About National Dividend

Australia is the most resource rich nation on earth with some of the most short-sighted government policy and direction you can imagine.

Our ‘wealth’ is built off mining, growing or extracting raw resources, ship it overseas for someone else to process, manufacture, and sell back to us at a premium. We do it with minerals. We do it with agriculture. We do it with energy. We even do it with education.

National Dividend is a research and commentary project investigating Australia's unrealised economic potential. From energy policy and fuel security to critical minerals, industrial strategy, and the infrastructure decisions that will shape the next century.

It’s quite simple really: What if we extracted the maximum possible value from everything Australia has in abundance, revived domestic processes and thought long term.

What would Australia look like then?