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The first interim report of the Commission’s five-yearly productivity inquiry glosses over inequity.
A new report comes at a critical time. Every year, between 5% and 9% of Australian students do not meet year-level expectations in literacy or numeracy.
How do you measure the productivity of a hairdresser, or a teacher, or an aged care worker? It’s harder than you might think.
The requirement that super funds act in the best financial interests of their members is up for review, as is the nature of the performance test that weeds out poorly-performing funds.
Whooping cough rates are the lowest they’ve been for years. But what comes next?
The Productivity Commission’s startling finding is that passing on wealth actually cuts inequality.
A striking feature of the report is the relatively brief treatment of ‘green’ technologies.
A new Productivity Commission report finds prisoners cost Australian taxpayers more than $5 billion per year. The numbers are climbing while offences are falling.
The Productivity Commission is examining Australia’s incarceration rates, arguing our jails are not providing value for money.
One in every six MySuper funds failed the test. One million members will be invited to leave, and it’ll be made easy.
At the core of changes already underway is that the customer not the bank will own their banking history. It’ll make switching easier, and it’s about to spread to other services.
A major investigation finds the essential supplies most at risk are personal protective equipment and chemicals. Onshore manufacturing mightn’t do much to help.
To drive living standards upward we need new technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.
Productivity was meant to be growing faster and faster. It’s growing slower and slower.
There are many initiatives around Australia designed to keep people with chronic conditions out of hospital. But to take these further, the health system needs a ‘license to innovate’.
Nothing, not even advertising will be permitted unless it is in the ‘best financial interests’ of members.
A major new report from the Productivity Commission calls for an overhaul of Australia’s 17-year-old policy on water.
The Productivity Commission this week released the health section of its Report on Government Services. But what does it tell us, and why is it important?
Poor mental health costs the Australian economy up to A$220 billion a year, according to the Productivity Commission. It will take more than piecemeal ‘announceables’ to fix the situation.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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Incoming Director of the Australian Institute of Business and Economics at UQ, and Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
