Australian Institute for Progress

Publications

• Australian Temperature April 2019

  The UAH temperature anomaly for March was 0.59 degrees. This is identical to last year.

• Housing affordability index June quarter 2019

  House repayments across Australia were at their lowest level for 16 years in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest ABS figures, but the average first home buyer is waiting an additional 15.12 weeks to save a deposit.

• Are corporations eating employees’ lunches?

  Bill Shorten claims that corporate profits are rising much faster than wages. Not only is this not true, but it is an outrageous cherry-pick.

• Beware the wounded senior

  Retirement income and savings policies could be deciding factors in this coming federal election. Forty-eight per cent of the seats in parliament have a median voter age of 50 years or older.