Parliamentary scrutiny of proposals, including their consequences and trade-offs, is an important contributor to better policy outcomes. Australia’s Impact Analysis (IA) framework is designed to support this process. This policy brief outlines what an IA is, the standard process for an IA, determining if it's needed and the Office of Impact Analysis quality assessment.

This report outlines five key lessons of the value and usefulness of the Statement of Public Interest (SPI), introduced in the NSW Parliament in 2022 as a mechanism to support high quality and evidence-based legislative policymaking processes. It also makes six associated recommendations to overcome identified challenges to the SPI delivering on its objectives.

This purpose of this article is to reorient theoretical debate to match the practical debates at the centre of Australian political constitutionalism. This kind of research can help to understand how political constitutionalism can address emerging problems in Australian constitutional governance such as growing executive centralism.

Parliament plays a crucial role in holding regulators to account, but MPs and peers struggle to scrutinise them in a systematic way. This report sets out how select committees can perform this important task more effectively, underpinned by a realistic assessment of parliament’s capacity.

This report assesses progress against the 'democracy agenda' halfway through the 47th Parliament, and identifies priorities for 2024 – the last chance to implement electoral reforms ahead of the federal election due in 2025.