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Growth: A 50-year journey through Australia's policy challenges.



Growth reports

Growth reports provide a comprehensive picture of specific policy challenges limiting Australia's economic growth.

We work with the Research and Policy Council, the policy community, our members and independent researchers to produce these reports. The first Growth Report was produced in 1961 as a periodical.

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A Taxing Debate - Climate policy beyond Copenhagen (61)
A sensible and measured policy responses to the risk of climate change includes a carbon tax rather than problematic cap-and-trade systems.


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Australia's Broadband Future - Four doors to greater competition (60)
The charged broadband debate: how we can deliver the best information services to customers in different situations across the country.

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Climate Change - Getting it Right (59)
A risk management approach to climate change - achieving reductions in emissions through markets, carbon pricing and investment in low emissions technologies - will preserve economic growth.

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Competing From Australia (58)
Distance is not dead in this big-picture review of Australia's place in the globalising world economy.

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The Business of Defence - Sustaining Capability (57)
More transparency in relationships between the Australian Defence Force and the businesses that supply it will produce better strategic and economic outcomes.

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Lifelong Learning (56)
Australia's ageing population heightens the need for new ways to keep growing the workforce skills of older workers.

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China in Australia's Future (55)
The case for greater engagement with the world's fastest growing economy.

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Infrastructure - Getting on with the job (54)
This much-referenced CEDA report looks at how Australia's hard infrastructure - roads, railways, telecommunications, electric power, sea and air ports - is struggling to cope with the demands of today's economy.

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Innovating Australia (53)
Global innovation experts analyse the weaknesses of Australia's innovation system, the potential of IT and telecommunications and the future for industries such as biotechnology.

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Water and the Australian economy (52)
Australia needs to make tough policy choices if we are to balance economic, environmental and social needs.

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Australia's Ageing Population (51)
The balance between public and private provision of services will assume greater prominence as Australia's population ages.

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Privatisation: A Review of the Australian Experience (50)
Privatisation is about designing an optimal mix of ownership and regulation to achieve the best outcomes for society. Private ownership with regulation is one option. In other cases, government ownership may better achieve society's objectives.

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Future Directions in Australian Social Policy (49)
Shifts in working life, household relations and the economy mean new generations face a very different life to their predecessors; social policy needs to respond.

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Reshaping Australian Social Policy: Changes in Work, Welfare and Families (48)
Economic shifts mean governments need to change the way they approach the redistribution of income.

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Immigration and multiculturalism (47)
Australia can and should pursue immigration as a crucial source of economic advantage and cultural stimulus.