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8 October 2024
Australia can move beyond sustainability and circularity towards an approach to industrial innovation prioritising regenerating nature and our social wellbeing.
Vanita Yadav
30 September 2024
SMEs are critical to NSW and Australia’s manufacturing landscape and are vital to economic renewal. However, manufacturing SMEs have struggled to increase productivity by harnessing advanced technologies. As government deepens its focus on industry policy, here’s how to fix that.
Dilupa Nakandala
16 September 2024
As the challenges to maintaining economic resilience, social cohesion, and mental wellbeing grow, national time banks could mobilise social production and safeguard prosperity.
Jo-An Occhipinti, Ante Prodan, William Hynes, John Buchanan, Goran Ujdur and Harris Eyre
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29 April 2024
Financial literacy, workplace skills, health consciousness and independent living should all be core lessons for Australian high schoolers.
Maxwell Yong
22 April 2024
With Australia’s Online Safety Act under review, regulators should take heed of the UK’s experience in imposing duties of care on digital platforms.
Rys Farthing and Lorna Woods
20 March 2024
The transition from school to university is a pivotal moment in the lives of young people – how can we better support their choices for improved individual and social outcomes?
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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.
