Making room for the input of children and adolescents in responses to the next pandemic would help maintain their health, education, well-being and more.
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World Health Day is shining a light on local responses to health challenges. It’s time New Zealand takes that message to heart and works with local communities for a fairer health system.
David Seymour says misinterpretation of the Treaty risks creating an ‘ethno-state’. But ‘Critical Tiriti Analysis’ aims to enhance democracy by ensuring a Māori voice at the heart of policy making.
How we design our cities can make it harder to be healthy. City planners are now able to quantify the different elements that are affecting our health and well-being.
You have a finely honed sense of privacy in the physical world. But the sights and sounds you encounter online don’t help you detect risks and can even lull you into a false sense of security.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, governments in Canada have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on outside consulting firms like McKinsey, Deloitte and EY with almost no public oversight.
Indonesian public support for the death penalty declines when they learn more about its scope and administration.
Australians’ mental health has suffered terribly during COVID. They need to know what the plan is for a future pandemic.
After enduring a devastating wave of infections, deaths and lockdowns at the start of the pandemic, Italy is putting in place tougher anti-COVID measures, including a vaccine passport.
A fatherhood researcher argues that US work policies, income inequality, gender attitudes and health care all make it harder for dads to be highly engaged at home.
There are three measures for assessing whether public policy is successful, and the Coalition has been found wanting on all three. But there is one policy area that is an even bigger disaster.
Many aspects of American society, from language to sports to fashion, remain structured or separated by gender.
How to keep food prices down? Use technology to change the way we produce food and public policy to ensure there’s a fair price put on things like climate change, human labour and animal welfare.
Many governments, including the US, already collect and make public population statistics that could help them prepare for the next pandemic.
Professionalism has to start with ministers for it to stand any chance of being embedded throughout the public service.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how much modern societies are governed by statistics. Despite their objective appearance, these numbers gain their strength from very human relationships.
Rural communities are dynamic and complex. Imposing innovations that don’t speak to the needs of these communities will inhibit rural development.
Three principles are missing from Victoria’s approach: a recognition of global best practices, a breadth of expertise and an ability to look at the long-term consequences of its decisions.
The pandemic isn’t just a health disaster. It’s a disaster for cities and states, where the money to run government that normally comes in every year has evaporated. Congress may or may not help.
The challenge for the deepening of South Africa’s democracy is that the very existence of vanguardism prevents the realisation of empowered citizens.
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Professor of Government (Emeritus) University of Manchester and Research Associate, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies (Australian War College), Deakin University
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Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Newcastle
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Associate professor, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Chris Rissel is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Chancellor, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Politics, Monash University
