The productivity agenda

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The productivity agenda

• Co-chairs Warwick Smith
• Julia Gillard
• Lead facilitator Tony Mackay
• Public submissions 923

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Summary of Stream Discussion

• Ambition
• and
• Goals

• 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
• Well know were there when all Australians
  realise their potential

Priority Themes

• 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 Australias 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 Childrens Centres Integrated
  services for childrens health, development,
  learning and care
• Community Corps Allow community service to
  reduce a persons 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 Australias 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

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Options for the future ofIndigenous Australia

• Co-chairs Jackie Huggins
• Jenny Macklin
• Lead facilitator Lynette Glendinning
• Public submissions 698

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Summary of Stream Discussion

• Ambition
• and
• Goals

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

Priority Themes

• 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

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More Top Ideas

• 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

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Low Cost 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

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The future of theAustralian economy

• Co-chairs David Morgan
• Wayne Swan
• Lead facilitator Adam Lewis
• Public submissions 1079

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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

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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

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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

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A long-term nationalhealth strategy

• Co-chairs Michael Good
• Nicola Roxon
• Lead facilitator Larry Kamener
• Public submissions 1104

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Ambitions and Goals

• 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

• Ambition
• and
• Goals

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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 Australias
  research efforts into commercial and health
  outcomes
• Create a Healthbook web-based personal health
  record (like a Facebook)

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Out-of-the-box ideas

• A Wellness Footprint
• First Aid training for all Australian kids
  delivered by volunteers
• Opt-out system for organ donation
• Health Impact Statements
• Half-an-hour physical activity built into
  sedentary jobs

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Australias future securityand prosperity

• Co-chairs Michael Wesley
• Stephen Smith
• Lead facilitator Siobhan McKenna
• Public submissions 625

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Summary of Stream Discussion

• Ambition
• and
• Goals

• An effective global citizen
• A deeper engagement with Asia and the Pacific
• Making languages and cultures of our region
  familiar to all Australians

Priority Themes

• Develop Australias literacy in our regions
  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

• 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

Top Ideas
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A deeper engagement with the Pacific
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Population, sustainability,climate change, water

• Co-chairs Roger Beale
• Penny Wong
• Lead facilitator Jennifer Westacott
• Public submissions 1335

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Summary of Stream Discussion

• Ambition
• and
• Goals

• 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 worlds 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.

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Priority themes

• 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.

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Top ideas

• 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.

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The future of Australian governance

• Co-chairs John Hartigan
• Maxine McKew
• Lead facilitator Tim Orton
• Public submissions 784

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Summary of Stream Discussion

• Five big ideas
• An Australian Republic
• Collaborative governance revolutionise the way
  government and communities interact
• Modern Australian federation reinvigorate the
  federation
• Bill or Charter of rights for all Australians,
  including Indigenous Australians
• Open and accountable government

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Summary of Stream Discussion

• Three Concrete policy proposals
• Preamble in Constitution to recognise first
  peoples custodianship
• Automatic enrolment (low cost)
• National Cooperation Commission (low cost)

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Strengthening communities,supporting families
andsocial inclusion

• Co-chairs Tim Costello
• Tanya Plibersek
• Lead facilitator Hal Bisset
• Public submissions 1159

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Summary of Stream Discussion

• 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

Ambition and Goals
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Summary of Stream Discussion
Priority Themes

• 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

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Summary of Stream Discussion
Top Ideas

• BIG IDEA
• Human Rights Charter and a National Action Plan
  for Social Inclusion
• A National Development Index that measures
  progress against social inclusion
• BIG POLICY IDEAS
• Early intervention and prevention
• National Coordinating Body for the community
  sector to create a new way of working with
  government at all levels
• COST 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.

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Future directions forrural industries andrural
communities

• Co-chairs Tim Fischer
• Tony Burke
• Lead facilitator Graeme Simsion
• Public submissions 611

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Australia 31 Provinces
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1922 New Staters Map
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THE BIG IDEA

• Nationwide 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.

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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

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Towards acreative Australia

• Co-chairs Cate Blanchett
• Julianne Schultz
• Peter Garrett
• Lead facilitator Andy Schollum
• Public submissions 464

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Summary of Stream Discussion

• 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.

• Ambition
• and
• Goals

• 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

Priority Themes

• 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 RD, 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

Top Ideas
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Session Journey
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