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The productivity agenda

Co-chairs: Warwick Smith

Julia Gillard

Lead facilitator: Tony Mackay

Public submissions: 923

Summary of Stream Discussion

AmbitionandGoals

• Maximising wealth, excellence and equity by driving up productivity to the leading edge of developed countries

• Focusing on human capital through early childhood development, world-class education, skills formation and innovation

• We’ll know we’re there when all Australians realise their potential

PriorityThemes

Material resources are finite but intellectual capital is unlimited so we need to: Equip all Australians through an education and training system that leads the world in excellence

and inclusion Deploy Australia’s human capital efficiently and fairly including by overcoming barriers that lock

individuals and communities out of real opportunities Connect through collaborations in education, business and innovation

Top Ideas

Parents’ and Children’s Centres: Integrated services for children’s health, development, learning and care

Community Corps: Allow community service to reduce a person’s HECS-HELP debt Learning for life account: Develop lifetime participation accounts for every Australian 2020 Scholarships: Merit-based scholarships in skills shortage areas Business – school connections: Australia’s top companies, local businesses,

universities and vocational institutions partner with schools Golden Guru: Retired people as mentors in the workplace One Curriculum: Create one national curriculum with freed up funds going to

children in schools

Options for the future ofIndigenous Australia

Co-chairs: Jackie Huggins

Jenny Macklin

Lead facilitator: Lynette Glendinning



AmbitionandGoals

• Based on national dialogue, formal legal recognition• Able, productive, confident families and youth• Parity with other Australians

PriorityThemes

• New bipartisan dialogue + recognition • New independent accountability and service delivery arrangements

for Govt• Focus on children and their families

Top Ideas

• New education framework, enabling choice• Future Fund to build capacity and capital works• Economic Development Strategy• Value and use Aboriginal and Torres Strait

knowledge - Centres, global identity, digital liberation • Change lexicon of public discourse + public education

Health and Education• Individual learning and health compacts (case management)

• Boarding schools, hostels/ options within communities to expand ed. choice

• Aboriginal Healing Fund to build capacity

• Importance of tackling alcohol and drugs

• Early intervention /prevention for early childhood

Economic development• Importance of jobs

• National review of Indigenous business + survey

• Better CW-State co-ordination of services; Tax Concessions; Entrepreneurial Fund; Indigenous Business Alliance Clusters; corporate partnerships; performance targets and KPIs in Govt contracts

• Closing gap Annual Report to include business ownership target

More Top Ideas

• Support the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

• Sister school arrangements

• Importance of symbols – ANZAC Day, Aboriginal place names, public art work

• Indigenous targets in Govt contracts

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation in national and corporate governance

Low Cost Ideas

The future of theAustralian economy

Co-chairs: David Morgan

Wayne Swan

Lead facilitator: Adam Lewis


Ambitions and Goals

• To make Australia the best place in the world to live and work

– With strong and stable economic growth and employment (top 5 GDP/capita), low inflation

• This will require urgent action to increase economic capacity through the creation of a truly national, efficient, sustainable, innovative and inclusive economy supported by seamless regulation

Priority Themes• Federalism - a more efficient truly national economy with a substantial change to Federal model

• Taxation – holistic review for fairness simplicity and efficiency

• Infrastructure - enabling productive investment in priorities via efficient regulation

• Regulation - to encourage investment and improve efficiency

• Public sector - high-quality open and transparent with public debate

• Talent – unleashing and investing in talent

Top Ideas• Create independent Federation Commission to drive fundamental and sustainable

improvements to Federalism

• Conduct a comprehensive tax review to consider measures to simplify taxes, harmonise and ensure a progressive system as intended

• Regulation reform to reduce regulation overlaps and complexity and to incentivise timely investment in infrastructure

• Create national infrastructure priorities (and priority-setting body)

• Re-establishing annual budgets as the primary priority-setting mechanism for Government policies

• Develop fluid career paths between public/private/other sector to improve the quality of public sector

• National Education and qualification accreditation system and increased education funding

• Reform discrimination laws/support/ accountabilities to remove all barriers to participation

A long-term nationalhealth strategy

Co-chairs: Michael Good

Nicola Roxon

Lead facilitator: Larry Kamener


Ambitions and Goals

AmbitionandGoals

• Close the gap and be “the Healthy Country” for all

• Have a health system structured around the person rather than the provider

• Have a system more focused on prevention

• Be a world-leader in research and translation (including technology)

• “One Health System”

Eight Big Ideas• Create a Health Equalities Commission

• Create a national preventative health agency (akin to “VicHealth”)

• Set-up a regional health partnership (akin to an “ASEAN” model)

• Ensure evidence-based allocation of resources

• Make healthy food choices easy

• Complete rethink of the shape of the health workforce

• Promote better translation of Australia’s research efforts into commercial and health outcomes

• Create a “Healthbook” web-based personal health record (like a Facebook)

1. A “Wellness Footprint”

2. First Aid training for all Australian kids delivered by volunteers

3. Opt-out system for organ donation

4. Health Impact Statements

5. Half-an-hour physical activity built into sedentary jobs

Out-of-the-box ideas

Australia’s future securityand prosperity

Co-chairs: Michael WesleyStephen Smith

Lead facilitator: Siobhan McKenna



AmbitionandGoals

• An effective global citizen

• A deeper engagement with Asia and the Pacific

• Making languages and cultures of our region familiar to all Australians

PriorityThemes

• Develop Australia’s literacy in our region’s languages and cultures

• Closer Economic and Political Integration with the Pacific

• Closer engagement with major economies: US, Japan, China, India

• Promote the central importance of global governance

• Respond to a broader view of emerging security challenges

Top Ideas

• A comprehensive national strategic plan for Asian literacy in Australia, to enhance our engagement in trade, security and people to people exchanges

• Labour Mobility: A rights-based labour mobility program for the Pacific. • Establish a regional energy security forum including all four majors and

Australia• A high level advisory council to advise on our response to emerging

security challenges such as pandemics, energy security, transnational crime, people trafficking and climate change

A deeper engagement with the Pacific

Population, sustainability,climate change, water

Co-chairs: Roger BealePenny Wong

Lead facilitator: Jennifer Westacott



AmbitionandGoals

• Respond to the unprecedented challenge of climate change.

• Taking the brief opportunity to act now to safeguard and shape our future prosperity.

• By 2020

• Australia will be the world’s leading green and sustainable economy.

• We will be on track to decrease our ecological footprint while continuing to grow our economy and improve our quality of life.

• We will have harnessed the potential of our natural assets and human resources to turn the challenge of climate change to our advantage.

• We will be making a major contribution to a comprehensive global response.

• We will have dramatically reduced our emissions and engaged the community and business to adapt to the unavoidable consequences of climate change.

• Environmental considerations will be fully integrated into decision making at all levels.

• We will have reduced our dependency on climate sensitive water resources in towns and cities.

• An integrated, whole-of-government approach underpinned by clear targets and measurement with independent reporting.

• Strong national leadership.

• Stakeholder engagement, capacity building and the importance of changing incentives.

• Education and behavioural change.

• Involving indigenous people in policy development and implementation.

Priority themes

• A National Sustainability, Population and Climate Change Agenda. A whole-of-government approach to climate change and sustainability policy, encompassing government expenditure, taxation,

regulation and investment. Audit on governments’ performance.

• Further investment directed into research and development, and deployment to enable a low emissions energy revolution.

• A set of national environmental accounts, including carbon and water accounts, linked with the current national economic accounts.

• A National Sustainable Cities Program for a nationally consistent approach to urban and regional planning, driving water efficiency and reductions in emissions.

– Supported by tax and other policies that encourage the use of public transport relative to other modes of transport.

• Transform the ecological footprint of the built environment with national planning, building and product standards to reduce water and energy consumption in our homes and in our neighbourhoods.

– Support for low-income households and consider housing affordability implications. – Carbon neutrality for all new buildings constructed beyond 2020.

• Before 2020, all Australians could have the tools to enable them to measure and manage their personal carbon footprint. – Access to smart meters for energy and water consumption.

• A National Indigenous Knowledge Centre to be established and maintained by indigenous people.

• Australia will have a population policy, and immigration program that works in the national interest.

• Expand the use of a wider range of market mechanisms to acquire water entitlements from over-allocated systems.

• The ETS and the long-run carbon price must drive a transition to clean energy technologies.

Top ideas

The future of Australian governance

Co-chairs: John HartiganMaxine McKew

Lead facilitator: Tim Orton



Five big ideas

1. An Australian Republic

2. Collaborative governance – revolutionise the way government and communities interact

3. Modern Australian federation – reinvigorate the federation

4. Bill or Charter of rights for all Australians, including Indigenous Australians

5. Open and accountable government


Three Concrete policy proposals

• Preamble in Constitution to recognise first peoples’ custodianship

• Automatic enrolment (low cost)

• National Cooperation Commission (low cost)

Strengthening communities,supporting families and

social inclusionCo-chairs: Tim Costello

Tanya Plibersek

Lead facilitator: Hal Bisset



AmbitionandGoals

• By 2020, Australia is known throughout the world for its diverse, compassionate, fair and respectful society.

• By 2020, every Australian

– is valued by, and participating in, society– has meaningful access to education, work, health, housing,

justice, care and life opportunities– has a safe, healthy and supported childhood that allows them to

fulfil their potential

By 2020, Australian society– embraces and celebrates indigenous people– focuses on long-term prevention and is experiencing the benefits

of a return on social investment– regards social inclusion as equal and integral to a buoyant

economy and a healthy environment


PriorityThemes

• Making social inclusion a national priority• Creating a common understanding about the society

that we want and value• Establishing a new framework for leadership and

governance to achieve social inclusion• Building and strengthening local communities• Supporting and empowering families• Reducing disadvantage and poverty


Top Ideas

BIG IDEA• Human Rights Charter and a National Action Plan for Social Inclusion• A National Development Index that measures progress against social

inclusionBIG POLICY IDEAS• Early intervention and prevention• National Coordinating Body for the community sector to create a new

way of working with government at all levelsCOST NEUTRAL IDEAS• Microfinance Foundation to support disadvantaged groups in the

establishment of their own business• Establishment of the Housing Foundation to fund responses

homelessness.• Reforming the way government funds community organisations to

ensure their viability• Volumetric taxing of alcohol with revenue to be used for services• National Disability Insurance Scheme.• National statement by the PM on creating a non-violent society.

Future directions forrural industries andrural communities

Co-chairs: Tim Fischer

Tony Burke

Lead facilitator: Graeme Simsion


Australia: 31 Provinces

1922 New Staters Map

THE BIG IDEANationwide harmonisation and standardisation

Nationwide harmonisation and standardisation is urgent.

•This should include uniform regulation, licensing, standards and enforcement for transport (both road and rail) and agriculture. State regulatory reforms would be encouraged through federal government incentives and penalties linked to the rate of progressive reform.

•Future infrastructure investment decisions should be approached from a national perspective.

Priority themes

•The challenges posed by climate change with particular emphasis on its impacts on the food, fibre and forestry value chains

•Nationwide harmonisation of regulation, standards and enforcement

•Development of appropriate incentive schemes to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour and strategies

•Attraction, recruitment and retention of people, families and business to remote, rural and regional communities

•Broad parity of access to infrastructure and services for remote, rural and regional Australia

Towards acreative Australia

Co-chairs: Cate Blanchett

Julianne Schultz

Peter Garrett

Lead facilitator: Andy Schollum



AmbitionandGoals

• Creativity is central to sustaining and defining the nation, fuelling the imaginations of citizens, nurturing our children and nourishing healthy communities. Indigenous culture is central to this. Creativity is broader than the arts, but the arts are central to creativity

• We will aim to double cultural output by 2020. To achieve this there is a need to implement policies that will produce a sustainable creative sector and support artists, build educational capacity, integrate Indigenous and settler perspectives and recognise the centrality of the arts and creativity to the whole economy.

• This will result in increased personal capacity and confidence of all citizens, including artists, a stronger economy and greater international understanding of Australia as a mature, creative, innovative society.

PriorityThemes

• Link the creative arts and education• Generating new investment models (private and public)• Creativity in the new economy central to innovation• Distribution of creative content via broadcasting and broadband networks, and major

institutions• Indigenous core and centrality of arts

Top Ideas

• Bring art into our schools by introducing ‘practitioners in residence’ via a national mentoring plan funded by philanthropic funds and tax incentives

• Mandate creative, visual and performing arts subjects in national curricula with appropriate reporting requirements for schools. Explore new opportunities for extension and development such as Creativity Summer Schools, pre-service and in-service training for teachers

• Digitise the collections of major national institutions by 2020

• Make creativity a national research priority with funding access to R&D, ARC and similar funding

• Create a National Endowment Fund for the Arts – incorporating public endowment and private philanthropy (including patronage), and provide a wide range of support including loans and grants; a review of philanthropy and tax incentives to support organisations and individual artists and expand the scope of Prescribed Private Funds

• Fund creative endeavours through a 1% creative dividend from all Government Departments for expenditure on arts (including design, performance, installation )

• Develop mechanisms to reward success

• Federal responsibility for public liability obligations for arts organisations

• Creativity is central to Australian life and Indigenous culture is the core to this. To measure, document and leverage the strengths of this culture, to articulate our role and improve protection of indigenous culture, language and heritage through a National Indigenous Cultural Authority.

• A whole of government approach to the arts, culture, design and the creative economy across all sectors, including improved resourcing, linkages and access by using broadband connections and including building connections between sports and arts

• Facilitation of artists in residence across all industries and institutions to engage in story telling, sense making and capacity building

• Develop a national cultural and design strategy and policy

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