The second progress report on the Regionalisation Ambition framework shows mixed results across the plan's 20 targets. The report highlights key achievements for creating a more prosperous, productive and inclusive regional Australia, how each target is tracking against capital cities, and high-level policy changes that impact the framework.

One-third of Australian occupations face worker shortages. These shortages are increasingly concentrated in jobs driven by global megatrends such as digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), an ageing workforce and the energy transition. This report provides recommendations for both employers and government to help fill these gaps and confront these challenges and opportunities by ramping up...

This report addresses the growing challenge of Australia’s lagging productivity, and the need to compete harder for business investment which can help improve it. The report identifies where the most effort is needed to shift the momentum of productivity towards growth including reducing red tape, tax reform, and increased investment in research and development.

This report provides a detailed look at Australia’s workforce landscape, with a focus on future skills, opportunities and challenges. It finds over 90% of employment growth in the next 10 years will be in jobs that need post-secondary qualifications, however, only half of that growth will be in university-qualified roles. It emphasises the need for...

The report identifies 37 emerging roles in the Australian labour market across four areas: net zero, health care and medical, data and technologies and science and engineering. The report provides a detailed analysis of the skills required for these roles and their projected growth in the coming years.