evidence-based policy

Former Victorian deputy premier John Thwaites discusses with Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells bipartisanship and making good public policy.

Queensland’s social housing register has commenced quarterly reporting, with a commitment to use the open data platform to help understand trends.

A new taskforce established will support the chief scientist and consult with the community about science and technology.

Self-professed ‘stats nerd’ Andrew Leigh has told public servants at the ABS their independent work is invaluable.

As the world emerges from two years under the shadow of the COVID pandemic, there is an understandable yearning to return to a past that is now long since disappeared. It is now time to prepare plans for a year of transition, with all its complexities. Much has changed in the past two years, but […]

New research conducted by two ideologically opposed think tanks has shown that it is possible for evidence-based policy making in government to be separate from politics.

Not all experimental design evaluations and randomised control trials are created equal. Public servants need to be able to assess results’ trustworthiness.

It is time to move away from the ‘government are from Venus, researchers are from Mars’ narrative. Instead we should focus on the challenges both parties are looking at from different but complementary angles. At a glance In paper for the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, Peter Bragge (Monash University) outlines the following ten ways to […]

In 2019, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) library is celebrating 45 years of being Australia’s national research and knowledge centre on crime and justice.

A memo to the APS from Jason Lange, Executive Director of The Office of Best Practice Regulation in the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet.

For every $1 invested, special libraries return more than $5-worth of value to their organisation – and that’s a conservative estimate according to independent economists (SGS Economics and Planning). Government libraries and their qualified staff provide an invaluable service which is often invisible to many senior executives. Yet the SES is familiar with evidence-based policy, […]