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Effective city-level planning is essential for Australia to meet its Net Zero targets. Australia can learn from leading global cities to improve policy coordination, employ targeted finance and harness research to develop more effective local climate policy.
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Families and communities hold the solutions in child protection – we just need to use them
Harnessing the skills and insight of people with experience in the system is the key to sustainable and transformative reform of our child protection systems.
NSW could be a laboratory of democracy on diverse representation
Appointing some ministers from outside parliament could help boost representation and improve policymaking.
Building bridges between climate scientists and policymakers
What does successful knowledge brokering between climate scientists and government look like?
Eight industrial policy hacks: bolstering domestic capability under constrained fiscal conditions
Australia needs a more deliberate approach to industrial policy to achieve a productivity dividend within tight budget constraints – here’s how.
How high schools can best prepare students for the real world
Financial literacy, workplace skills, health consciousness and independent living should all be core lessons for Australian high schoolers.
The dangers of pluralisation: A singular duty of care in the Online Safety Act
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.
Getting the tertiary transition right: six things high schools can do to set students up for success at university
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?
Australia’s housing crisis: bolstering community and individual resilience with meaningful structural reform
Australians have proven themselves resilient in the face of housing pressures – but structural reform to boost supply and dampen rising costs is desperately needed.
Once upon a bureaucrat: exploring the role of stories in government
What role can stories play in supporting people-centred policymaking and place-based reform?
Digital (t)winning: the potential for AI as a public policy design tool
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.
