In this special Policy Forum Pod Extra, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet David Williamson discusses the Australian Public Service review and what it'll take to make the country's policy machinery fit for purpose.

If PNG is to improve the supply of health, education, and other key services at the local level, there must be more demand for it by individual households, Ron Duncan and Chris Banga write.

Australia will only reduce its national suicide toll if policymakers are held to account on poverty, education, bullying, and Indigenous disadvantage, Gerry Georgatos writes.

Drugs, weapons, people-smuggling and biosecurity risks make Papua New Guinea's porous land and maritime borders a serious concern for Australian policymakers, Anthony Bergin and Sam Bateman write.

With the Arab world still saturated by extremists and with new cyber capabilities making their way into the hands of jihadis, the international community can’t afford to become complacent about terrorism, Isaac Kfir writes.

Policymakers need to recognise solar photovoltaics and wind as the cheapest solution to global warming in a short time frame, Andrew Blakers and Matthew Stocks write in this chapter from Securing our Energy, the new publication from the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.