The Australian Commons is an independent publication exploring the systems, ideas and institutions that shape Australian public life.
It is a place for considered argument, careful reform and long-term thinking about how Australia governs itself, how public institutions operate, and how they might work better.
The focus is not on political personalities or party loyalty. It is on the structures beneath them, the rules, incentives and assumptions that continue long after governments change.
Latest Essays and Articles
- Before You Raise the GST, Try Spending Less
- A Nation Without a Destination
- Paper No. 10 – Who Guards the Rules?
- Paper No. 9 – The Price of Government
- Paper No. 8 – Should Infrastructure Be Different?
- Paper No. 7 – What Is Sustainable Revenue?
- In the Land of the Aimless, the Redhead with half a plan Is Queen
- If the Budget Had a Hard Limit, Would 59 Advisers Make the Cut?
- Paper No. 6 – When Should Government Borrow?
- Five Papers in One: The Idea in Plain English
- Paper No. 5 – A One Commonwealth, Many Borrowers
- Paper No. 4 – Debt, Saving and the Duty to the Future
- Paper No. 3 – The Referee and the Players
- Paper No. 2 – The Freedom of Limits
- Paper No. 1 – A Fiscal Constitution for Australia
