The federal government should review its use of panels in relation to the procurement of both goods and professional services and look for ways to increase opportunities for a...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is tempering expectations for a Budget “cash splash”, on Thursday saying the focus will be on catalysing investment to builds domestic capabilities that take advantage of...
Influential economist Mariana Mazzucato will urge Australia’s leaders to implement “mission” policy that catalyses public-private partnerships to solve existential challenges like the climate crisis when she arrives in Australia...
“You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs,” is an adage often uttered when all the best laid plans around a new, new thing don’t...
“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome. If you have a dumb incentive, you get a dumb outcome.” It’s the most famous public quip of Charlie...
A taskforce of top officials from the Treasury, Energy and Environment, and Industry portfolios have spent most of the last year preparing a plan to make the Albanese government’s...
This time next year, will we define 2024 as a year of renewal or reckoning for Australian industry and innovation policy, action, and output? The federal government, entering the...
The Research and Development Tax Incentive is expected to cost an additional $2.1 billion over the next four years in part due to growing artificial intelligence claims, according to...
We are three years into what federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers calls The Defining Decade. By his own count, he has given thirteen speeches on it since he first espoused...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has issued the Productivity Commission its first ever statement of expectations, requiring the 25-year-old institution to take a “broader perspective” on policy by factoring in emerging...