This guide helps policy-makers reflect on how policy and regulation can affect people, businesses and community, as well as its broader economic and competition impacts.

The Australian government’s rigorous approach to policy-making seeks to ensure that the costs and benefits of new policy are understood from all angles.

The government’s Impact Analysis framework will ensure decision-makers are provided with the necessary evidence base to make the decisions that will best support a stronger economy and guarantee the essentials Australians rely on to prosper.

It is an expectation of the government that policy-makers aim to prepare an Impact Analysis (IA) that is assessed as exemplary.

The new Australian government guide to Policy Impact Analysis comes into effect from 1 March 2023.