Churchill Fellows represent Australians from all walks of life and, in sharing insights gained from research into and first-hand experiences of international practices, they offer unique perspectives of value for Australian policymakers. This third edition of Policy Futures showcases the best of the Churchill Fellows’ ideas, and provides targeted and relevant policy advice.

Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of Australia’s children, especially those most vulnerable because of their circumstances, continues to be a contentious and elusive area of policy reform. This study aims to provide a national focus for reforms to the child protection and youth justice systems by examining the nature of recommendations from 61 reports and...

This paper suggests some starting points for thinking about the way that digital systems that implement law and regulation might be governed. In this instance, governance means a system of design, oversight, review, decision-making, and accountability that can provide people with assurance that the system is reliable and operating as it should.

The aim of this study was to examine the applicability, interrater reliability and predictive validity of the Violent Extremism Risk Assessment—Version 2 Revised (VERA‑2R) against data on individuals who have been radicalised in Australia.

This guide assists NSW public sector agencies to understand the nature and prevalence of common and systemic corruption issues they are likely to encounter.