Per Capita Australia in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Per Capita Australia

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9650 0595

Address: Level 2, 673 Bourke Street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.percapita.org.au

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25.01.2022 Labor elders Jenny Macklin and Steve Bracks have been charged with recommending wholesale change to the Victorian ALP in the wake of recent branch-stacking revelations. Will the reforms they propose later this year create a more open, democratic, effective party? Join Jenny and Steve in our recording of a public forum hosted by Open Labor, the Independents, and the John Cain Centre for Social Democracy at Per Capita. Jenny and Steve introduced their reform discussion paper, James Button and Katherine Cozens from Open Labor and Eric Dearricott from the Independents provided short responses before Emma Dawson from Per Capita hosted an audience discussion on the paper and the future of Labor.

24.01.2022 Thank you for your patience while we rescheduled this popular event with Brendan O'Connor MP! It will now take place on Wed 25 Nov at 12:30pm with a bigger capacity & the same in-depth conversation planned on the road to recovery from COVID-19. Register here:

23.01.2022 "A republic without prior truth-telling, a Voice and a treaty...will be empty and hollow...without a transformative vision it is hard to get excited about an Australian republic." Some deep thinking from our Research Fellow Osmond Chiu connecting the 26 January, the republican movement, and 'multiculturalism' in Australia:

22.01.2022 No evidence of need. No public interest objectives. No alternatives considered. Only one supporting submission - from the Department of Home Affairs. The Medevac Repeal Bill wins the wooden spoon in our third annual Evidence-Based Policy Project with the Institute of Public Affairs for The newDemocracy Foundation. To see which policy scored highest, which state government performed best, and which policy response to COVID-19 was least informed by evidence, read the full report here: https://bit.ly/EBP2020_PC

22.01.2022 NEW REPORT: Launching today, the Per Capita #SocialGuarantee is a strong institutional framework to protect us from manufactured precarity. The report by Dr John Falzon argues the neoliberal starting point is neither honest nor realistic. We need a new one: https://bit.ly/percapita-social-guarantee

21.01.2022 Brilliant new series from Guardian Australia on what young people need for good life and hopeful future, including our proposal for a Youth Guarantee ensuring all people under 25 are guaranteed a place in employment, education, or training. You can read that proposal in full here: https://bit.ly/PCyouthunemployment

21.01.2022 This year has shown that the word 'recession' is meaningless if it doesn't describe anything real experienced by the people. Our Research Economist Matthew Lloyd-Cape on how and why we should change how we use the 'R-word':

20.01.2022 Can the Labor Party be reformed? How, and why does it matter? Recent 60 Minutes revelations about branch-stacking and corruption inside the Victorian ALP led the party's National Executive to intervene and appoint Labor elders Jenny Macklin and Steve Bracks as Administrators of the state party and to recommend a new set of rules to clean it up and create a more open, democratic party. But can it be done, and how? Would change make Labor a stronger force in state and nationa...l elections? Are our political parties, so important to our democracy, too dominated by narrow interests? Open Labor in partnership with the John Cain Centre for Social Democracy at Per Capita presented a Zoom forum to discuss these questions and more on Wednesday 9 September at 8pm. The panel included: Andrew Giles: Federal MP for Scullin and former National Convenor of Labor's Left faction. Anna Burke: former Federal MP for Chisholm, Speaker, and parliamentary representative of the Right faction. Janet McCalman: historian of Labor and longtime non-aligned ALP member. James Button, writer and convenor of Open Labor.

20.01.2022 THE PROGRESSIVE SUMMER READING LIST 2020 Check out our top 10 progressive reads of the year, perfect for gifting or for your summer break You can win all 10 by donating $10 or more to our Christmas fundraiser!... List and competition rules here: https://bit.ly/PC-summerreads2020

19.01.2022 Under cover of COVID, the federal government has delayed implementation and reversed key recommendations of the Banking Royal Commission. Join Stephen Jones MP and our ED Emma Dawson next Friday to discuss how the pendulum has swung back towards the banks:

18.01.2022 Our wonderful supporter Kathy was the winner of our full Progressive Summer Reading List last year - here's a beautiful snap of her with all her books. Want to be this year's Kathy?! Head to https://bit.ly/PC-summerreads2020 and donate $10 or more to our summer fundraiser!

17.01.2022 So you've invested in social housing. What next? Get the public/community mix right Get the design right Get the support right... It’s not just the supply, but the delivery that is crucial. The latest from our Research Associate Abigail Lewis:

17.01.2022 For our first event of 2021, we welcome Glyn Davis AC to launch his new book On Life's Lottery and discuss inter-generational poverty in Australia. Thursday 4 Feb, 1:30pm. Want to join the conversation? Register free here: https://bit.ly/OLL-launch

16.01.2022 "Public housing dwellings decreased from 331,371 in 2011 to 300,403 in 2020...at the same time, the number of Australians seeking help from specialist homelessness services has increased significantly." Yesterday's Report on Government Services from the Productivity Commission found no progress has been made in improving access to homelessness support or rental stress in the past decade.

15.01.2022 Great disruptions of the kind wrought by 2020 occur infrequently, but when they do they tend to mark the end of eras and open the way for genuine social and political reform. Our Year in Review shows and restates our commitment to drive that kind of reform:

12.01.2022 Last week's ABS data revealed a rebound in total employment. But young workers have been left behind. Employment was 4.7% lower for 15-24y/o in December than March, and 2.3% lower for 25-34y/o. Altogether, that’s 165.2k fewer young people with a job: https://thenewdaily.com.au//coronavirus-young-people-reco/... Our discussion paper back in June - Coming of Age in a Crisis - warned that young workers would be hit hard by #COVID19au and then left behind by the government's plan for recovery. Our answer? A Youth Guarantee: https://bit.ly/PCyouthunemployment

12.01.2022 A fantastic piece of journalism (sadly behind a paywall) from this weekend's The Saturday Paper, which connects the Productivity Commission report into mental health with the robodebt class action and with punitive mutual obligation policies more generally. It analyses how the policies the government enforces to administer our Centrelink system are not just ineffective at their stated goal of cutting costs - they are actively harming participants. It also quotes our researcher Simone Casey's latest piece in the Australian Journal of Social Issues:

11.01.2022 "In what universe is it a better use of public debt to fund a $150,000 kitchen renovation in a private home than it is to provide safe and secure homes for Australian families?" Executive Director Emma Dawson and Research Associate Abigail Lewis in Guardian Australia:

11.01.2022 We're back for 2021! And today we're reading these predictions for the year in economics from Deloitte Access Economics' Dr Chris Richardson. "We got this," he says. Are you as optimistic?

08.01.2022 "This year's federal budget was a triumph of ideology over common sense and the common good." The latest from our Senior Fellow John Falzon:

08.01.2022 If you’re in jobactive for the first time because of COVID-19, employment services experts Simone Casey and David O’Halloran want to speak to you. We’re doing a new round of research into employment services and this time we want to know if first-time users of the system are getting what they need. Zoom interviews will take one hour and you’ll get a $50 gift voucher for your time.... If you’re over 18, in employment services for the first time, and keen to help us with our program of research in this space (or know someone who is!), email [email protected] thank you!

08.01.2022 "While this might seem like a small change, for people like me who have been advocating for change to payment suspensions for over two years, it is a big deal." Our Research Associate Simone Casey on the new 48-hour suspension rule, and how even small wins under this government are worth celebrating:

06.01.2022 In 2020 we (and our tireless advocacy partners): Asked the Inquiry into Homelessness in Victoria to invest urgently in social housing Published research on the value of investing Advocated for social housing in the media... Held an event calling for investment in public housing specifically And now...

05.01.2022 The latest from Emma Dawson is on all the problems with JobMaker, a scheme that, like "the government’s broader approach to economic recovery...is focused on the metrics rather than the substance of the challenges facing our nation."

04.01.2022 The recent Federal Budget has kick-started a renewed national conversation about universal, high-quality early learning. We know early learning is not just vital for children, it’s a potential powerhouse for economic recovery and increasing women’s participation in the workforce. Join us Monday 9 November from 6:30pm for a special online event, ‘How quality early learning can rebuild our economy’.... The event will be facilitated by our ED Emma Dawson and feature fellow panellists Jay Weatherill from the Thrive by Five campaign, Peter Dawkins from Victoria University, and Helen Gibbons from the United Workers Union. Free event, register here:

01.01.2022 Instead of including measures for women's economic participation in the Budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said he wanted to see a coronavirus baby boom. He's the latest in a line of 'gender ignorant' Treasurers, says our Senior Fellow Tanja Kovac: