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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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17 July 2024
A childcare system that responds to the actual needs of families and local communities will improve equity and increase productivity. Here’s what a flexible, place-based approach might look like.
Teddy Nagaddya, Jenna Condie, Sharlotte Tusasiirwe & Kate Huppatz
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
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.
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.
