This research explores what would make it easier for business individuals and small businesses to deal with government agencies and use online channels instead of traditional channels in their interactions with government.

Community engagement processes are an important part of strategic land use planning practice in order to facilitate good governance. This paper draws upon the applied behavioural sciences and examines a number of ways they could be used to improve the efficacy of community engagement practice focusing on the Victorian strategic land use planning context.

Cycling is seen today as a panacea for many problems facing cities in Australia and the rest of the developed world, including issues of increasing traffic congestion, increasing rates of obesity and volatile oil prices. As a result, governments are increasingly looking to encourage the growth of cycling as a mode of transport used as...

It’s the love child of economics and psychology – behavioural economics. It tries to explain people’s rational, or better irrational, behaviour when it comes to financial decision-making and consumption patterns. On Big Ideas, two experts outline the main lessons of behavioural economics and discuss the ways that it has affected policymaking in Australia. Could it...

This report highlights the work of the NSW Behavioural Insights Unit (BIU) in the years 2012-2014.