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Danielle Wood

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
265 total appearances

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ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

What we do have is, you know, we track when policies that we've recommended have been picked up.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

And, you know, I think some of those on the trade front and others have been picked up, some from our more recent policies.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

productivity reports that we prepared for the government at the end of last year have been picked up as well.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

So it certainly would not be the entirety of those long lists, but some of the things that we have advocated for over the decade have helped shape the reform agenda.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

I mean, so I kind of group them.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

There's sort of 15 broad areas within some of those.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

You have multiple recommendations.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

So we have seen some movement on those, Alan.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

So there was one around speeding up and simplifying federal environmental approvals and the government legislation on those.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

That through the parliament at the end of last year, that's actually really critically important.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

It goes to our capacity to deliver housing, to deliver clean energy, to deliver critical minerals projects.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

So we think that's been a really substantive and important reform.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

We had what I think was a really important recommendation on artificial intelligence and the regulatory environment for it.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

What we said is, you know, there are a lot of big growth opportunities with AI.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

Of course, there are risks, but a lot of those are sort of supercharged versions of existing risks.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

So addressing gaps in existing legislative and regulatory frameworks rather than coming in with a new approach.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

overarching AI Act which had the potential to be duplicative and very burdensome and the government's essentially signalled that that's the approach they're going to take so you know that's another one I think and then some of the recommendations from the care report on local commissioning federal state governments working together to solve local problems has featured in the health reform agreement that's just happened so you know I would say

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

I've certainly seen substantial progress in three of the 15 broad areas.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

We only handed the final reports to government at the end of last year.

ABC Business Daily
Danielle Wood on Australia's productivity problem

Yeah, look, I think sometimes we just have short attention spans and we move on after things have happened too quickly.