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Aged care workforce shortages require action from the Jobs Summit & resourcing for high quality care
5 September 2022
While reforms to improve the quality of aged care are welcome, the government must also consider how to resource providers to meet higher standards.
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Young people must be at the centre of the government’s jobs and skills plan
31 August 2022
The new Labor government has a historic opportunity to boost young people’s wellbeing as part of its economic agenda—here’s how.
Travers McLeod
“Freedom within a framework” – how Australia’s universities can make a full economic contribution
30 August 2022
Is now the moment to (re)introduce an independent “buffer body” for the tertiary sector that will enable universities to respond to future jobs, skills and research needs?
Libby Hackett
Digital solutions to Australia’s youth mental health crisis
29 August 2022
Digital technologies offer an opportunity to tackle Australia’s youth mental health crisis. But effective solutions will require us to think innovatively and listen to the voices of young people with first-hand experience.
Amira Skeggs
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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
9 May 2022
High-quality mental health care is possible. But it will demand structural reform, effective accountability, and the will to make it a reality.
Ian Hickie
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.
