Connected Beginnings, established in 2016, is a place-based program working with community stakeholders to integrate and strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ access to early childhood education, maternal and child health, and family services to support children’s school readiness, with a focus on children aged 0-5 years. The mid-term evaluation was designed to provide...

In Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere, there is a growing policy focus on long-term, complex and systemic challenges and opportunities. This paper uses the term ‘transformative change’ to describe the extreme of this type of policy focus.

This paper offers policy-makers a blueprint for assessing the true value of native forests. It builds upon the previously published cost-benefit analysis of alternate land uses versus logging in Victoria’s Central Highlands.

The Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program is designed to foster collaboration between industry and research. This evaluation sought to assess the Program's success in meeting its stated policy objectives by reviewing the Program’s high-level design and short- and long-term outcomes. It finds that the Program is working well, delivering on its objectives and meeting an...

Australia is home to some of the world’s most ancient forests. This paper offers policy-makers a blueprint for assessing the true value of our native forests. Recognising the inherent preferencing of the quantitative (particularly when it comes to Expenditure Review Committee processes), the authors conduct a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of conserving the wet forests in...