policymaking

The skills that enable somebody to gain preselection, and then sufficient community support for election, are not the same skills required to formulate public policy.

Australia’s quest for hydrogen superpower status is about to bomb out. We need a new green energy statecraft.

The hunt is well and truly underway for NSW’s first rental commissioner amidst a rental crisis and rising interest rates.

Bridge institutions like AP4D can use imaginative narratives to help connect the world of research with the world of policy.

Statistical significance is a highly technical, nuanced concept, and policymakers covering research should have a basic understanding of what it represents.

Self-professed ‘stats nerd’ Andrew Leigh has told public servants at the ABS their independent work is invaluable.

A new academic briefing suggests Facebook used a deliberate strategy to weaken Australia’s media bargaining code.

Pandemics, natural disasters, rising inequality and threats to liberal democratic traditions are just some of the challenges that shape the operating context of contemporary public managers. “Today’s public manager has to navigate an increasingly complex and uncertain environment, doing more with less and working across sectors,” says Former Victorian Public Service senior executive and Melbourne […]

Every citizen is an individual, with their own unique circumstances and needs. Yet for far too long governments have viewed citizens through the one-dimensional lens of the data available at a particular touchpoint. Whereas in reality, data is captured across a multitude of systems, each providing a small fragment of the information needed to best […]

The behavioural economics unit of the federal government has launched a free online course for public sector workers to help them make better policy decisions.