What is AEPF?
The Australian Equitable Prosperity Framework (AEPF) is our core policy coordination framework. The AEPF Portal is the SaaS implementation of that framework, designed to convert evidence, stakeholder feedback, and implementation lessons into versioned policy improvements. It provides one shared place where policy sections are reviewed, decisions are recorded, and approved changes are published across public and organisational governance settings.
Managed service model: AEPF centrally operates subscription billing and communications delivery, so participating organisations are not required to connect their own payment or email infrastructure. For large organisations, customised private instances can also be deployed with organisation-managed email and payment providers.
Current governance capabilities for proposers and committees
How AEPF can make Australia stronger in trillion-dollar terms
AEPF is built to improve national productivity and reduce avoidable economic drag by improving policy quality, delivery timing, and institutional coordination. Over a long horizon, even modest gains compound into very large national value.
| Value channel | What improves | Illustrative long-run economic effect |
|---|---|---|
| Productivity uplift | Clearer policy design and execution in core sectors | Large GDP gains from higher output per worker and fewer bottlenecks |
| Human capital and participation | Better alignment across education, institutions, and labor policy | Higher workforce participation and skills utilization over time |
| Prevention and system efficiency | Earlier issue detection through feedback governance | Reduced fiscal leakage, service duplication, and correction costs |
| Trust and policy continuity | Transparent decisions and versioned updates | More stable investment climate and stronger long-term planning confidence |
What users are expected to do in this platform
- Read policy sections assigned to their approved audience role.
- Submit clear, evidence-backed feedback at section level.
- Use constructive, implementation-focused language in submissions.
- For committee/admin users: classify decisions (under review, accepted, rejected, implemented).
- For governance workflows: apply rejection notes that meet the active admin-defined quality thresholds.
- For framework owners: publish versions after approved changes are applied.
- Maintain accountability by recording decision notes, especially for rejections and implementation claims.
Who should use AEPF
AEPF is useful for MPs, MLAs, councillors, board members, policy units, committee teams, agencies, enterprises, associations, societies, strata bodies, think tanks, universities, and public-interest participants who need a disciplined way to propose, review, and implement policy or organisational changes.