Australia’s Productivity Challenge: How Digital Skills and AI Can Boost the Economy
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 24 Nov 2025
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- 2
- Australian
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- 26 Nov 2025, 11:15 am
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Australia must take a few big moves. That includes lifting basic digital literacy in schools so every student meets the standard, and a national digital and AI skills compact.
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The article explores how enhancing digital literacy and AI capabilities can revitalize Australia's economy. It argues for improving basic digital literacy in schools and establishing a national digital and AI skills compact as key measures. While the piece underscores the broader economic benefits of digital skills, its relevance to AI safety, particularly regarding existential or catastrophic risks, is limited. Instead, the focus is on economic productivity rather than governance frameworks or risk reduction strategies associated with advanced AI capabilities.
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PolicyOpinionPrint articleNov 26, 2025 – 5.00amSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginProductivity isn’t something most people often talk about, but they feel its absence when things take longer and cost more. And in Australia, the impact has been real.Since 2016,Australia’s productivity slowdownhas stemmed from long-term challenges like weak wage growth, declining business innovation, and mounting infrastructure demands.Loading...Robin Khudais founder and chief executive of AirTrunk.SaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreOpinionDigital transformationData centresAIProductivityFetching latest articles5 hidden-gem jewellers that should be on your radarAlice Jeffery, Mark. C O'Flaherty and Lauren SamsMax Allen’s top 20 drinks of the year (from $25 to $500)How Pandora became the world’s No.1 jewellery businessChristine Holgate on how to survive losing your jobPatrick DurkinPush to scrap two strikes rule rejected by architectCareer advice that actually works, from a $2.5b company CEOFor $30k a year, you can be part of the members’ club boomBrook TurnerNo one needs these gadgets – which makes them the perfect giftsAustralia’s newest viral sport is this CEO’s go-to stress busterYoung property entrepreneur gets set in green concrete start-upSarah PettyInside Australia’s most expensive country estateThe moment that led to a $750m coal fortune and a Ferrari obsession