While fiscal stimulus applied during the COVID-19 crisis has boosted employment, the much bigger challenge remains productivity and wage stagnation. This will require an ambitious national reform agenda to transform Australian industry.

Australia’s material footprint per capita is rising. But with the right policies, we can break the nexus between depleting our ecological resources and improving economic growth.

COVID-19 reminded us that insights from the lab and the social world must be considered in tandem to tackle some of our hardest public health challenges.

Almost all the materials used for electrification are finite. Waste recycling should play a major role in the transition to a decarbonized economy.

Policymakers help to design the future. Their challenge is to embrace a world of twenty-first century dynamic, complex systems.