Tag: Productivity Commission

Productivity Commission doubts battery industry competitiveness

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia is unlikely to have a comparative advantage in exporting locally made batteries according to the Productivity Commission’s latest report, as it warns against adopting the “old-school protectionism” growing...

NRF to spur ‘conga line of rent-seekers’: Coalition

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Federal opposition Senators are concerned that investments through the National Reconstruction Fund will be captured by rent-seekers, with several Senators voicing concern. The Coalition arguments follow the release of...

Productivity Commission ignores capabilities Australia already has

Posted on   |  by Marcus Thompson
Productivity and competition go hand in hand, so it’s no great surprise that the Productivity Commission’s (PC) five-yearly productivity inquiry doesn’t advocate for increased sovereign capability across the Australian...

Productivity Commission backs open access push

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Removing the paywalls on research literature would boost Australian innovation, according to the Productivity Commission, which is recommending the Albanese government give consideration to the world-first open access model...

Give private sector access to govt data: Productivity Commission

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government is preventing “high-value data uses” by not granting the private sector access to public sector data holdings, according to the Productivity Commission’s first economy-wide report in...

Chalmers flags digital, GreenTech as productivity drivers

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Digital and CleanTech will be key to halting Australia’s relative productivity decline, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who has again called for the Productivity Commission to be reformed. Speaking...

The Productivity Commission is wrong, again

Posted on   |  by Dr John H Howard
In application, industrial policy reflects a complex interplay between national economic policy, international competitiveness policy and international competition policy. Industrial policy cannot be dismissed with glib assertions about the...