Tag: Productivity Commission

The sagacious school: Education for the age of agility

Posted on   |  by Dr Jamie Dorrington
I attended school and university under the old social contract; do your best at school, complete your homework, study for exams, get a good final score, go to university,...

Promised rigour missing from FMiA bill, experts warn

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Albanese government’s Future Made in Australia agenda is creating real risks to trade and foreign investment while opening the door to pork barrelling and captain’s picks, a Senate...

Apply FMiA national interest test to quantum bet, says PC

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new national interest framework designed to impose “rigour” on Future Made in Australia investments should be retrospectively applied to the federal government’s $470 million quantum computing bet. That’s...

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...

PC raises alarm on govt’s comparative advantage bets

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
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...

Gig Guide: ACS appoints permanent chief executive

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Australian Computer Society has appointed Josh Griggs as its permanent chief executive after a six-month stint acting in the role. Mr Griggs stepped into the role following the...