On this Second Serve, we chat to senior public servant and policy expert Andrew Wear about his new book, Solved: How other countries have cracked the world's biggest problems and we can too.

While the bushfire crisis of last summer has come to an end, the health of Australians remains at risk from climate-fuelled fires, Sotiris Vardoulakis writes.

On this episode, we discuss how to care for mental health during an unprecedented period of community isolation due to the coronavirus.

While escalating trade tensions between the United States and China are causing problems, they may provide an opportunity for states of the Indo-Pacific to diversify their trade options, Amrita Jash writes.

If Australia hopes to tackle its drug problem, policymakers must look to Portugal and Switzerland for radical frameworks that target addiction, rather than simply attacking supply, Vernon White writes.

Mixed messages, blame shifting, and political point-scoring won’t help us. What we need are clear communications and a whole-of-society effort, Matthew Sussex writes.