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18 December 2025
Another fantastic year of articles on the Policymaker which has continued to grow as a leading platform for solutions-led policy ideas sharing! Here are our five most popular articles from this year.
The Policymaker Team
15 December 2025
Remote First Nations communities face extreme heat and frequent disconnections from electricity when pre-paid credit runs out. Targeted policies could prevent life-threatening outages.
Thomas Longden, Kathryn Thorburn and Lloyd Pigram
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, Christina Sklibosios Nikitopoulos & Martina Linnenluecke
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4 November 2025
Non-compete clauses slow wage growth, reduce labour mobility and are a drag on productivity. Removing these restrictive terms can boost workers’ choices while driving sustainable economic growth.
Andrew Leigh
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
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.
Airspace housing: a practical framework for Australian cities
Australia can turn its underused rooftops into a low-carbon pipeline of up to 150,000 new homes.
How ready is Australia to improve productivity?
New research identifies the key determinants of Australia’s productivity – and how they compare internationally – meaning we can prioritise the most important reforms.
Universities can power Australia’s productivity revival
The Commonwealth Government’s upcoming Economic Reform Roundtable provides a rare opportunity to reframe the conversation around productivity and Australia’s leading knowledge asset: universities.
Putting our savings to productive use
The Economic Reform Roundtable is our chance to clear the path for investment in the innovators that can supercharge productivity.
Making AI safe, responsible and productive for Australia
A balanced approach – acting on both the opportunities and potential harms of AI – is the best way to harness this technology’s productivity gains while mitigating the risks to people and our economy.
Productivity: The ultimate measurement frontier?
Meaningful measurement of productivity is inherently slippery. So, in non-market sectors lacking competition and prices, we need to think laterally about how best to measure what matters.
