Tag: Sandy Plunkett

‘Future-making’ Budget needs to show Australia how

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Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers is just days away from presenting his third Budget, one he says will prioritise cost of living relief and “future-making” in a net zero world....

A Future Made in Australia: The devil is in the execution

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Australia’s median house price reached another record high of $1.113 million this week, ($1.6 million in Sydney) representing an annualised rate rise of more than 7 per cent, despite...

Maths is ruining the green energy transition story

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For years, climate crisis experts and amateurs alike repeatedly told us to ‘Follow the Science’. Most of us couldn’t do that, even when we tried. But virtually everyone publicly...

Mission Economy: Rethinking the role of the state

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During a packed event a year ago hosted by Britain’s How To Academy, the celebrated economist Mariana Mazzucato, who is in Australia from March 11-14 on a speaking tour,...

Australia’s CDR-enabled digital economy has been strangled

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Remember the optimism around the Open Banking revolution and Australia’s new digital data economy opportunity a few years back? It was enthusiastic but fleeting, having bubbled-up somewhere after the...