Tag: Jennifer Westacott

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Use $15bn NRF to build future industry precincts: BCA

The Albanese government’s $15 billion industrialisation investment should be used to build a handful of “internationally significant precincts” in strategic locations around the country, according to Australia’s key business...

Big picture policy needed for Australia’s future industries

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Developing Australia’s “industries of tomorrow” like quantum computing requires long term, bipartisan public policy and a rethink of research outcomes, with the nation left vulnerable by policymakers, according to...

Adrian Turner on building future industries

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Adrian Turner is the chief executive of Minderoo’s Wildfire and Disaster Resilience program. It should be no surprise that he has spent a lot of time developing his thinking...

Westacott on our sleepy future

Posted on   |  by James Riley
After 26 years of uninterrupted economic growth, Australian business is asleep at the wheel warns Jennifer Westacott, chief executive of the Business Council of Australia. Unlike other nations which...

Westacott seeks lifetime learning

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Business Council of Australia wants the local workforce to be skilled up and kept that way through more vocational education and an ambitious lifelong training plan, less we’ll...

Hope, or just a hopeless joke?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Question: What is a ‘National Reform Summ’? Answer: It’s a ‘National Reform Summit’ without IT! Both the AFR and The Australian have announced that they are supporting the National Reform...