Today's disrupted and disrupting environment presents challenges and opportunities that have government, industry, enterprise and education grappling to strategically re-orientate for a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. As technology increasingly shapes our terrain, it’s human interactions that will matter more. Read More
Australia’s ability to form a new and deeper relationship with India has long been marred by limited political and cultural understanding. Read More
There’s a growing sense that core aspects of the governmental mindset that have underpinned housing policy since the 1980s are long overdue for a rethink. And not just in Australia. Federal and state elections in coming weeks provide a timely moment for Australians to reflect on the increasingly obvious failure of governments to manage the triple crises of inflated property prices, lack of affordable housing for people on low to moderate incomes, and property market volatility. Read More
The reworked industrial relations system — and the social, cultural, economic and labour market context in which it sits — has reshaped power at work. Wave after wave of change has had the end result of shifting power to employers. And it is that change in power that, more than anything, explains the stalling of wages growth. Read More
While some may argue to uncap the number of home care places, and replicate parts of the health system by providing free care for all, it’s not that simple. Governments will keep increasing the number of subsidised home care services in response to needs, but costs will also keep rising. Read More
Our culture is awash with abstraction, universalism and instrumentalism, and as such is desperately in need of balancing with precisely the kind of thing that the ethics of care can offer. Here are some introductory reflections. Read More
Elections are periods of intense emotion and elevated temptation. The stakes are high and the political process is highly charged. The government will want to maximise the benefits that come from incumbency and the opposition (and MPs generally) will want to extract all they can from the extra authority that comes their way in an election. Read More
Here in Australia, it’s currently illegal to buy e-cigarettes that contain nicotine without a prescription. That’s not the case in countries like the UK, USA, Canada or New Zealand. And there’s a lot of debate about the issue. Read More
It is time for the Federal Indigenous Protected Areas and Indigenous Rangers programs to be moved back to the Department of Environment, otherwise we risk their ongoing success. Read More
Large out-of-pocket dental costs means two million Australians each year defer visits to a dentist or miss out on dental care. Poorer people are more likely to miss out. Read More
Australian cities are becoming bigger, noisier and more congested. Would restrictions on cars improve our health and stress levels? Read More
Unaccountable algorithms and out-of-control AI are popular topics of discussion. The more immediate issue, however, is how government agencies will set appropriate boundaries for the… Read More
With the increase of global travel and trade, new infections can spread rapidly across countries and continents. The need to prepare pandemic response plans that are both flexible and scalable is an urgent challenge for policy-makers and practitioners. Read More
Governments around the world face problems attracting and retaining staff with digital skills. A Canadian report provides some ideas. Read More
For Aboriginal people, connection to our country, culture and family can be profoundly healing. But in the many decades we’ve spent working to improve the health of Australia’s first peoples - it’s a strength that has too often been ignored and squandered. Read More
