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Developing objective measures of what works and what does not, and what caused a policy to fail or succeed, is nigh on impossible. What we can gather, nonetheless, is that addressing three key issues can certainly improve the chances of producing a successful policy.

Each of us can choose whether to be the ‘innocent’ bystander to unfairness in the public sector, or the protagonist willing to speak up about it. Which will you choose to be?

At this point in time, Australia’s various machineries of government are now more important than ever. Interconnected structures and processes of government is critical for leadership to shift the needle and make substantial change.

Electoral politics has been transformed into non-stop campaigning. In the past few years the 24/7 campaigning has started to be done not so much in poetry as in fantasy, writes Nicholas Gruen.

We have seen a significant drop in standards at the highest levels of government, creating a perception that things that are fast and loose.

The latest figures show the previous survey’s results were no mere aberration and that student performance in civics and citizenship has remained low.

Through recent natural disasters, global upheavals and a pandemic, Australia’s political centre has largely held. Australians may have disagreed at times, but they have also kept faith with governmental norms, eschewing the false allure of populism beguiling voters elsewhere. Our federal and state governments enjoy broad public confidence and draw their core legitimacy from the […]

The client management system will allow the relevant departments and agencies to access the same information, create the one case file and share information in order to boost child protection case management.

The Australian electoral system works. Even Former US President Barack Obama is a fan. Here are four things that other nations can learn from it.