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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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3 July 2024
“Housing affordability” and “affordable housing” are distinct but related policy objectives. Australia needs an integrated strategy that protects vulnerable groups while fostering an economy that supports quality, reasonably priced housing for all.
Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi & Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni
26 June 2024
Government has emerged as a decisive strategic investor in Australia, helping shape markets to address complex policy challenges. How did it get here and what can it do next?
Simon Rowell
31 May 2024
Harnessing the skills and insight of people with experience in the system is the key to sustainable and transformative reform of our child protection systems.
Jessica Cocks, Rob Ryan and Ben Spence
Place-based approaches can help industrial regions decarbonise quicker – here’s how
Decarbonising Australia’s industrial sector will be essential for Australia to reach net zero. The Australian Government can set the right policy signals with ambitious long-term goals to diversify economically in new clean industries and coordinate investment in specific locations.
The right settings for migrant settlement in regional Australia
Better coordination across all three levels of government and strategic investments in migrant services can boost migrant settlement in regional areas – helping Australians new and old.
Prioritising the rights and best interests of children in law reform
Queensland’s new bail laws will infringe on the human rights of children. A better approach that understands the needs of vulnerable children is needed.
Upstream and downstream strategies to close the gap in criminal justice
It’s 32 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. While progress has been slow – and in some cases retrograde – there is a path to better outcomes for Indigenous people if they are empowered to lead policy responses.
Five research and policy questions to improve societal health and break cycles of disadvantage
How to disrupt policy and enable collective intelligence – for people and place – by asking the questions that matter most.
Collective voices and coordinated action: how multi-agency collaborations can help tackle modern slavery
Modern slavery is a wicked problem for Australia—but effective coordination of the actors involved in prevention, law enforcement and victim protection can enable a more effective response.
Tobacco, gambling, now alcohol: why Australia needs mandated alcohol warnings
The harms and costs of alcohol to Australia are clear. Government needs to mandate effective messaging around alcohol consumption.
The Policymaker in 2022: our most-read articles
It’s been a big first year for The Policymaker—here are our top five most-read articles for 2022.
A different story: anti-slavery as smart public policy
The NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner explains why it’s in everyone’s interests to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking as a system-level challenge.
Thinking beyond self-regulation for tech companies for children’s online safety
New draft codes from tech companies could pose risks to Australian children. A better approach—led by government—is needed instead.
