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Beyond roads, rates and rubbish: innovating city governance around the world
23 November 2022
Local governments are vital laboratories for policy innovation and experimentation. How can Australia better harness this potential?
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Australia’s research funding system is broken—here’s how to fix it
16 November 2022
Australian universities contribute to the public good. But we need to be more ambitious about realising their potential. It’s time to remedy and reimagine our research system.
Duncan Ivison
Lessons from a pandemic
14 November 2022
Solving our biggest global challenges means putting people and communities at the centre of policymaking.
Peter Shergold
Cash splash for aged care, but who pays for services in a new home care system?
31 October 2022
Labor’s October Budget was good news for aged care—but the hard questions of funding the Support at Home program remain. Here’s two ideas for cost sharing models.
Rachael Lewis
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31 October 2022
Labor’s October Budget was good news for aged care—but the hard questions of funding the Support at Home program remain. Here’s two ideas for cost sharing models.
Rachael Lewis and Mike Woods
26 October 2022
Solving our biggest global challenges means putting people and communities at the centre of policymaking.
Amanda Tattersall
25 October 2022
Australia has world-leading research on recycling and green manufacturing. Here’s how the right policy settings can harness it.
Veena Sahajwalla
20 October 2022
The Albanese government’s October budget presents an opportunity to transform the purpose and principles of economic policy.
Alicia Mollaun
11 October 2022
Improved data management, monitoring and analysis could be critical to combatting racism – here’s a plan for how research and numbers can help us tackle one of Australia’s biggest social issues.
Jehonathan Ben, Amanuel Elias, and Rachel Sharples
Aged care workforce shortages require action from the Jobs Summit & resourcing for high quality care
5 September 2022
While reforms to improve the quality of aged care are welcome, the government must also consider how to resource providers to meet higher standards.
Nelson Ma, David Brown
Building policy momentum for green manufacturing
Australia has world-leading research on recycling and green manufacturing. Here’s how the right policy settings can harness it.
Australia needs a wellbeing economy, not just a wellbeing budget
The Albanese government’s October budget presents an opportunity to transform the purpose and principles of economic policy.
How could data help us combat racism?
Improved data management, monitoring and analysis could be critical to combatting racism – here’s a plan for how research and numbers can help us tackle one of Australia’s biggest social issues.
Aged care workforce shortages require action from the Jobs Summit & resourcing for high quality care
While reforms to improve the quality of aged care are welcome, the government must also consider how to resource providers to meet higher standards.
Young people must be at the centre of the government’s jobs and skills plan
The new Labor government has a historic opportunity to boost young people’s wellbeing as part of its economic agenda—here’s how.
“Freedom within a framework” – how Australia’s universities can make a full economic contribution
Is now the moment to (re)introduce an independent "buffer body" for the tertiary sector that will enable universities to respond to future jobs, skills and research needs?
Digital solutions to Australia’s youth mental health crisis
Digital technologies offer an opportunity to tackle Australia’s youth mental health crisis. But effective solutions will require us to think innovatively and listen to the voices of young people with first-hand experience.
Australia’s innovation future: an agenda to transform our economy
While fiscal stimulus applied during the COVID-19 crisis has boosted employment, the much bigger challenge remains productivity and wage stagnation. This will require an ambitious national reform agenda to transform Australian industry.
Is there a financial rationale for building trains locally?
New research shows that by taking into account the broader financial benefits of domestic manufacturing, building key transport infrastructure locally can be the fiscally smart decision.
Making capital inclusive for all women
We should reimagine how capital markets can better back women entrepreneurs, especially those at society’s margins, and boost women’s economic security more broadly. The design of a new venture capital fund announced by the NSW Government can demonstrate what’s possible.
