August 2025

Australia’s Productivity Commission has been clear that public support for the net-zero transition should rest on a hard fact base. In its interim report on Investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero transformation, Commissioner Barry Sterland framed the task bluntly: “Australia’s net zero transformation…

As economist Paul Krugman famously quipped, “Productivity isn't everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything.” This is particularly the case in Australia where an ageing workforce, slower birth rates, and tighter immigration is constraining growth in the labour force,…