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20 November 2025
Prioritising renewable energy is a strategic foundation for a stronger, more adaptable, and future-ready energy market that can thrive for decades to come. A diverse suite of policies is essential to support Australia’s transition toward a more reliable, affordable and lower emissions energy system.
Mona Mashhadi Rajabi
Mona Mashhadi Rajabi
Christina Sklibosios Nikitopoulos
Christina Sklibosios Nikitopoulos
Martina Linnenluecke
Martina Linnenluecke
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18 November 2025
Education and planning policies should be coordinated to ensure all children have access to nature-based play opportunities for their physical and social enrichment.
Parisa Ziaesaeidi, Mary Hardie & Marissa Lindquist
14 November 2025
Australia’s “double majority” referendum system for constitutional change has become a handbrake on common sense reform. It is high time we consider alternatives that harness Australia’s robust, existing institutions of representative democracy to enact critical reforms to our basic law.
Hugh Piper
10 November 2025
In the context of fragmented global governance and mixed outcomes for AI, governments should prioritise building public trust through proactive civic engagement and regulatory innovation.
Maxwell Scott
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31 October 2025
Australia has an opportunity to capitalise on its natural advantages and political shifts to accelerate its Net Zero transition. Attracting investment and the best global talent – while providing regulatory and market certainty through a carbon price – are critical policy levers.
Mona Mashhadi Rajabi and Martina Linnenluecke
24 October 2025
A living digital model for Australia could provide a powerful policy sandbox, helping governments to proactively build resilience, test new ideas and deliver more effective services.
Ehsan Noroozinejad, Greg Morrison and Nicky Morrison
14 October 2025
A comprehensive analysis of forward-looking data could help us identify gaps between our current trajectory and what we really want for our descendants.
Jenny Gordon
Digital Twins: a national framework for Australia
A living digital model for Australia could provide a powerful policy sandbox, helping governments to proactively build resilience, test new ideas and deliver more effective services.
Are we really measuring what matters for future generations?
A comprehensive analysis of forward-looking data could help us identify gaps between our current trajectory and what we really want for our descendants.
Centring ethics in early childhood education and care
Australia should move beyond a market-driven approach to early childhood education and care. Instead, the community and not-for-profit sector should be expanded under a better regulated and adequately funded model.
Supporting gender and sexuality diverse students in NSW public schools
NSW has made significant progress on gender and sexuality inclusion in public schools. But more can be done to address the systemic drivers of bullying and exclusion, including by providing practical support to schools.
Aged care insurance: time to shift the burden from the young
Compulsory aged care insurance for retirees could share the costs of care more equitably while offsetting growing budget pressures.
Investing in prevention: a stocktake of Australian health policy
A more systematic approach to prioritising prevention will help boost productivity and refocus our health systems on individual and community wellbeing.
How Australia can make the most of China’s biotech boom
Through a strategy of selective engagement and active risk management, Australia can pursue a smart alignment of its research expertise in biotechnology with China’s advantages in large-scale testing and manufacturing.
First Nations first: tackling workplace diversity from its foundations
First Nations people, especially women, continue to face racism at work. A more concerted approach to addressing discrimination, emphasising Indigenous experiences, can support people to have safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces.
The power of migrant stories: using narratives to improve policymaking
Migration policy is commonly driven by macro-level data and, at times, political objectives, but incorporating the real-world experiences and stories of migrants can generate more human-centred policymaking, empathetic processes and policy settings.
Navigating complexity: reflections on the past and future of systems modelling in Australian health and social policy
Complex systems science is transforming health and social policymaking. Australia must invest in its systems modelling capability to realise its full analytical and policy potential.
