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Is there a financial rationale for building trains locally?
8 August 2022
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.
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Making capital inclusive for all women
28 July 2022
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.
Vafa Ghazavi
Future-proofing the Australian economy
25 July 2022
While Australia is doing well on full employment, it’s time to prepare for the next downturn by upgrading the economy’s recession-fighting toolkit.
Zac Gross
How immigration policy can help solve Australia’s underpayment of migrant workers
4 July 2022
Focusing on both employment law and how we design visas could help address the systemic underpayment of migrant workers.
Anna Boucher
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6 June 2022
There is now an effective consensus around net zero—and Australia has a range of promising sector-specific climate policies for getting there. Policymakers need to shift their focus to doing so at minimum cost.
Steven Hamilton
9 May 2022
The declining performance of Australia’s secondary schools is limiting productivity growth. An ambitious, inclusive plan for policy reform is needed to move things in a better direction.
Jenny Gordon
9 May 2022
Governments at all levels need a new mindset which places Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander shared decision making at the centre of policy development, design and delivery.
Pat Turner
9 May 2022
Australia’s material footprint per capita is rising. But with the right policies, we can break the nexus between depleting our ecological resources and improving economic growth.
Kar Mei Tang
9 May 2022
COVID-19 reminded us that insights from the lab and the social world must be considered in tandem to tackle some of our hardest public health challenges.
Peter Doherty
9 May 2022
Almost all the materials used for electrification are finite. Waste recycling should play a major role in the transition to a decarbonized economy.
Veena Sahajwalla
The climate wars are over. Now for the hard part.
There is now an effective consensus around net zero—and Australia has a range of promising sector-specific climate policies for getting there. Policymakers need to shift their focus to doing so at minimum cost.
Improving secondary education is not only the right thing to do – it is good for future productivity growth
The declining performance of Australia’s secondary schools is limiting productivity growth. An ambitious, inclusive plan for policy reform is needed to move things in a better direction.
A real partnership with First Peoples is key to Closing the Gap
Governments at all levels need a new mindset which places Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander shared decision making at the centre of policy development, design and delivery.
Conscious decoupling: creating a more sustainable model of material use in a growing economy
Australia’s material footprint per capita is rising. But with the right policies, we can break the nexus between depleting our ecological resources and improving economic growth.
The policy dividend of integrated knowledge: perspectives from the COVID-19 experience
COVID-19 reminded us that insights from the lab and the social world must be considered in tandem to tackle some of our hardest public health challenges.
Australia’s smart waste opportunity to electrify the world
Almost all the materials used for electrification are finite. Waste recycling should play a major role in the transition to a decarbonized economy.
Finding a pathway to better mental health services in Australia
High-quality mental health care is possible. But it will demand structural reform, effective accountability, and the will to make it a reality.
How should policymakers think about the future?
Policymakers help to design the future. Their challenge is to embrace a world of twenty-first century dynamic, complex systems.
