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20 August 2024
Local microfactories have the potential to sustainably supply the metals and critical materials needed for Australia’s green transition. But what are the right policy settings to support the reprocessing of waste for manufacturing?
Veena Sahajwalla
Anirban Ghose
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18 November 2024
Better coordinated approaches that prioritise preventative health could help stem diabetes prevalence in Australia.
Cristy Brooks and Freya MacMillan
13 November 2024
Effective city-level planning is essential for Australia to meet its Net Zero targets. Australia can learn from leading global cities to improve policy coordination, employ targeted finance and harness research to develop more effective local climate policy.
Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi and Greg Morrison
31 October 2024
Building on international initiatives, a Future Generations Commissioner in Australia could put long-term interests front of mind for today’s policymakers.
Taylor Hawkins
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13 September 2024
Despite having a robust and mature retirement savings system, many Australians are choosing property as their preferred retirement investment. By addressing underlying trust issues in the superannuation system, government can alleviate this added pressure on the property market and encourage a more balanced approach to retirement planning.
Reza Tajaddini, Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni & Amir Arjomandi
2 September 2024
By measuring outcomes beyond immediate upfront costs, governments can develop a more holistic understanding of the downstream effects of their decisions. Here’s where to start.
Cressida Gaukroger
27 August 2024
Innovative analysis of paleoclimate data from the last thousand years is informing better environmental management. What more can governments do to harness this valuable natural record to improve policymaking?
Philippa Higgins, Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Tristan Derham, Lucinda Duxbury and Matthew Fielding
NSW could be a laboratory of democracy on diverse representation
Appointing some ministers from outside parliament could help boost representation and improve policymaking.
Building bridges between climate scientists and policymakers
What does successful knowledge brokering between climate scientists and government look like?
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.
How high schools can best prepare students for the real world
Financial literacy, workplace skills, health consciousness and independent living should all be core lessons for Australian high schoolers.
The dangers of pluralisation: A singular duty of care in the Online Safety Act
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.
Getting the tertiary transition right: six things high schools can do to set students up for success at university
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?
Australia’s housing crisis: bolstering community and individual resilience with meaningful structural reform
Australians have proven themselves resilient in the face of housing pressures – but structural reform to boost supply and dampen rising costs is desperately needed.
Once upon a bureaucrat: exploring the role of stories in government
What role can stories play in supporting people-centred policymaking and place-based reform?
Digital (t)winning: the potential for AI as a public policy design tool
While the political and policy focus has rightly been on regulating artificial intelligence, we also need to plan now to harness AI’s power as a policymaking tool – especially, its capacity to model outcomes in complex systems.
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.
