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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
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4 September 2023
The path to optimal collaboration between policymakers and researchers is long and winding – but innovative new institutions are helping accelerate the journey.
Peter Shergold
25 August 2023
Australia has joined the race to regulate AI – but we aren’t paying enough attention to the gender-related challenges generated by these systems. Here’s how we can start to fix that.
Ramona Vijeyarasa
16 August 2023
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
15 August 2023
Generative AI is here to stay. But with a nuanced understanding of the technology, sophisticated regulation and a long-term view, we can minimise its harms and capitalise on its transformative potential.
Ian Oppermann
2 August 2023
As Australia embraces a broader definition of national progress, we should use metrics that prioritise the wellbeing of the economy and society together.
Jo-An Occhipinti
13 July 2023
Australia and the world need a new economic and social paradigm that prioritises people and the planet.
Katherine Trebeck
Tobacco, gambling, now alcohol: why Australia needs mandated alcohol warnings
The harms and costs of alcohol to Australia are clear. Government needs to mandate effective messaging around alcohol consumption.
The Policymaker in 2022: our most-read articles
It’s been a big first year for The Policymaker—here are our top five most-read articles for 2022.
A different story: anti-slavery as smart public policy
The NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner explains why it’s in everyone’s interests to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking as a system-level challenge.
Thinking beyond self-regulation for tech companies for children’s online safety
New draft codes from tech companies could pose risks to Australian children. A better approach—led by government—is needed instead.
We need to engage with men and boys to end violence
What is required to translate recent policy progress into practice when it comes to engaging men and boys to prevent violence in our society? Changing the way men relate to themselves, to people in their lives and to deeply embedded norms that put pressure on men to be a certain way are key parts of the solution.
Putting survivors’ rights at the centre of responses to modern slavery
To combat this human rights abuse, we need to understand the scale of the problem, amplify survivors’ voices and work towards a fair compensation system.
Collaboration is the key to fighting modern slavery
The battle against modern slavery is increasingly occupying the mind of investors—collaboration can contribute to its demise.
Beyond roads, rates and rubbish: innovating city governance around the world
Local governments are vital laboratories for policy innovation and experimentation. How can Australia better harness this potential?
Australia’s research funding system is broken—here’s how to fix it
Australian universities contribute to the public good. But we need to be more ambitious about realising their potential. It’s time to remedy and reimagine our research system.
Lessons from a pandemic
Solving our biggest global challenges means putting people and communities at the centre of policymaking.
