This report focuses on the global landscape of parliamentary research services, with a particular focus on those that seek to bring academic research into parliamentary processes. It is based on research and knowledge exchange activities conducted as part of a Joint Parliamentary Academic Fellowship hosted by the UK’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology between...

This report endeavours to reconcile the different public interest considerations which apply in identifying what reporting and public statement powers would appropriately be conferred on the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission. The report makes a number of recommendations for legislative change.

This discussion paper describes the evolution of key democratic reforms in Tasmania, principles for a healthy democracy, and details 16 reforms that Tasmanian parliamentarians – Liberal, Labor, Independent and minor party – could pursue in the 51st Tasmanian Parliament.

This report has been written for the purpose of informing the Independent Crime and Corruption Commission Reporting Review. The review was established was following the High Court decision of Crime and Corruption Commission v Carne [2023] HCA 28.

How politicians talk about and news media report on Australia’s democracy affects how people think about, feel towards, and engage with democracy in their day-to-day lives. This report presents the findings of a quantitative analysis of discourses around democracy in parliamentary speeches and news media articles in Australia.