Building Australia’s long-term prosperity

7 August 2025

This Forum will explore practical proposals to build Australia’s long-term prosperity, in the context of the federal government’s renewed focus on productivity and economic reform—highlighted by the Treasurer’s forthcoming Productivity Roundtable later in August.

  • Professor Janine Dixon, Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University, “Generative AI and the labour market”
  • Associate Professor Jason Nassios, Senior Researcher, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University, “The effectiveness of investment allowances”
  • Dr James Lennox, Senior Researcher, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University, “Planning delays and their economic cost”
  • Professor James Giesecke and Associate Professor Robert Waschik, Senior Researchers, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University, “Trade opportunities in a shifting global landscape”