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Housing construction lags broader economy by 49%: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
... Australia's productivity levels by 49% and is helping fuel the affordable housing crisis, a new report from the Productivity Commission reveals. The Housing construction productivity: Can we fix it? report calculates that the number of dwellings ...

Grattan Institute renews calls for best-in-show super funds, partial annuitisation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
The Grattan Institute is urging the government to mandate the partial annuitisation of Australians' superannuation and implement the 'best-in-show' list of funds to help simplify a "complex" system and allow retirees to spend their savings ...

The productivity bubble has burst: Productivity Commission

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... account figures indicate that Australia's productivity growth remains in the doldrums, prompting the Productivity Commission to declare revitalising productivity growth as a national priority. September quarter figures showed labour productivity ...

Productivity Commission tasked with five new inquiries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
The Productivity Commission has been tasked with five new inquiries focused on identifying ways to materially boost Australia's productivity. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the aim of the inquiries is to lift incomes, standards of living and create more ...

Super fund fees exploit Australians' low financial literacy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... achieve for their retirement, 72% said they'd consider switching to a lower-fee fund. Analysis by the Productivity Commission has shown that a lower-cost superannuation fund could save a typical full-time worker around 12% of their super balance - or ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... inflation. They are building our fiscal buffers at a time of global volatility and uncertainty." Meantime, the Productivity Commission (PC) delivered a warning over Australia's "productivity deadlock". The PC quarterly productivity bulletin found labour ...

Pensioners to pay more under aged care reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... Australians wishing to spend their final months at home but fewer than 10% actually doing so, according to the Productivity Commission. For every $1 a Support at Home recipient pays, the government will pay $7.80. A lifetime contribution cap of $130,000 ...

Government urged to overhaul gift tax system

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
The Australian government has tabled the final report of the Productivity Commission's (PC) inquiry into philanthropy in Australia: Future foundations for giving. The report makes several recommendations to strengthen the foundations of philanthropy ...

Canned 'golden visas' ruffle fund managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... contain a tranche that doesn't steer too far from the defunct SIV. Despite studies from Treasury, the Productivity Commission, and Grattan Institute that support the government's decision and point to the negative fiscal impacts of BIIP, SGH ...

Australia climbs global wealth ranks

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... investors to build a long-term wealth plan and to get the correct advice." The UBS report comes as the Productivity Commission (PC) released a new report showing Australia performs well on income mobility. "For most Australians, the amount your parents ...