As the population and its needs change, the care and support economy is coming under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality services at a sustainable cost. This report proposes reforms to strengthen connections across sectors and reduce siloed decision-making, improving care quality, making services more efficient and boosting productivity.

Reducing emissions from greenhouse gases is an important national priority. Minimising the cost of meeting Australia’s emissions targets will free resources for other uses. And speeding up approvals for new energy infrastructure will support decarbonisation across the economy. This final inquiry report presents recommendations focused on three key policy reform areas.

Across five inquiries, 47 reform recommendations were made to support productivity growth across the economy. Taken together, these recommendations highlight 3 key principles for productivity growth. This paper sets out those reform principles and provides an overview of recommendations in the five productivity inquiries to meet those challenges.

This report supports the National Competition Policy process by analysing the economic effects of two policy reforms: occupational licensing reform to promote labour mobility and adopting international and overseas standards. These two reforms would promote competition and increase Australia’s GDP.

This paper argues Australia needs to update our regulatory approach and change our inefficient company tax system, to a system that better encourages investment and productivity growth. This final inquiry report presents recommendations focused on two key policy reform areas: corporate tax reform to spur business investment and regulating to promote business dynamism.