Insights Library

This research brief explores how Australian public servants use empathy in policy design and practice.

This research brief explores a market-shaping approach to public sector capability, highlighting the structural capacities, organisational r...

Behavioural public policy draws on insights into how citizens’ behaviour does not always accord with assumptions of rational decision-making...

Governments face a persistent challenge of initiative overload. As initiatives accumulate, attention becomes fragmented and delivery slows....

While Australian government organisations promote sustainability in their strategic plans, they struggle to embed these same commitments in...

An article in the Australian Journal of Public Administration explores how Indigenous governance adapts and innovates to support self-determ...

Researchers in universities, think tanks and consultancies want to have greater influence on policy. According to an article in Policy Studi...

A practical diagnostic framework that connects policy robustness to the design choices that produce it, enabling policymakers to assess stre...

Complex societal problems such as climate change, pandemics, and polarisation are persistent, interdependent and difficult to define. Yet th...

Building a pro-integrity culture means moving beyond formal rules and training alone towards integrity as a lived, shared practice embedded...

A paper in the Australian Journal of Public Administration focuses on the question of whose knowledge counts in policy directed at Aborigina...

Using two Australian policy reforms, this paper examines how micro-design choices shape policy robustness, adaptability and implementation,...