Australian Politics and Policy provides a unique, holistic coverage of politics and public topics for use in university courses.

A focus on recidivism in drug court evaluation can lead to the presumption that if a program does not significantly reduce recidivism, there is no reason for it to continue. However, this view obsc...

Current sorting practices in the provision of welfare, used in processes like categorising welfare recipients into cohorts for activation policies, rely on the data inputted into the system. With t...

Australians with disability and their families are well aware that living with disability can be very expensive – and yet our national poverty statistics and indicators do not take account of the hidd...

Call for Abstracts – APSA 2025 Conference Now Open! We invite colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, as well as the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific regions, to submit abstracts and panel proposals that...

That many public goods and services are coproduced jointly by government agencies (regular producers) together with clients and citizens (consumer producers) represents a fundamental insight, althoug...

Some exciting news and updates about Public Management Review! First, an update on rankings: 🏆 We have moved from 6th to 5th place in the Public Administration category based on our 2024 Impact Fact...

Call for Abstracts – APSA 2025 Conference Now Open!We invite colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, as well as the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific regions, to submit abstracts and panel proposals that ...

This open access book provides an updated and integrated analysis of the Advocacy Coalition Framework, more than thirty years after its conception.

The Venn diagram of arguments used to delay action on climate change and defend carbon markets is rapidly becoming a circle.

In this post, Dr Kathryn Daley, Associate Director, Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University & Deputy Chairperson, Youth Workers Australia argues for a supportive approach to drug use associ...

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Our blog today also considers a crisis - perhaps the biggest social and administrative crisis in recent times- Covid-19. Nicholas Bromfield writes about his latest paper on NDIS’s response, highlighti...

Policy-making is well-known to be characterised by the boundedly rational and selective use of knowledge. However, the decision-making and knowledge manipulation which characterised the Robodebt sc...

Supporting research conducted by people with disability for people with disability is an important part of our work at Scope.

A coroner is told Indigenous man Clinton Austin waited more than two years for NDIS support prior to being found unresponsive in his jail cell.

People with mental illness are getting lost in the NDIS system, isolated from friends and family and abandoned while their lucrative government funding is drained. This is how they're living.