Politics vs. Policy

Marc walks us through the algorithmic perspective of social media and helps us to explore the implications of this to our democratic rights: autonomy, privacy and more!

In this episode, Dr Mark Trifftt explains the impact and response of COVID-19 from a public policy point-of-view. He discusses the politicisation of the crisis, the governance failures in democratically reacting to the pandemic and the abandonment of...

COVID-19 has had a significant impact on every health system across the globe. Even countries with high-quality health systems have come under strain due to the virus being highly infectious and unpredictable. COVID-19 has highlighted the absolute...

Dr Chiara de Lazzari talks to us about Donald Trump and the 2020 US Presidential Election from the political strategies perspective. In this episode, she talks about the significance of the US' public sphere, historical context, media environment and...

A/Prof Leah Ruppanner walks us through the impact of COVID-19 for women – from workload, job loss, domestic violence to divorce rate. Leah touches upon the more innovative and targeted policy response to battle the widening gender inequality due to the...

In our second coffee session, we invited our fellow policyhead, Damian Narayan, to casually discuss the current challenges in the criminal justice policy, especially due to COVID-19. We also discuss the pressing issues in regards to human rights in...

In the first episode of our COVID-19 series, Professor Andrew Walter takes Jarryd through the impact that the virus is currently having on political and economic institutions around the world. Andrew explains how governments are reacting to what is...

Climate change has become more and more political than ever. Over the past years, climate and trade policies have been internationally used as political weapons in pursuing diplomatic agenda. From a policymaking perspective, the scientific consensus...

Capitalism has become digitalised in the past 20-30 years and has turned into what scholars and the media often call “surveillance capitalism”, which is an umbrella term for all of the public’s private behaviour, decisions and movement, monitored,...

The 2020 Closing the Gap report was delivered by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the 12th since its inception, stating that things “were better than they were … but we have not made as much progress as we should have.” In this two part episode Dr. Nikki...