Tag: Jim Chalmers

Cognitive dissonance and the Future Made in Australia

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
In our increasingly complex 21st century world of net zero targets, green energy transitions, fractured geopolitics and technologically-driven systems change, even Realpolitech can accept that the desire for some...

Govt’s $3m digital ID push in the Pacific

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia will spend almost $3 million on the development of digital identity infrastructure for Pacific Island nations as part of the Albanese government’s effort to counter China’s influence in...

The take-off is already wobbly for FMIA moonshot

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
There are many unanswered questions regarding the viability of the new era of state-led, taxpayer-funded green industrial policy that has become de rigueur in Australia and much of the...

CDR architect says hold the course as banks blast scheme

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The architect of Australia’s consumer data right is calling for patience with the four-year-old scheme and teased additional future benefits after banks on Wednesday warned almost no one was...

Future Made in Australia Bill lands in Parliament

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Albanese government has paved the way for a new era of interventionist industrial policy based on community benefit with the arrival of its Future Made in Australia legislation....

Public industry investment faces more checks

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Future Made in Australia Act will mandate Treasury analysis of private investment barriers to promising sectors to ensure private capital is following taxpayers’ support for industries like green...

A future built on politics: Prospect theory vs mission economy

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
For all the pre-budget Future Made in Australia hype; all the predictions that federal Labor would deliver a bold state-led ‘mission economy’ reindustrialisation agenda of the type evangelised by...

Future fight for Made in Australia billions

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Opposition will try and block an Albanese government plan to provide almost $14 billion in tax credits to Australia’s green hydrogen and critical minerals industries because taxpayers should...