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Tech sector’s slice of GDP hits 9 per cent: TCA

Australia’s digital uplift has delivered a decade of economic growth, a new report shows, but tech firms are only partly responsible for the boom and have grown increasingly vulnerable...

Productivity, security and the cost of neglecting Australia’s R&D

19 March 2026 | by Vicki Thomson

For years, Australia has talked about productivity, resilience and sovereign capability as if they were abstract ambitions rather than outcomes of deliberate policy choices. The Strategic Examination of R&D...

‘Productivity is not just industry’: Australia’s overlooked superpower

12 December 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

As the Albanese government builds its second term agenda around productivity and promises to lean into AI and data centres, the scientists behind Australia’s fastest computers are warning of...

R&D is the lever that will lift productivity – if we choose to pull it

7 October 2025 | by Vicki Thomson

The Economic Reform Roundtable was pitched as a pivotal moment for Australia’s economic future. But ambition alone won’t lift productivity. If the roundtable is to matter, it must now...

Catherine Livingstone puts the case for system-level change

13 August 2025 | by James Riley

Catherine Livingstone has one of the best business brains in the country, and ahead of the economic roundtable in Canberra next week she has called for a bold, system-level...

R&D carved out of ‘five pillars’ productivity inquiries

8 August 2025 | by Justin Hendry

Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood has dashed hopes of early reforms to R&D settings through the productivity roundtable process, declaring it a matter for the Strategic Examination of R&D....

Ayres rules out copyright exemptions on data mining for AI

6 August 2025 | by Justin Hendry

Industry minister Tim Ayres says there are no immediate plans to rework copyright rules to allow tech giants like Google and OpenAI to mine text and data to train...

PC wants stay on AI rules to unlock $116bn

5 August 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

AI will add $116 billion to the Australian economy over the next decade by making workers more productive, according to the Productivity Commission, which has urged the government to...

Could AI really boost Australia’s economy by $115bn a year?

1 August 2025 | by Uri Gal

AI is on the agenda in Canberra. In August, the Productivity Commission will release an interim report on harnessing data and digital technology such as AI “to boost productivity...

Who’s in the room: Ayres’ innovation roundtables

31 July 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

Dozens of industry leaders, policy makers and academic experts will assemble in Sydney on Friday morning to put forward a case for innovation’s role in the government’s expanding reform...

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Tech sector’s slice of GDP hits 9 per cent: TCA

‘Productivity is not just industry’: Australia’s overlooked superpower

Catherine Livingstone puts the case for system-level change

R&D carved out of ‘five pillars’ productivity inquiries

Ayres rules out copyright exemptions on data mining for AI

PC wants stay on AI rules to unlock $116bn

Could AI really boost Australia’s economy by $115bn a year?

Who’s in the room: Ayres’ innovation roundtables

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