This report explains the system that delivers arts and cultural experiences in Australia, from broad and grassroots through to specialised and professional. It demonstrates how the arts and culture system is organised, governed and developed. The report also highlights how cultural literacy and creative skills building occur across the population.

Behavioural science needs a simple, outcome-focused benchmark that can be used to measure the impact of interventions to debias and improve decision-making. This paper proposes one: calibration. The goal of calibration isn’t to eliminate cognitive bias, but to enable good decisions despite it. The paper provides a framework for understanding and measuring calibration, tips and...

Systems leaders are trusted actors who help many people to collaborate to address wicked policy problems. This article summarises the practical advice to emerge from academic research and offers insights on how to support and engage in systems leadership. Systems leaders are needed to inspire and empower many other actors to produce more transformative change.

This report examines the transformative role of behavioural insights (BI) in European Union policymaking, advocating for integrating BI early in the policy cycle to enhance policy effectiveness. The policy relevance of this work lies in its timely contribution to evidence-based approaches, particularly in areas where the human dimension is key to policy success.

This report, produced in collaboration with the International Science Council, calls for the world to pay heed and respond to a range of emerging challenges that could disrupt planetary health and wellbeing. It presents insights on eight critical global shifts that are accelerating the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and nature loss and...