This report analyses data collected by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s COVID-19 Pulse Survey during 2021 and 2022. The data captures changes in vaccine hesitancy across different demographics, looking at the role of gender, age, socioeconomic status, and the stringency of a jurisdiction’s pandemic measures, and examines different kinds of vaccine hesitancy.

While Artificial Intelligence tools, particularly large language models (LLMs), can be beneficial for exploring complex subjects, enhancing understanding and facilitating conversations across many knowledge domains and stakeholders, regulators need to be careful when using AI for administrative decisions with legal obligations and consequences.

In the context of other communities of practice at the International Association on Regulation and Governance conference, this article reflects on the role and achievements of the National Regulators Community of Practice at ANZSOG since its inception in 2020.

Whether it’s overseeing innovation, governing risks, or getting ahead of emerging threats – the issues we face are increasingly borderless and rapidly evolving. This article discusses the concept of regulatory diplomacy as a means to solve problems requiring a global approach.

In this article the author considers how we might advance policy design to regulate the use of robots and asks what research techniques can be used to document public reactions to, and interactions with, robots in public spaces in Australia.