Social enterprises have a transformative influence on the lives of individuals, families and communities across Australia. A social enterprise is a business that has a

Albo, or Plibersek, or whoever turns out to be the next Labor leader, might have had a lucky accident. Usually, it’s Labor that inherits an

The next Australian government should replace the “narrow” Productivity Commission with new institutions that would work with a broader range of policy experts and stakeholders,

It is interesting to ponder how officials in the Department of the Environment and Energy are grappling with the opposition’s promise to “fundamentally change our

Since 2010, the UK has built a network of What Works centres, with the purpose of championing ‘what works’ across the UK and ensuring that

Peter Harris has joined the board of Infrastructure Australia, about six months after retiring from his final major government role as chair of the Productivity

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority says the recent South Australian royal commission produced some “useful analysis and insights” and notes a few “areas of agreement” in

The absence of a scientific foundation in the Productivity Commission reports explains why the Australian government itself seems impervious to scientific warnings about the impending

The sheer increase in volume of data globally — coupled with advances in data analytics — has created widespread opportunities to harness its economic and

Data is emerging as the major driver of innovation in countries like Australia and it’s important governments begin to regulate it to avoid loss of

Concerned that partisans are cherrypicking the data on inequality, the Productivity Commission has waded into the debate, urging a refocus on persistent disadvantage instead.  Inequality