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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

  • No longer lost in translation

    Peter Shergold

  • Measuring what matters: embracing Mental Wealth as an overarching indicator of national prosperity

    Jo-An Occhipinti

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

    Katherine Trebeck

More articles

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

    Australia can be a leader in sustainable business and contribute to a greener and more socially responsible future by developing strategic supports, incentives, stricter regulations and collaboration platforms for small and medium enterprises.

    Youqing Fan

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

    Policymakers should prioritise the risks of inequality, a loss of creativity and self-interested manipulation when thinking about AI.

    Jenny Gordon

  • 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