South African President, Jacob Zuma, wasted lots of time and space in cheap politicking instead of galvanising South Africans to work together for a better future.
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Theresa May’s plan to boost UK competitiveness risks exposing flaws in the higher education sector.
Research has shed new light on whether we prefer policies that would benefit ourselves or our descendants.
South Africa’s economic challenges of 2016 are largely a reflection of its inability to change in the light of global shocks.
Book on agricultural innovation has had key policy impacts at the micro and macro level.
Politicians need to stop meddling with education policy and invest in teachers if Australia’s science, mathematics and reading standards are to improve.
Australian government proposals to ban so-called “double dipping” with paid parental leave (PPL) risks scaling back health benefits for women who take time off to care for their babies.
The cynic might argue Theresa May wants to endear herself to the electorate, and what could be more convenient than to bring back a policy which resonates strongly with aspiring middle class parents.
A new report highlights how little we know about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to publicly-funded Indigenous programs. It’s a similar story in other policy areas – but we can do better.
The 2016 post-election report from the Parliamentary Budget Office lacks context and comes too late to inform voters.
One in four people experience a mental health problem in any give year.
Forget the main stage headliners, the real festival heroes might be selling you crocodile burgers and mango smoothies.
Media reporting and policies almost always tend to focus on what is wrong with Indigenous Australians. This is having unintended consequences.
Labor’s policy does, however, fail to commit to long-term funding for universal access to preschool education.
Researchers and policymakers need to talk to each other. If they don’t, important research will merely gather dust and policies might do more harm than good.
PolicyCheck unpacks the detail and history of the Coalition’s proposed dental health care policy.
The US has already tried to save a steel industry, and its undercooked response holds some valuable lessons.
Our feelings of self-worth and contentment are no longer the preserve of writers and artists. Science has made measurement of our well-being a viable alternative to the banalities of economic output.
What Wales needs if it’s to have a separate system and why it needs to do so.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has created a new index for uncertainty in the Australian economy based on news, financial indicators and economic variables.
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Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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ESRC Strategic Adviser on Quantitative Methods Training, The University of Edinburgh
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Economics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Director of Research and Development, Pivot Professional Learning; and Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU, Australian National University
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Professor of Institutional Economics, RMIT University
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Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University
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Assistant professor of public policy, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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PhD student - evidenced based innovation, Curtin University
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Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
