The upcoming Australian Government's Economic Reform Roundtable offers policymakers a unique opportunity to take stock and wholistically consider the significant economic issues facing Australia. To help inform discussions at the Roundtable, this policy report highlights relevant e61 research and potential policy directions aimed at achieving the Roundtable’s stated goals of improving resilience, productivity and fiscal sustainability.

It provide policymakers with recommendations in four key areas:

1. Fostering a more dynamic labour market through removing unnecessary impediments to labour mobility, and focusing on protecting workers not jobs.
2. Better managing the trade-offs involved in the growing formal care sector by targeting assistance to those most in need and removing impediments to productivity gains in the sector.
3. Improving the efficiency and resilience of the Australian tax system through broadening the base of income and expenditure taxes.
4. Enhancing the quality and efficiency of government services through rethinking the state-federal relationship and encouraging devolution of service delivery to states where better placed.