Australian Institute for Progress

Publications

• Submission to the Royal Commission into Natural Disaster Arrangements

  Bushfires are a recurring, and mostly beneficial, feature of Australia’s ecology, with many plants and species evolved to depend on regular fires. However severe bushfires represent a threat to human life and property.

• Cross River Rail: privatisations, cost over-runs, and no patrons

  The private part of the partnership buys the rights to the system for 24 years for $1.5 Bn, and then allows Queensland Rail to use it for a payment over the same period of $2.4 Bn, plus another $2.4 Bn for maintenance.

• ALP attempt to slant BCC elections

  3.52% would put the LNP into the minority in council, and 6% would give Labor control in their own right, despite the LNP currently holding 60.56% of the two-party preferred vote.

• Housing affordability index June 2020

  The latest edition of the AIP’s Housing index shows why the HomeBuilder scheme has been so successful, and also explains evidence that house sales have been buoyant during the pandemic.