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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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5 August 2024
For Australia to better empower low-income households, we should focus on affordability. Here’s how governments and the private sector can work together to achieve this.
Daniel Tracey
31 July 2024
Australians should embrace prefabricated homes as an efficient and sustainable way to boost supply and lower prices. Government should lead the way with a supportive policy framework.
Parisa Ziaesaeidi
26 July 2024
While the environmental and energy impetus for residential battery storage is well established, adopting a “mission” approach could help governments deliver on broader social, economic and sustainability objectives.
Jack Isherwood
A black sky and some green shoots: how to shape AI for the common good
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.
The biggest risks of AI don’t come from it getting smarter than us – they come from us
Policymakers should prioritise the risks of inequality, a loss of creativity and self-interested manipulation when thinking about AI.
How Australia can catch up on clean energy transition
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?
Community battery storage and the promise of a just transition
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.
The five building blocks that nurtured Sharee’s Strong Spirit
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.
Mixed messages: policy considerations for the growing use of illicit substances as therapeutic agents in Australia
Policymakers should draw on Australian and international lessons from prescribing cannabis to implement effective regulation for the medicinal use of MDMA and psilocybin.
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.
