Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has begun promoting the outcomes of his 2020 summit.
The summit, which ended on Sunday afternoon, brought together 1,002 delegates to brainstorm ideas that will help Australia answer the challenges likely to confront the nation by 2020.
A fresh referendum on the possibility of Australia becoming a republic was one of the central ideas to come from the two-day summit.
Mr Rudd said "there was a clear resolve" on the republic issue but he did not directly endorse Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus' call for Australia to sever its constitutional ties with Britain.
On other proposals, including those surrounding indigenous health, Mr Rudd said if he could "crack the whip" the government would provide a response to summit suggestions before the end of the year.
"Some of these proposals are very complex so I'd much rather we did it thoroughly and give people the courtesy of giving them a full answer as to what we can say yes to, what we can't say yes to and the reasons why," he told Network Ten.
Later, speaking to the Nine Network, Mr Rudd said he was particularly interested in the call for a "seamless national market" to cut through state-based red tape.
He also voiced interest in a community volunteer network which could potentially offer university graduates the chance to bring down their HECS debt through volunteer work.
"I think those are two (ideas) which have struck my attention so far," he said.
Mr Rudd rejected the suggestion the summit had failed to create any new ideas.
"I think the goal, for example, of working towards a bionic eye by 2020 is out there, we have done a bionic ear through Cochlear, we've got great science and technology here, let's set our sights on that and see whether we can reach that."
