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Policymaking

How can Australian policymakers embrace innovative approaches and engage broader knowledge bases?

    Better budgeting: measuring the real long-term costs and benefits of policy

    2 September 2024

    By measuring outcomes beyond immediate upfront costs, governments can develop a more holistic understanding of the downstream effects of their decisions. Here’s where to start.

    Cressida Gaukroger

  • NSW could be a laboratory of democracy on diverse representation

    Osmond Chiu

  • Building bridges between climate scientists and policymakers

    Angela Kaplish

  • Once upon a bureaucrat: exploring the role of stories in government

    Thea Snow

More articles

  • 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?

    Susan Harris Rimmer, Ed Morgan and Sofija Tanveska

  • No longer lost in translation

    The path to optimal collaboration between policymakers and researchers is long and winding – but innovative new institutions are helping accelerate the journey.

    Peter Shergold

  • How research can enhance policymaking: improving the interface between academia and government

    Breaking down the barriers to collaboration between researchers and policy practitioners takes relationships of trust, innovative knowledge-brokering institutions and better mutual understanding.

    Brian Head