The Productivity Commission is challenging a foundation of the Albanese Government’s Future Made in Australia agenda, arguing Treasury is inappropriately using an oft-cited economic theory as grounds for interventionist...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has rejected “rubbish” claims that the government’s Future Made in Australia manufacturing package is inflationary, insisting the industry intervention will be “responsible in macroeconomic terms”. The...
Australia’s green energy superpower ambitions need a massive innovation and investment scheme to match, and will only be fully realised with a $100 billion a year carbon levy, according...
The Productivity Commission believes Australia is not well positioned to produce its own advanced artificial intelligence models and doubts the productivity benefits of “activist government ‘sponsorship’” across the AI...
The Australian Research Council’s $300 million Linkage program increased revenues for the large companies that received funding support, but had only a limited effect on SMEs involved in the...
Former Clean Energy Finance Corporation director Martijn Wilder will chair the eight-member board of the Albanese government’s $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund. Industry and Science minister Ed Husic announced...
Australia’s relative decline in economic complexity while disappointing is hardly shocking to many industry stakeholders, although they hasten to add that it is not too late for the country...
Australia’s international ranking in economic complexity has fallen again, with the country now sat at 93 out of 133 countries in an index produced by Harvard University researchers. The...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has appointed a deputy secretary from the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance Chris Barrett as the new chair of the Productivity Commission. Announcing the appointment...