Australian higher education is internationally competitive, yet domestically strained and politically contested. This paper examines how Australians perceive their universities and how those perceptions connect to democratic resilience – the capacity of a democratic system to sustain informed participation, institutional trust, social inclusion and collective learning. Three findings are especially salient for democratic resilience.

National governments are struggling to be strategic in the late 2020s. This briefing note argues that this is not mainly a leadership flaw; it is an institutional design problem in the centre of government. The paper looks at current and past examples of strategy teams in governments and proposes designs for future ones.

This paper sets out a progressive alternative to DOGE, the US Department of Government Efficiency. It makes the case for a department organised around intelligence, linking multiple tiers of government, and a movement. The paper suggests what is to be done, how it should be done, what principles should be used, and what structures work...

In this publication, the concept of “Generative Shared Intelligence” (GSI) offers a model for addressing multidimensional problems in governance, emphasising the need for more flexible and collaborative structures designed for the sole purpose of sharing intelligence.

Mission-focused policy-making is now dominating the pre-election period in the United Kingdom. In this essay, the authors propose a series of reforms designed to change government, grow its capacities and deliver its missions.