Policymaking
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Policy making
Policy
Policy-makers
Policy-making
Policymakers
Conference paper
Evaluating design quality assessment of apartments for policy and practice
The importance of apartment living in creating sustainable cities has gained wide recognition as many Australian cities are beginning to grapple with rising populations. Concurrent with this shift in prioritisation, high density housing in Melbourne has experienced increasing pressures in terms of affordability and financialisation. Many practitioners, policy makers and members of the public have...
Conference paper
The adaptation roller-coaster: planning for climate change on the Gold Coast, Queensland
With over half a million people, the Gold Coast is currently the sixth largest city in Australia and one of the most rapidly developing urban areas in the country. Unfortunately, it is also highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and has been hard hit by storms, flooding, heatwaves, and droughts in recent years...
Report
How government can work with academia
This report sets out how government can improve the way it uses academic evidence and expertise in forming policy. Policy making is a core task for government. But to make policy well, government needs to be open to external ideas, including from academics.
Working paper
The Rotuma Bill No. 6 of 2015: what is at stake for Rotuma?
This paper summarises the changes proposed under the Rotuma Bill and provides a brief analysis of what these changes will mean for Rotuma and Rotumans as they change Rotuma’s relationship with Fiji.
Report
Investing to save: the economic benefits for Australia of investment in mental health reform
This report tries to tackle a set of complex issues with a pragmatic approach to the scale of the task of reforming Australia's mental health system.