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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
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
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We need to engage with men and boys to end violence
What is required to translate recent policy progress into practice when it comes to engaging men and boys to prevent violence in our society? Changing the way men relate to themselves, to people in their lives and to deeply embedded norms that put pressure on men to be a certain way are key parts of the solution.
Putting survivors’ rights at the centre of responses to modern slavery
To combat this human rights abuse, we need to understand the scale of the problem, amplify survivors’ voices and work towards a fair compensation system.
Collaboration is the key to fighting modern slavery
The battle against modern slavery is increasingly occupying the mind of investors—collaboration can contribute to its demise.
Beyond roads, rates and rubbish: innovating city governance around the world
Local governments are vital laboratories for policy innovation and experimentation. How can Australia better harness this potential?
Australia’s research funding system is broken—here’s how to fix it
Australian universities contribute to the public good. But we need to be more ambitious about realising their potential. It’s time to remedy and reimagine our research system.
Lessons from a pandemic
Solving our biggest global challenges means putting people and communities at the centre of policymaking.
Cash splash for aged care, but who pays for services in a new home care system?
Labor’s October Budget was good news for aged care—but the hard questions of funding the Support at Home program remain. Here’s two ideas for cost sharing models.
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.
