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22 April 2024
With Australia’s Online Safety Act under review, regulators should take heed of the UK’s experience in imposing duties of care on digital platforms.
Rys Farthing
Lorna Woods
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20 March 2024
The transition from school to university is a pivotal moment in the lives of young people – how can we better support their choices for improved individual and social outcomes?
Maxwell Yong
13 March 2024
Australians have proven themselves resilient in the face of housing pressures – but structural reform to boost supply and dampen rising costs is desperately needed.
Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi
6 March 2024
What role can stories play in supporting people-centred policymaking and place-based reform?
Thea Snow
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6 March 2024
What role can stories play in supporting people-centred policymaking and place-based reform?
Thea Snow
27 February 2024
While the political and policy focus has rightly been on regulating artificial intelligence, we also need to plan now to harness AI’s power as a policymaking tool – especially, its capacity to model outcomes in complex systems.
José-Miguel Bello y Villarino
7 February 2024
Simple quantitative metrics don’t do justice to the breadth and complexity of human experience. Researchers and policymakers can benefit from frameworks implementing a nested relationship between data and lived experiences, metrics and relational processes.
Juliet Bennett
2 February 2024
As governments look to reform our social services systems, they must tap into the transformative power of relationships.
Cliff Eberly and Wenqian Gan
22 January 2024
Australia deserves a public service that embodies its multiculturalism – diversity targets are a proven way to get there.
Jin Lim
18 January 2024
With poor mental health outcomes for young people linked to a lack of agency to shape society, how can we better reflect the interests of youth in policy and politics?
Harry Grant
‘Round and ‘round we go! Let’s get off the carousel and build a social services system that works for people
As governments look to reform our social services systems, they must tap into the transformative power of relationships.
Our public service needs cultural diversity targets
Australia deserves a public service that embodies its multiculturalism – diversity targets are a proven way to get there.
Empowering the future: breaking the cycle of youth mental ill health through political agency
With poor mental health outcomes for young people linked to a lack of agency to shape society, how can we better reflect the interests of youth in policy and politics?
A vision splendid: unlocking patient capital through long-term asset funds
Australia’s superannuation funds can anchor long-term investments that are essential for the development of new industries, especially manufacturing, and the transition to a low emissions economy.
The Policymaker in 2023: our most-read articles
In its second year, The Policymaker has grown to become a leading platform for public policy analysis and ideas informed by research expertise and experience – here are our five most popular articles in 2023.
I never said “thank you” to my calculator: reflections from the outgoing NSW Chief Data Scientist
As AI becomes invisibly embedded in everyday life, we must remain laser focused on controlling and regulating how it uses data and the data it generates.
Harnessing research and innovation to secure NSW’s future
NSW’s minister for industry and innovation outlines his vision for the NSW economy with research and evidence driving the government’s industry, decarbonisation and innovation policies.
Children in crisis need real relationships: the case for a child connection system
A child protection system preoccupied with risk aversion is impeding the emotional growth of children. We need a new model based on relational care and reciprocity to break the cycle.
Developing community involvement in emergency management policy
How can the law and policy governing disaster responses better facilitate shared decision-making between communities and government?
Hard truths about researchers as honest brokers
What are the challenges to academic influence in public policy? And what practical steps are available to bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers?
