A practical guide to contemporary good practice in public policy development in Australia comprising two parts: policymaking checklist and policymaking guidance. This guide is a practical tool – to be used rather than studied – and is particularly aimed at supporting practitioners who are newish to the policymaking process.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led reform is not a supplementary consideration in mental health and suicide prevention, it is foundational. This position paper highlights a pattern of inadequate action and unfulfilled promises, calling for immediate funding and full implementation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led strategies and frameworks, backed by binding accountability mechanisms, to end...

The Australian economy is unusual, in both what it produces and its policy settings. Policymakers cannot borrow blindly from overseas. Researchers need to do their part by providing careful analysis of Australian circumstances. In that vein, this report sketches five unusual features of Australia’s economic structure.

This article contends that the Disability Royal Commission Inquiry into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability is unlikely to reshape Australia’s education policy or address systemic human rights violations affecting children and young people with disability. Using policy analysis, it identifies a shift away from young people’s voices and raises broader concerns...

This outlook assesses how countries can strengthen drought management to adapt to a changing climate. It provides new insights into the rising human, environmental and economic impacts of droughts and offers practical policy solutions to minimise losses, build long-term resilience and support adaptation to a drier future.