Grattan Institute is dedicated to developing high quality public policy for Australia’s future. It was formed in 2008 in response to a widespread view in government and business that Australia needed a non-partisan think tank providing independent, rigorous and practical solutions to some of the country’s most pressing problems. Grattan runs seven policy programs: Budgets and Tax, Energy, Health, Higher Education, Productivity Growth, School Education, and Transport and Cities. All these policy areas are vital to shaping Australia’s direction as a liberal democracy in a global economy. They are also areas where fact-based analysis and lively debate can change the minds of policy makers and the public, and where key issues are not being resolved.