In December 2017 Crawford School committed to a gender balance of men and women in its public events program. How did the school do? Helen Sullivan reports on a long walk with a few bumps in the road.

In this final Policy Forum Pod of the year, we hear from dozens of voices across the policy research community about what policymakers got right and wrong over 2018, and what could be done better in 2019.

This week’s Policy Forum Pod takes a look at how the international community can get better not only at bringing the perpetrators of genocide to justice, but preventing atrocities before they occur.

Russia is a rising power in the Asia-Pacific region, but a lack of country-specific expertise in Australia’s universities is making it hard to hear counter-narratives, Elizabeth Buchanan writes.

Policymakers need to stop being drawn to the myth of the ‘quick fix’ and focus on long-term and sustained development of research and development as an ecosystem if they really want to solve those wicked problems, Lesley Seebeck writes.

If we can’t get our poverty measurements right, then we have no chance of getting our policy responses right either, Sharon Bessell writes.