Project Description

Return to challenges

Productivity

How can Australia develop a productive and resilient economy through innovation, greater industrial capacity and upskilling?

    Eight industrial policy hacks: bolstering domestic capability under constrained fiscal conditions

    Australia needs a more deliberate approach to industrial policy to achieve a productivity dividend within tight budget constraints – here’s how.

    Christopher Day

  • The wellbeing economy: our opportunity to redesign a more humane economy

    Katherine Trebeck

  • Australia should enhance the ESG capabilities of small businesses – here’s how

    Youqing Fan

  • The biggest risks of AI don’t come from it getting smarter than us – they come from us

    Jenny Gordon

More articles

  • Australia’s research funding system is broken—here’s how to fix it

    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

  • Cash splash for aged care, but who pays for services in a new home care system?

    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

  • Who will lead us to policy salvation? Community-led policy and the power of us

    Solving our biggest global challenges means putting people and communities at the centre of policymaking.

    Amanda Tattersall