Policy analysis
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Policy report
Policy integration and child well-being: what can countries do to become more effective?
This report takes stock of OECD countries’ recent initiatives to strengthen the integration of child well-being policies. It lays out some of the challenges facing countries as they work to push the child well-being policy agenda forward and discusses what countries can do to become more effective.
Essay
Curating the National Estate: equality, environment and the Whitlam Government
In this publication, E.G. Whitlam Research Fellow, Dr Ben Huf, examines the the lasting impact of the Whitlam Government's urban and environmental policies to provide an alternative narrative to the economic dramas of crisis, reform and neoliberal globalisation that have dominated Australia's policy landscape over the last 40 years.
Report
Measuring what matters: Australia’s first wellbeing framework
This statement is the first iteration of Australia's national wellbeing framework. The framework aims to help the Australian government to better understand what matters most to Australians — to build a healthy, secure, sustainable, cohesive and prosperous Australia for everyone. The framework has been developed through extensive research and consultation to identify the best available...
Journal article
Serving quarreling masters: frontline workers and policy implementation under pressure
How do frontline workers implement policy when it is politically contested and they face strong pressure from politicians and the media? Based on original data and a multi-method analysis of juvenile justice policy and child protection policy in Switzerland, the authors of this article show that political conflict can change policy implementation when frontline workers...
Policy report
COVID-19 and policy for science
This is the first in a series of three reports that explore how science was mobilised in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on policy for science – access to data and information, the role of infrastructures and the interface between academia and industry.