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Building research capacity for a disaster-resilient Australia
Paul Barnes | October 14, 2020Australia needs a networked consortium of teaching universities and regional research centres helping our emergency and disaster management services face the myriad dangers we face.
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Mobilising Victoria’s emergency workforce
Jonathan Liberman | October 10, 2020Victoria’s COVID-19 Omnibus Bill highlights the central challenge of mobilising and managing the right workforce needed during a public health emergency.
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Government funding won’t stop manufacturing’s decline
David Uren | October 8, 2020The federal government sees the revival of Australian manufacturing as a matter of economic sovereignty, yet the annual national accounts highlight the enormity of the task it confronts.
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Refreshing defence innovation
Thom Dixon | September 27, 2020Unless Australia scales up its own DARPA-like investment vehicles and introduces well-endowed talent-retention schemes, or other policy initiatives unique to the Australian context, our defence innovation enterprise is headed for rocky times.
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Supply chain cooperation comes to the fore
Ken Heydon | September 25, 2020Reports are circulating of a trilateral exploration by Japan, India and Australia of a ‘Supply Chain Resilience Initiative’ to secure supply chains and reduce dependence on China.
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Australia’s drug dependence: A multi-level response to supply-chain insecurity
Iain D. Johnson | September 16, 2020Supply problems at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic sparked concerns about fragile pharmaceutical supply chains. Australia must consider how it can drive forward its domestic industry while also being a strong voice for regional cooperation.
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A world in disorder
Open Forum | September 16, 2020It would take 500 years to spend as much on preparedness as the world is currently losing due to COVID-19. The world cannot afford this cycle of panic and neglect.
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Covid-19 shows the need to accelerate national policymaking
Gillian Savage | September 9, 2020If Covid-19 has taught us anything, it’s that Australia needs to link long-term planning with emergency and operational coordination.
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Our food system needs an overhaul
Open Forum | September 8, 2020The Australian government needs a strategic policy approach to food, according to a new report by the Commission for the Human Future.
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Embracing business vulnerabilities
Mariano Heyden | August 25, 2020With COVID-19 exposing the fragility of our companies, the best-placed will be those with CEOs who understand the shortcomings, and the measures for managing them.
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How to reduce offshore supply chain risks and create onshore manufacturing opportunities
Ebony Stansfield | August 19, 2020There are a number of definitive ways Australia can improve innovation and onshore manufacturing while leveraging offshore capability and reducing supply chain risks.
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Managing food security
Open Forum | August 18, 2020A model for successfully managing food safety incidents has been developed by a diverse team of academics and researchers from Flinders University’s College of Medicine and Public Health, and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.