As Closing the Gap policy failures are laid bare in the Productivity Commission’s latest report, a new study aims to quantify the gap in Indigenous mental health and economic insecurity.
The platform’s handling of harmful content, including disinformation, hate speech and propaganda, has attracted widespread criticism.
Human rights legislation is a normal part of living in a modern democratic country, but Australia still doesn’t have a legal framework that supports everyone living here.
Just as we have the country’s smartest legal minds on the High Court, and our best health practitioners setting vaccine policy, the review wants the best economists to set monetary policy.
We must take heed of what those with lived experiences are calling for in Australia’s policy commitment to end the national crisis of violence against women.
An interdisciplinary “One Health” approach and strong decision-making are our best defences against the next zoonotic-disease outbreak.
The recent introduction of a private member’s bill to decriminalise drug use has started an important conversation about how our drug laws are harming people, and how we can improve them.
The federal government’s Rapid Antigen Test policy is a disaster by any measure. It should own up to its policy failure and try to improve the situation as soon as possible.
Evidence will play a vital role in successfully implementing the extension of the Victorian tutor learning initiative through 2022.
The lack of investment in the development and deployment of decentralised diagnostic devices in Australia, most importantly a COVID-19 nucleic acid test, is a public policy failure.
In a survey sure to provoke debate, 66 political scientists and historians ranked Australia’s WWII prime minister John Curtin as the finest leader we’ve had.
There are three measures for assessing whether public policy is successful, and the Coalition has been found wanting on all three. But there’s one policy area that’s an even bigger disaster.
Is the failure to secure convictions in Australia’s first contested cartel prosecution the canary in the coal mine for future enforcement?
Addiction remains shrouded in stigma, while the system through which we provide addiction treatment in Australia is fragmented and failing. There's no better time to address these issues.
There was no real winner in the chaotic first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden – least of all the American public.
How might the controlling of human mobility translate into a "new normal" beyond the coronavirus pandemic?
A crisis of this scale requires a willingness to generate bipartisan consensus, but the PM has struggled to put the national interest above party politics.
Around 6000 Australians aged under 65 live in nursing homes, cut off from their families and peers, with inadequate support for their disabilities.
Regulatory failure in gambling runs deep, and is a major political problem.
It was a combination of circumstances and individual capacity that made Bob Hawke one of Australia's finest modern prime ministers.
President Trump’s proposed wall on the US-Mexico border is more symbol than substance – just like Reagan's Star Wars program.
It's a mess and has lost its way in the modern political and social landscape. Nothing short of a complete rebuild can save it.
The Chinese government will use its consolidated power to try to rein in some of the biggest problems facing its economy in 2018.
The new Foreign Policy White Paper offers a mix of soft power and co-operative initiatives alongside the usual emphasis on hard-nosed security strategy.
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