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Each year, more than 2,500 Australians die from diseases linked to eating too much salt.

Many international students come to Australia with the hope of staying permanently.

The Housing Australia Future Fund, or HAFF, will finally pass the Senate this week, most likely on Thursday.

A national review of primary care workforce regulations is investigating ways to increase Australians’ access to quality health care.

Wednesday’s National Cabinet meeting set itself a huge task: to fix Australia’s rental crisis. Thankfully, given rents are rising at their fastest rate in decades, the plan it produced just might do the trick.

A key public policy think tank wants tax incentives for landlords and low-cost loans for home owners to encourage them to move from gas to electric appliances.

If every Australian household that uses gas went all-electric today, we would “save” more than 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the next ten years. That’s because there are more than 5 million households on the gas network, and the avoided emissions per home ranges from 5-25 tonnes…

Grattan Institute analysis recommends governments help households transition to electric, and ban new gas connections for homes and businesses

The exploitation of migrants is widespread in Australia. Our recent report for the Grattan Institute, Short-changed, found that as many as one in six migrant workers are paid less than the national minimum wage, which is meant to be the least a worker in Australia can be paid.

From working 20 to 30 hours of unpaid overtime each week in one of Australia’s fanciest restaurants to picking fruit while being exposed to dangerous chemicals for less than $10 an hour, the underpayment of migrant workers is rife.

One in six migrants are paid less than the national minimum wage and the exploitation is also undercutting local workers, according to a new report by the Grattan Institute.