PROGRESS 2050: Toward a prosperous future for all Australians
The Front Project CEO, Jane Hunt, discusses recent research conducted with KPMG that shows enhancing the Child Care Subsidy would support working families and provide an urgently needed boost to the economy.
Jane Hunt is the founding CEO at The Front Project. She has won a number of awards for her work, including the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Award in 2012, granting her an ongoing seat at World Economic Forum events, the Victorian Telstra Business Women’s Award in 2011 and the Melbourne Business 3000 Award for Community Innovation in 2010. Jane is currently a Non-Executive Director of Unison Community Housing and has held senior roles in the for-benefit sector, including CEO of Adopt Change and prior to that the Inaugural Chief Executive Officer of Fitted for Work. Jane was also the Victorian Strategy and Operations Manager for Mission Australia, and has had senior experience across for-benefit, corporate and academic sectors.
It is crucial that government spending at all levels delivers results and represents value for money. CEDA analysis has found that over the past decade, 95 per cent of Federal Government programs with a total cost of more than $200 billion had not been appropriately evaluated. State governments fared similarly or even worse, writes CEDA Senior Economist Cassandra Winzar and Graduate Economist Sebastian Tofts-Len.
Read more Opinion article September 30, 2020Following the announcement of the Federal Government's Modern Manufacturing Strategy, Business Council of Co-Operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) CEO, Melina Morrison, writes that the co-op model can help deliver the innovation and growth that Australia needs by allowing SMEs to more safely scale and invest in research and development.
Read more Opinion article April 19, 2018When some members of society face financial hardship brought about by low income, there are flow-on effects across the whole community, writes WCOSS Chief Executive Officer, Louise Giolitto.
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