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The chart that shows how happy you are, just as long as you’re old enough

There hasn’t been much room for good news lately, so you might have missed the stellar month Australia’s had in some key global rankings. In...

tuesday 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

The chart that shows how happy you are, just as long as you’re old enough

There hasn’t been much room for good news lately, so you might have missed the stellar month Australia’s had in some key global rankings. In...

tuesday 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

The chart that shows how happy you are, just as long as you’re old enough

There hasn’t been much room for good news lately, so you might have missed the stellar month Australia’s had in some key global rankings. In...

tuesday 20

The Age

Matt Wade

The chart that shows how happy you are, just as long as you’re old enough

There hasn’t been much room for good news lately, so you might have missed the stellar month Australia’s had in some key global rankings. In...

tuesday 20

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

Costly childcare’s a slippery slope. So why haven’t we learnt?

There’s a curious twist to Australia’s education system: the youngest participants are the most exposed to market forces. While for-profit...

09.04.2024 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

Costly childcare’s a slippery slope. So why haven’t we learnt?

There’s a curious twist to Australia’s education system: the youngest participants are the most exposed to market forces. While for-profit...

09.04.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

Costly childcare’s a slippery slope. So why haven’t we learnt?

There’s a curious twist to Australia’s education system: the youngest participants are the most exposed to market forces. While for-profit...

09.04.2024 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Costly childcare’s a slippery slope. So why haven’t we learnt?

There’s a curious twist to Australia’s education system: the youngest participants are the most exposed to market forces. While for-profit...

09.04.2024 30

The Age

Matt Wade

Which Sydney suburbs are bearing the brunt of the population surge?

Huge disparities in population growth have emerged across Sydney as numbers spiral higher in some suburbs but remain well below pre-COVID levels in...

28.03.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Do planning rules really affect house prices? The answer is clear

Big reforms always provoke strongly competing claims. The current debate about housing affordability is no different. Greens housing spokesman Max...

26.03.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

How to fix the housing crisis? Let’s start with this defacto tax on divorce

In the late 1980s, when Paul Keating was pushing reforms to make Australia more competitive he famously quipped that if you walked into any pet shop...

19.03.2024 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

How to fix the housing crisis? Let’s start with this defacto tax on divorce

In the late 1980s, when Paul Keating was pushing reforms to make Australia more competitive he famously quipped that if you walked into any pet shop...

19.03.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

How to fix the housing crisis? Let’s start with this defacto tax on divorce

In the late 1980s, when Paul Keating was pushing reforms to make Australia more competitive he famously quipped that if you walked into any pet shop...

19.03.2024 10

The Age

Matt Wade

How to fix the housing crisis? Let’s start with this defacto tax on divorce

In the late 1980s, when Paul Keating was pushing reforms to make Australia more competitive he famously quipped that if you walked into any pet shop...

19.03.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

The fundamental flaw in Sydney’s tolling strategy – and how we can do better

When Sydney’s modern motorway network was born in the late 1980s, authorities had a choice about how the much-needed road upgrade would be funded:...

12.03.2024 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

The single issue that will hold the NSW economy back in 2024

When Sydneysiders are asked what worries them most, there are normally all sorts of responses ranging from the economy to health care, housing, the...

29.12.2023 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

The single issue that will hold the NSW economy back in 2024

When Sydneysiders are asked what worries them most, there are normally all sorts of responses ranging from the economy to health care, housing, the...

29.12.2023 10

The Age

Matt Wade

The single issue that will hold the NSW economy back in 2024

When Sydneysiders are asked what worries them most, there are normally all sorts of responses ranging from the economy to health care, housing, the...

29.12.2023 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

The single issue that will hold the NSW economy back in 2024

When Sydneysiders are asked what worries them most, there are normally all sorts of responses ranging from the economy to health care, housing, the...

29.12.2023 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Feeling the cost-of-living crisis? Charts reveal who’s getting off lightly, and who’s suffering most

Households have endured a sustained cost-of-living squeeze in 2023 that has changed the way we consume. Stubbornly high inflation and rising interest...

25.12.2023 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

Feeling the cost-of-living crisis? Charts reveal who’s getting off lightly, and who’s suffering most

Households have endured a sustained cost-of-living squeeze in 2023 that has changed the way we consume. Stubbornly high inflation and rising interest...

25.12.2023 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Feeling the cost-of-living crisis? Charts reveal who’s getting off lightly, and who’s suffering most

Households have endured a sustained cost-of-living squeeze in 2023 that has changed the way we consume. Stubbornly high inflation and rising interest...

25.12.2023 10

The Age

Matt Wade

Feeling the cost-of-living crisis? Charts reveal who’s getting off lightly, and who’s suffering most

Households have endured a sustained cost-of-living squeeze in 2023 that has changed the way we consume. Stubbornly high inflation and rising interest...

25.12.2023 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

Take the long view on immigration, it might surprise you

The border wars are back. A temporary migration boom following COVID-19 has stoked worries about housing affordability and congestion. Last month,...

05.12.2023 10

WA Today

Matt Wade

Take the long view on immigration, it might surprise you

The border wars are back. A temporary migration boom following COVID-19 has stoked worries about housing affordability and congestion. Last month,...

05.12.2023 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Take the long view on immigration, it might surprise you

The border wars are back. A temporary migration boom following COVID-19 has stoked worries about housing affordability and congestion. Last month,...

05.12.2023 7

The Age

Matt Wade

Take the long view on immigration, it might surprise you

The border wars are back. A temporary migration boom following COVID-19 has stoked worries about housing affordability and congestion. Last month,...

05.12.2023 8

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

A tale of three Sydneys: The suburbs deeply divided on Yes and No

Australia said a resounding No to a Voice to parliament – but in Sydney, the result was more complicated. The city split in three. The electorates...

15.10.2023 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

How past referendums could give us insights into the Voice vote

“Right wrongs, write Yes for Aborigines.” With that famous slogan, the 1967 referendum to change the way Indigenous people were referred to in the...

13.10.2023 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Which side? Countries that back Israel – and those that oppose it

Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has divided international opinion for decades and those fault lines have been underscored since Hamas’s...

11.10.2023 5

WA Today

Matt Wade

Which side? Countries that back Israel – and those that oppose it

Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has divided international opinion for decades and those fault lines have been underscored since Hamas’s...

11.10.2023 4

The Age

Matt Wade

Which side? Countries that back Israel – and those that oppose it

Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has divided international opinion for decades and those fault lines have been underscored since Hamas’s...

11.10.2023 5

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

Which side? Countries that back Israel – and those that oppose it

Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has divided international opinion for decades and those fault lines have been underscored since Hamas’s...

11.10.2023 50

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

Southern swell: Why Queensland is attracting so many migrants from NSW and Victoria

At least one in 10 residents in many beachfront Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast suburbs moved there from NSW or Victoria during the five years to 2021...

03.10.2023 6

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

The NSW budget explained in five charts

Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has delivered his first budget against an uncertain economic backdrop. It predicted higher unemployment and slower economic...

19.09.2023 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

$115b question: Who gets what in NSW budget (and where does the money come from?)

On Tuesday Treasurer Daniel Mookhey will deliver the first Labor budget in NSW since 2010. When the ALP was last in office, the state budget was worth...

17.09.2023 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

India or Bharat: the dinner invite that sparked frenzied speculation of a name change

A single word on a dinner invitation has triggered a frenzy of conjecture that the name of the world’s most populous nation could change. Earlier...

07.09.2023 9

WA Today

Matt Wade

India or Bharat: the dinner invite that sparked frenzied speculation of a name change

A single word on a dinner invitation has triggered a frenzy of conjecture that the name of the world’s most populous nation could change. Earlier...

07.09.2023 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Matt Wade

India or Bharat: the dinner invite that sparked frenzied speculation of a name change

A single word on a dinner invitation has triggered a frenzy of conjecture that the name of the world’s most populous nation could change. Earlier...

07.09.2023 10

The Age

Matt Wade

India or Bharat: the dinner invite that sparked frenzied speculation of a name change

A single word on a dinner invitation has triggered a frenzy of conjecture that the name of the world’s most populous nation could change. Earlier...

07.09.2023 10

Brisbane Times

Matt Wade

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