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A Future Made in Australia: The devil is in the execution

Australia’s median house price reached another record high of $1.113 million this week, ($1.6 million in Sydney) representing an annualised rate rise of more than 7 per cent, despite...

Maths is ruining the green energy transition story

19 April 2024 | by Sandy Plunkett

For years, climate crisis experts and amateurs alike repeatedly told us to ‘Follow the Science’. Most of us couldn’t do that, even when we tried. But virtually everyone publicly...

‘The time for fairytales is over’: Net Zero’s nuclear option

14 April 2024 | by Sandy Plunkett

Ask anyone what drives civilisational progress and typically the answer that comes back is science and technology. It’s generally true. But technology is a second order effect of energy....

Industry policy can’t wait for Productivity Commission revamp

7 April 2024 | by Sandy Plunkett

It is just five weeks until federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers his third budget in what he has frequently described as a defining decade for the country on all...

‘Sovereignty’ in the 21st century is not what you think it is

22 March 2024 | by Sandy Plunkett

Australia is reeling from two rental crises. One is in housing. The other is in technology and it’s the result of the outsized and ever-increasing rent we pay for...

Mission Economy: Rethinking the role of the state

8 March 2024 | by Sandy Plunkett

During a packed event a year ago hosted by Britain’s How To Academy, the celebrated economist Mariana Mazzucato, who is in Australia from March 11-14 on a speaking tour,...

The fight to define ‘sovereign capability’ heats up

2 March 2024 | by Sandy Plunkett

What’s in a name, or a term like ‘sovereign capability’? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll recognise it as the term of the moment. It’s seen and...

Australia’s CDR-enabled digital economy has been strangled

23 February 2024 | by Sandy Plunkett

Remember the optimism around the Open Banking revolution and Australia’s new digital data economy opportunity a few years back? It was enthusiastic but fleeting, having bubbled-up somewhere after the...

Lessons from abroad: Green energy and de-industrialisation

16 February 2024 | by Sandy Plunkett

“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...

On lions, tigers and sheep: Who is driving our industry policy?

26 January 2024 | by Sandy Plunkett

Who and what is really driving Australia’s 21st century industry and innovation policy? Is there a clear overarching vision that is executable and sustainable to reverse – or at...

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A Future Made in Australia: The devil is in the execution

Maths is ruining the green energy transition story

‘The time for fairytales is over’: Net Zero’s nuclear option

Industry policy can’t wait for Productivity Commission revamp

‘Sovereignty’ in the 21st century is not what you think it is

Mission Economy: Rethinking the role of the state

The fight to define ‘sovereign capability’ heats up

Australia’s CDR-enabled digital economy has been strangled

Lessons from abroad: Green energy and de-industrialisation

On lions, tigers and sheep: Who is driving our industry policy?

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