Policy Insights Paper

27 November 2024

This Policy Insights Paper highlights key strategies to expand electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in apartment buildings across NSW. While EV adoption has surged in suburban homes, the report highlights unique challenges for apartment residents and offers practical solutions to improve accessibility in high-density housing.

Policy Insights Paper

10 September 2024

Adopting Industry 4.0 technologies has wide-reaching benefits for NSW’s manufacturing sector, but SMEs often get left behind in their ability to benefit from them. This Policy Insights Paper, authored by Associate Professor Dilupa Nakandala from Western Sydney University, outlines key policy opportunities to enhance the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in NSW manufacturing.

Policy Insights Paper

08 March 2024

This Policy Inisghts Paper, written by Dr Sophie-May Kerr from the University of New South Wales, reveals key challenges that families confront in apartment living. It proposes eight detailed opportunities for reform, including greater government involvement in delivering suitable housing, improved policy and design, stronger regulation and compliance with best-practice design, support for retrofitting existing dwellings, and ensuring local neighbourhoods provide family-friendly amenities and infrastructure.

Policy Insights Paper

08 March 2024

In this JMI Policy Insights Paper, University of Sydney researchers Professor Elizabeth Hill, Professor Rae Cooper AO, Talara Lee and Dr Suneha Seetahul set out five key areas of government policy, operations and investment that can be leveraged to drive gender equality across the labour market in NSW.

Policy Insights Paper

11 December 2023

The report, written by Professor Edward Santow, Sophie Farthing and Lauren Perry of the Human Technology Institute (HTI) at UTS, is the culmination of a major collaboration between HTI and the NSW Government, supported through a JMI Policy Challenge Grant. The report sets out how the Government can use law, governance and training to make its new digital identity system trustworthy.

Policy Insights Paper

30 January 2023

The sustainability impact of government financial activities is of intensifying interest to financial market participants, regulators and communities. This ‘At a Glance’ report considers in brief, and a full accompanying report examines in depth, whether sovereigns should report on and disclose sustainability-related actions and if so, how.