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6 March 2024
What role can stories play in supporting people-centred policymaking and place-based reform?
Thea Snow
27 February 2024
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.
José-Miguel Bello y Villarino
7 February 2024
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
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4 July 2023
A passive approach to emerging artificial intelligence technologies could generate significant social problems – but “mission economy” and “just transition” approaches to AI can unlock a better, more inclusive future.
Jack Isherwood
20 June 2023
Policymakers should prioritise the risks of inequality, a loss of creativity and self-interested manipulation when thinking about AI.
Jenny Gordon
24 May 2023
In the face of global warming and the limited capacity of renewables, Australia squandered its hydrogen opportunity. What can we do to catch up on the clean energy transition?
Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou
2 May 2023
Policymakers can empower communities to contribute to greater energy efficiency and resilience by applying a “just transition” lens to new technologies such as community battery storage.
Jack Isherwood
28 April 2023
Putting First Nations people in the driver’s seat of community development isn’t just the right thing to do – it delivers better outcomes too.
Jasmine Miller and Colina Reuben
26 April 2023
Policymakers should draw on Australian and international lessons from prescribing cannabis to implement effective regulation for the medicinal use of MDMA and psilocybin.
Jack Wilson, Emily Stockings, and Maree Teesson
Who will lead us to policy salvation? Community-led policy and the power of us
Solving our biggest global challenges means putting people and communities at the centre of policymaking.
Building policy momentum for green manufacturing
Australia has world-leading research on recycling and green manufacturing. Here’s how the right policy settings can harness it.
Australia needs a wellbeing economy, not just a wellbeing budget
The Albanese government’s October budget presents an opportunity to transform the purpose and principles of economic policy.
How could data help us combat racism?
Improved data management, monitoring and analysis could be critical to combatting racism – here’s a plan for how research and numbers can help us tackle one of Australia’s biggest social issues.
Aged care workforce shortages require action from the Jobs Summit & resourcing for high quality care
While reforms to improve the quality of aged care are welcome, the government must also consider how to resource providers to meet higher standards.
Young people must be at the centre of the government’s jobs and skills plan
The new Labor government has a historic opportunity to boost young people’s wellbeing as part of its economic agenda—here’s how.
“Freedom within a framework” – how Australia’s universities can make a full economic contribution
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?
Digital solutions to Australia’s youth mental health crisis
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.
Australia’s innovation future: an agenda to transform our economy
While fiscal stimulus applied during the COVID-19 crisis has boosted employment, the much bigger challenge remains productivity and wage stagnation. This will require an ambitious national reform agenda to transform Australian industry.
Is there a financial rationale for building trains locally?
New research shows that by taking into account the broader financial benefits of domestic manufacturing, building key transport infrastructure locally can be the fiscally smart decision.
