UnitingCare Australia welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Senate Select Committee’s Discussion Paper on Productivity in Australia. Our submission consolidates positions already put to the Government through UnitingCare Australia’s 2025 engagement with the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Delivering Quality Care More Efficiently, our response to the Interim Report of the same Inquiry, and our contributions to the Treasurer’s Economic Reform Roundtable and associated consultations. Consistent with those submissions, we emphasise a human‑centred productivity approach that understands productivity not as an end in itself, but a means to improving quality of life.

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About UnitingCare Australia

UnitingCare Australia is the national body for the Uniting Church’s community services network and an agency of the Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia.

We give voice to the Uniting Church’s commitment to social justice through advocacy and by strengthening community service provision.

We are the largest network of social service providers in Australia, with over 55,000 staff and 17,000 volunteers, delivering 5.8 million interactions annually across 1,600 service locations in urban, rural and remote communities.

We focus on articulating and meeting the needs of people at all stages of life, and particularly those most vulnerable.