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Productivity

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

    The Finger and the Moon: measuring research impact by nesting abstractions in contexts

    Simple quantitative metrics don’t do justice to the breadth and complexity of human experience. Researchers and policymakers can benefit from frameworks implementing a nested relationship between data and lived experiences, metrics and relational processes.

    Juliet Bennett

  • Australia’s innovation future: an agenda to transform our economy

    Roy Green

  • Is there a financial rationale for building trains locally?

    Christopher Day

  • Making capital inclusive for all women

    Vafa Ghazavi

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  • Future-proofing the Australian economy

    Future-proofing the Australian economy

    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

    Focusing on both employment law and how we design visas could help address the systemic underpayment of migrant workers.

    Anna Boucher

  • A young boy watches his team at a sports arena.

    Child responsive budgeting: Why Australia needs to put children front and centre in policymaking

    For Australia to become more inclusive—where no one is left behind—children need to be front of mind for policymakers when developing and implementing our post-Covid recovery framework.

    Alicia Mollaun