This guide helps policy-makers reflect on how policy and regulation can affect people, businesses and community, as well as its broader economic and competition impacts. The Australian government’s rigorous approach to policy-making seeks to ensure that the costs and benefits of new policy are understood from all angles.

This independent evaluation was undertaken by Inside Policy to assess the extent to which older people felt supported and the extent to which the services met their needs.

Corporations play a major role in Australian democracy. They lobby governments for favourable policy outcomes. They make substantial donations to political parties and sometimes run overtly political advertising campaigns. This paper reviews the federal policies of political parties to identify which policies – if any – address corporate governance and the role of corporations in...

In this report, the authors share key insights gleaned from federal and provincial discussions and reflect on whether government systems, structures, and resources in Canada are equipped to deliver on commitments to evidence-informed decision-making in a manner that is accessible to the general public.

The aim of this project is to coax more evidence-based policy decisions by all tiers of government by reviewing and rating 20 high profile government decisions against the Wiltshire business case criteria. The 2022 report is the fifth in the series. For the first time, Per Capita has been joined by the Blueprint Institute to...