We thank everyone who has contributed to this study and welcome your input to this interim report.
Read the report and share your feedback: www.pc.gov.au/inquiries-an...
Call for comments and submissions closes 5 May 2026
🛣️ The largest potential productivity benefits will arise from reforms that increase access to Australia’s road network for high productivity vehicles. Our early modelling suggests that access reforms could raise Australian GDP by between $950 million and $4.0 billion, with low impacts on inflation.
Our interim report finds that road access for high productivity & heavy #ZeroEmissions vehicles – supported by reforms like automated access approvals, clearer planning rules for charging infrastructure, updated curfew & licensing settings – could boost productivity & improve emissions outcomes.
Out now | Heavy vehicle transport plays an important role in the Australian economy, but productivity growth in the road freight sector has stalled for over a decade 🚚
Gov asked us to analyse & model the impacts of a heavy vehicle productivity reform package under the National Competition Policy.
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We are planning on holding public hearings, online via MS Teams, in the w/of 11-15 May 2026 for the PC's inquiry into fabricated structural safeguards. Please register to appear as a witness or to observe: https://bit.ly/3Os4Wjs
Registrations close on Fri 17 April
Apply now | Chair Danielle Wood invites you to explore how the PC is a great place to start your #career in thinking about Australia's economic, social and environmental challenges and opportunities: https://bit.ly/4dt0afN
More on PC 2027 Graduate Program: https://bit.ly/40fw6fE
#Graduate
Explore the full report here:
👉 www.pc.gov.au/inquiries-an...
#QualityCare #CareEconomy #AgedCare #NDIS #HealthReform #FutureofCare #WorldHealthDay
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🩺Take a new approach to investment in prevention and early intervention, through a National Prevention and Early Intervention Framework.
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🤝Better embed and enable collaborative commissioning. Reforms to achieve better collaboration among services in a local area can, according to our estimates, reduce preventable hospitalisations by 5% and emergency department presentations by 4%, equivalent to $600 million per year.
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🏥Better align quality and safety regulations across the sector. Done right, this could save workers and providers about $1.8 billion over 10 years once fully implemented, equivalent to over 21 million care hours.
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Our final report proposes reforms in three areas that strengthen connections across sectors and reduce siloed decision-making, improving care quality, making services more efficient and boosting productivity:
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As Australia's population gets older, and lifestyles and circumstances change, care services are likely to come under more pressure.
We owe it to our future generations to set up the care sector to deliver high-quality services at a sustainable cost.
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Closing this week | Have you had your say on Australia's #regional air network? ✈️
We are looking into how governments can support a competitive, reliable and affordable regional #flight network.
Share your thoughts & experiences in our survey: https://bit.ly/4tQvTxa
#Airfares #travel
🦺 What are safeguard measures and when can they be applied?
🏭Have imports of the relevant #steel products increased?
🩹 Has Australia's steel #industry suffered serious injury, or face the threat of serious injury?
More about the inquiry and how you can contribute: https://bit.ly/4tRZVQZ
#AusEcon
✈️ How does the cost and quality of air travel affect your regional community?
The PC is looking into what influences regional airfares, and how this affects people and businesses in regional communities.
Share your experiences in this short survey: https://bit.ly/4tQvTxa
#Flights #Regional #Travel
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The 2027 PC Graduate Program is open for applications: https://bit.ly/40fw6fE
Looking to kickstart your career finding solutions for Australia's pressing social, economic and environmental challenges? Apply now to join the team in 2027.
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#Graduate #Careers
💧Read our call for submissions and make a submission or brief comment on our website: www.pc.gov.au/inquiries-an...
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#Water #WaterServices #WaterPolicy #WaterIndustry
We have also been asked to assess and recommend water policy and regulations that support a secure, resilient and sustainable water services industry.
We want to hear from stakeholders and have outlined questions under themes to better understand progress and priorities. (2/3)
Share your thoughts | The PC is assessing progress against the 2004 National Water Initiative (NWI), and working on recommendations on actions that parties to the NWI might take to better achieve the objectives and outcomes of the NWI. (1/3)
New inquiry | The Government has asked us to look into how govts and #water services can improve the security, resilience & sustainability of water services, and support productivity & affordability: https://bit.ly/4bCKW6I
Subscribe to get email alerts on how you can contribute.
Out now | Labour productivity was flat in the December quarter and increased by 1.0% over the year to December 2025. While this is better news than this time last year, this year’s growth means we are back where we were two years ago.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4maWTnP
Hear about measuring healthcare productivity in this keynote interview with @pc.gov.au's Catherine de Fontenay at the 2025 UNSW-ESCoE Conference: tinyurl.com/47vs54ze
@kevinfoxecon.bsky.social
Do you rely on air travel to and from regional Tasmania? ✈️
Have feedback on cost or reliability of flights? 💸
The PC is investigating regional airfares — and we want to hear from you.
Join us at community drop-in sessions next week and share your thoughts and feedback. No registrations required.
When travelling for work in regional Australia, what matters most to you?
💵 Price
🍱 Service offering (routes, frequency of flights, flight times etc.)
🛬 Reliability of service
💺Comfort
All of the above?
Tell us in this 5–10-minute survey: https://bit.ly/4tQvTxa
#Flights #Regional #Travel
In our submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee's inquiry into arts and cultural philanthropy, we explain how governments can better support donations to the arts: https://bit.ly/4rBADEA
#Arts #Donors #Philanthropy
Our submission to the Select Committee on Productivity in Australia draws on recent work to provide advice on #productivity performance: https://bit.ly/4bQ42WM
We consider industry-level performance; regulation; tax; freight supply chains; competition policy, and labour markets.
Out now | The March 2026 update to the #ClosingTheGap information repository adds new year of data for 6 socio-economic targets and 20 supporting indicators: https://bit.ly/4lzPzl7
4 targets = on track
5 = improvement but not on track
2 = no change from baseline
4 = worsening
2026 Richard Snape lecture will be delivered by Prof David Vines, Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, at Oxford University.
Find out more and register to join online: https://bit.ly/4lGbt6s
#Event #Economics #Lecture #AusEcon #Webinar
2 socio-economic supporting indicators to be reported on for the 1st time
3 socio-economic outcome areas with a new historical and ongoing context summary
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Coming next week | The 2026 #ClosingTheGap dashboard updates include:
6 socio economic targets with a new year of data since July 2025 update
20 socio-economic supporting indicators with a new year of data since July 2025