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17 January 2025
Prevention, early intervention, harm reduction and education should be prioritised in the NSW Government’s new Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Strategy.
Jack Wilson, Kate Ross and Steph Kershaw
18 December 2024
We published more articles and authors than ever before in 2024, as The Policymaker continued to grow as a leading platform for public policy analysis and ideas. Here are our five most popular articles from this year.
Hugh Piper
17 December 2024
Greater access to EV charging in densely populated areas can encourage sustainability. Here’s four expert recommendations to boost EV charging installation in apartment buildings.
Tom Longden and Gina Gatarin
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15 August 2024
Recent changes to Australia’s Paid Parental Leave scheme are a positive development. However, government can do more to value care work as a social good, including by encouraging fathers to take paternity leave and integrating parental leave with childcare and education policies.
Sarah Duffy & Emilee Gilbert
12 August 2024
Regional inequality is driving an increased demand for greater engagement between researchers and policymakers in the UK. What lessons can Australia’s knowledge brokering community learn from its British counterpart?
Liz Shutt
5 August 2024
For Australia to better empower low-income households, we should focus on affordability. Here’s how governments and the private sector can work together to achieve this.
Daniel Tracey
Mixed messages: policy considerations for the growing use of illicit substances as therapeutic agents in Australia
Policymakers should draw on Australian and international lessons from prescribing cannabis to implement effective regulation for the medicinal use of MDMA and psilocybin.
Place-based approaches can help industrial regions decarbonise quicker – here’s how
Decarbonising Australia’s industrial sector will be essential for Australia to reach net zero. The Australian Government can set the right policy signals with ambitious long-term goals to diversify economically in new clean industries and coordinate investment in specific locations.
The right settings for migrant settlement in regional Australia
Better coordination across all three levels of government and strategic investments in migrant services can boost migrant settlement in regional areas – helping Australians new and old.
Prioritising the rights and best interests of children in law reform
Queensland’s new bail laws will infringe on the human rights of children. A better approach that understands the needs of vulnerable children is needed.
Upstream and downstream strategies to close the gap in criminal justice
It’s 32 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. While progress has been slow – and in some cases retrograde – there is a path to better outcomes for Indigenous people if they are empowered to lead policy responses.
Five research and policy questions to improve societal health and break cycles of disadvantage
How to disrupt policy and enable collective intelligence – for people and place – by asking the questions that matter most.
Collective voices and coordinated action: how multi-agency collaborations can help tackle modern slavery
Modern slavery is a wicked problem for Australia—but effective coordination of the actors involved in prevention, law enforcement and victim protection can enable a more effective response.
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.
