This week’s Policy Forum Pod takes a look at drug policy – from Reagan’s War on Drugs to pill testing and the New South Wales’ government's “war on music festivals”, and asks the experts whether there are better ways to approach a thorny policy issue.

Australia has set a series of concerning climate records this year. What the country desperately needs is effective energy policies, Andrew Leigh writes.

A disregard for academic research and a lack of accountability in institutions continue to wreck Australia’s environment, Quentin Grafton and John Williams write.

In this special post, experts from the ANU National Security College give us their thoughts on the national security issues set to shape this year. 

On this episode of the National Security Podcast, Michael Clarke discusses counter-terrorism in China with a focus on the dynamics between the country's Communist Party and its ethnic and religious minorities. 

Australia’s law enforcement agencies are in a war of attrition with organised crime that they have little chance of winning. It’s time for a strategic rethink, John Coyne writes.