Recent Submissions
Across the early months of 2021, CPD has made a number of important submissions to various government inquiries. Read on for more details below. In late February, CPD made a submission to the National...
Zoe Whitton on a gas-fired future
Broadcast on Monday 12 April 2021 CPD Board Member Zoe Whitton appeared on the ABC’s Four Corners to discuss what’s behind the Federal Government’s push for a gas-fired future. Watch the full episode below:
Sam Mostyn in the Media
March was a busy month in the media for our Deputy Chair Sam Mostyn. Follow the links below to watch (and listen to) all of her appearances. Broadcast on 08 March 2021. Sam...
Travers McLeod: The public sector’s pandemic: Part 1
Recorded on 03 April 2021. In the first of a four-part series, CPD CEO Travers McLeod spoke to Geraldine Doogue on ABC Saturday Extra about public sector capability, and the strengths, weaknesses and challenges...
Toby Phillips: Global climate action will reshape Australia’s trade
Published in The Australian Financial Review, 09 February 2021 Last week at the National Press Club, the Prime Minister said Australia would “reach net zero emissions as soon as possible, and preferably by 2050”. Those final...
Discussion Paper: Chasing the Pack
In a paper released today by the Centre for Policy Development (CPD), Program Director Toby Phillips analyses how Australia’s immediate economic and diplomatic future could be defined by global activity around climate diplomacy, green...
Virtual Roundtable on Mainstreaming Child Protection in the Context of International Migration
In December 2020 the Secretariat of the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration (ADFM) was pleased to co-convene a virtual regional roundtable with the International Detention Coalition (IDC), focused on mainstreaming child protection in the...
Jen Jackson: Early childhood educators are leaving in droves. Here are 3 ways to keep them, and attract more
Published in The Conversation on 15 January 2021 Childcare centres across Australia are suffering staff shortages, which have been exacerbated by the COVID crisis. Many childcare workers across Australia left when parents started pulling their...
Third Climate & Recovery Initiative stakeholder roundtable
On 23 November, CPD and our partners convened the third stakeholder roundtable in our Climate & Recovery Initiative (CRI). The CRI was established in May 2020 to drive a stronger alignment between COVID-19 recovery...
Travers McLeod, Frances Kitt & Krystal Lockwood: Prison stems from disadvantage and entrenches it
Published in The Australian on 10 December 2020 The story of Richmond’s two-time premiership player Marlion Pickett reads like a fairytale. He went from youthful crime and prison time in Western Australia to playing...