite whinges. We love laying into politicians, often justifiably so. They’re self-interested, they’re...
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| | Conservatives, debt and interest rates, 10 August 2007
Conservatives have blamed this week's interest rate rise on state government borrowing.
The leak of political party polling encouraging the...
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| | The real debate on inequality, 27 July 2007
This month’s decision by the Fair Pay Commission to increase the minimum wage by $10.26 to $522 a week has reignited a simmering debate on...
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| | What do you mean progressive?
Per Capita is a progressive think tank and at Per Capita we are progressive people. Why do we call ourselves progressive?
We know the language of...
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