The variety of policy problems, solutions and actors in the housing policy space makes organising housing policy challenging. This research explores how changes to government administrative structures and processes affect housing policy in Australia. It outlines what can be done to reduce some of the negative impacts of these changes.

This article assesses the implications of the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) narrative for policy professionals and in particular, what aspects of coordination and development work should change. The authors argue that by harnessing new technologies and integrating them with long-term planning tools, policymakers can help governments anticipate and reduce the consequences of crisis...

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.

The objective of this paper is to determine the true nature of a series of Community Pharmacy Agreements between the Federal Government and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and whether these agreements serve the public’s access and use of medicines. The paper concludes that the Agreements can be characterised predominantly as industry policy benefiting pharmacy...

Whether deployed within the private or public sectors, regulatory technology (RegTech) holds significant potential to improve regulatory compliance, reduce compliance costs, and improve the speed and accuracy with which known harms can be addressed and emerging risks can be identified.