Publications

Ann Scott discusses the controversy over police statistics, and the harm done to evidence-based policymaking with the loss, under the current government, of reports such as

Brisbane Times article (7.8.14) after crime statistics for 2013-14 verified as overall drop of 2 percent, after earlier announceent that ‘Queensland families are the safest they’ve

David Donaldson reports in The Mandarin (15.8.14) that Gary Sturgess suggests that ‘Perverse incentives and blurred lines of responsibility create problems in the running of the

The ALP has put forward for public comment an issues paper ‘Advance Queensland’.  Dr Chris Salisbury who studied the impact of the Beattie Government’s Smart State

In this article Ann Scott suggests that one result of the cut-backs across the public service, both in Queensland and now at the Federal level, is

On 12 June, in The Conversation, Stephen Duckett, Director of the Grattan Institute’s Health Program, recorded with regret that the (COAG) Reform Council had just issued

John Rice writes in The Conversation (10 June 2014) about the scant evidence that underpins the Abbott Government’s higher education policies, asking what place does evidence

In an article in the Queensland Journal of Educational Research, in 2000, Dr Robin Sullivan, then Commission for Children and Young People, described the benefits of

This report by Professor Meredith Edwards and Mark Evans argues for the integration of the world of thought and the world of action through ‘enlightened’ evidence-based

‘Plain Words, gobbledygook, abstractitis and pollywaffle’.  In this article TJ Ryan Foundation Research Coordinator Ann Scott writes on signalising roundabouts, conversations in space, and the ever-present

Universities have an important role to play in public accountability Think-tanks formed from groups of university researchers can contribute to the analysis and formulation of public

The London School of Economics Institute for Government has just published three new reports on the state of policy making in the UK government. They show