The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute recently undertook a program of work to inform how Australia can strengthen its democratic resilience. This report outlines the work behind the creation of their Democracy Index.

People increasingly rely on large language model (LLM) chatbots such as ChatGPT or Copilot to receive and organise information. But these chatbots often make mistakes or provide 'made-up' or false information. The author of this paper argues that policy-makers have responded to this challenge in a piecemeal fashion, and uses qualitative methods to examine these...

This report sets out the findings from national sample of Australians to explore how people perceive and understand the various types of personal information that organisations collect, use and share - along with the associated risks.

This sixth guide of the Urban Institute’s 'Do No Harm' project explores the concept of crafting equitable data narratives. What does equity mean? Who does equity include? What methods do we use to ensure equity in data work? How do we present the data in a way that show the humanity they represent?

For this project, the research team based in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S) worked in collaboration with experienced members of Australian Red Cross to better understand the challenges and potential of data-driven decision-making for community disaster resilience.