Understanding how to identify and manage conflicts of interest is essential to maintaining public trust and upholding the integrity of the Australian Public Service. This framework provides clear guidance for agencies to develop or improve their conflict of interest policies. It outlines three levels of practice, so agencies can tailor their settings based on risks...

Australia’s immunisation landscape is rapidly shifting. This position statement reaffirms immunisation as the most effective public health intervention and calls for renewed efforts to rebuild trust, improve access and boost vaccination rates across all communities. It outlines barriers to implementation and highlights the urgent need for new strategies to boost immunisation rates.

High-level, goal-focused engagement can be a powerful tool to rebuild trust in democracy – but, if poorly understood or misused, it risks becoming performative and politically driven. Providing sector-wide research across engagement practice and policy, this report identifies five major challenges as impacting the role of strategic engagement in improving trust in democracy and democratic...

Democratic erosion is the incremental and multifaceted deterioration in the freedoms, guarantees and processes vital to the functioning of democracy. This interactive tool sets out a framework showing how different drivers of erosion interact, reinforce one another and create feedback loops that accelerate decline. It identifies five reinforcing loops of democratic erosion.

Three years after generative artificial intelligence (AI) threatened to become a major disruptor to the journalism industry, this report finds it remains neither its saviour nor its downfall. The report examines key global developments in generative AI, its ongoing impact on public interest journalism, and the views of Australian newsrooms towards using it.