IN FOCUS: AUSTRALIA’S POLICY FUTURE

On this episode of Policy Forum Pod, Maria Dahm and Carmel Crock join us to discuss the importance of communication in reaching a correct diagnosis.

The government’s new policies on litigation funding and class actions are causing regulatory chaos and will deprive ordinary Australians of fair legal representation, Andrew Watson writes.

On the first episode of Democracy Sausage of 2022, Marija Taflaga and Frank Bongiorno join Mark Kenny at the barbecue hotplate to discuss the Omicron omnishambles and public perceptions of the prime minister.

On our first episode of Policy Forum Pod for 2022, we’re joined by Faith Gordon and Rob Watts to talk about lowering Australia’s voting age to 16 years old, the rights of children and young people, and the future of Australian democracy.

To improve Australian policy-making, federal ministers should be rehoused within their portfolio departments, rather than at Parliament House, Lesley Seebeck writes.

By offering more effective training opportunities through its Seasonal Worker Programme, the Australian Government can contribute to the lives of workers and their home communities and better realise its development goals, Rochelle Lee-Bailey and Elise Howard write.

If they are serious about diversity, Australian policymakers and companies need to ensure every workplace is one that supports diverse employees, rather than just establishing ‘set and forget’ numerical representation targets, Akshaya Kamalnath writes.

Australia and India are heading in the right direction on technology collaboration, and this evolving relationship has important implications for the future of the Indo-Pacific, Arjun Gargeyas writes.

In the first episode of the National Security Podcast for 2022, Head of the ANU National Security College Professor Rory Medcalf is joined by Royal United Services Institute Senior Research Fellow Veerle Nouwens to explore how the relationship between these two nations could adapt to an increasingly dynamic Indo-Pacific.

History shows that voting for the wrong person, or on the basis of a single issue, at a time of a crisis may spell disaster, Quentin Grafton writes.