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Posts
- 2026 James Martin Policy Pitch – Essay prize
- Data-driven insights shaping sustainable transport in NSW
- Promoting equity in school education: APPI grant winners and fellows detail challenges and opportunities
- Strengthening Indigenous leadership in coastal and environmental management
- APPI and Monash University ink partnership to drive research translation into government
- Urgent measures needed to boost STEM education in the regions, new report finds
- Shaping the future of AI in schools: new roadmap for participatory approaches to AI in education
- APPI CEO appointed to lead The Russell Group of Universities
- The University of Melbourne bolsters government partnership to strengthen public policy across Australia
- Bolstering construction sector productivity: new report sets out framework for digitalisation and innovation
- Report outlines a new model of home ownership for Australia’s ‘forever renters’
- Partnership to develop global playbook for evidence-based public policy
- Policy Challenge Grants 2025: Advancing solutions to pressing public policy challenges
- Building faster, greener and better housing in Australia: New report outlines roadmap for Modern Methods of Construction
- Keeping students in school and out of prison: New report calls for practical alternatives to suspension
- The Governor-General delivers 2025 APPI Oration, reflecting on a year of listening, learning and leading with care
- Policymakers explore what works in public policy at 2025 Summit
- Peter Varghese AO announced as Chair of the Australian Public Policy Institute
- Annual Impact Report released
- GovRadar
- Economic Reform Roundtable: Insights from leading experts
- Accelerating progress on clean energy through Aboriginal land council engagement
- The Australian Public Policy Institute launched
- Mobilising public finance for a future-ready economy
- New report highlights strategies to address nursing workforce shortages by attracting more men into the profession
- A new chapter: Introducing the Australian Public Policy Institute
- Peter Shergold completes his term as Chair
- Researchers from the University of Wollongong lead the charge for vaping policy change and regulation
- 2025 Policy Challenge Grants: focusing on critical government priorities
- APPI and the Australian Public Service Commission enhance strategic cooperation on public policy
- Leveraging NSW public investment for economic growth and innovation
- NSW Budget Masterclass upskills over 1000 attendees
- Strengthening community engagement in NSW disaster management
- Connected communities are key to crisis resilience, new report finds
- 2024: Year in highlights
- Policy solutions and strategies to expand electric vehicle charging in Australia
- Three new appointments bolster Institute’s sector expertise
- Protecting against ‘fake news’: A UTS researcher’s experience in informing government’s approach to misinformation
- The Policymaker Podcast launched with episodes on AI and Australia’s Net Zero transition
- Annual Impact Report 2023-24: Delivering impactful policy solutions for Australia
- Policy for a gender equitable future of work in NSW: Key insights
- Transforming child protection in NSW
- New approaches to breaking the school-to-prison nexus and improving educational outcomes for all students
- Nine trailblazing projects secure Policy Grants to advance policy solutions in Australia
- Western Sydney University researcher develops policy options to boost NSW manufacturing with advanced technologies
- APPI advances a new direction and vision for child protection and out-of-home care in NSW
- Policymakers and experts outline paths for a more equitable future for Australia
- Meet the UNSW researcher advising policymakers on early intervention to improve children’s mental health
- Uplifting contemporary public policymaking – what, how, and what now
- Putting tenants back at the heart of affordable housing policy: Policy Talks series kicks off to unite policy experts
- Charles Sturt University researcher informing policy to protect biodiversity
- University of Wollongong and APPI launch partnership
- From housing to homes: NSW housing expert calls for radical rethink to deliver family-friendly apartments
- Welcoming our new Executive Director for Capability-Building, Jane Reynaud
- Governing facial recognition technology for digital identity in NSW
- Researchers outline path to a more equitable future of work for women in New South Wales
- 2024 Policy Challenge Grant focuses on intergenerational equity
- Australian Universities Accord: Proposals for a New Funding Model for Teaching and Scholarship
- University of Wollongong and APPI partner to deliver impactful policy outcomes, with strong support from government
- Leadership on AI for the public good
- 2023: Year in Highlights
- New landmark guidance issued to enable NSW to be at the forefront of regulating and shaping artificial intelligence for the public good
- Facial verification tech in NSW Digital ID: New report unveils path to enhanced governance and training
- Prominent public sector leader joins Institute’s Board of Directors
- Families and the Australian housing crisis: Policy Fellow tackles hot button issue for policymakers
- Call for applications: Policy Fellowship
- 2023 Policy Challenge Grant winners announced
- Boosting resilience in regional, rural and remote schools
- Institute celebrates second anniversary with new flagship event for public policy professionals and researchers in NSW
- Community ties and learning opportunities are key to boosting resilience of regional, rural and remote schools in NSW, new report finds
- Developing the first strategic plan to combat modern slavery in NSW
- Welcoming our new Executive Director for External Affairs, Anthony Dursi
- Institute contributes to new Strategic Plan to tackle modern slavery in NSW
- The Policymaker: ‘required reading’ within 12 months of launch
- Government sustainability reporting: Institute gathers experts on key report findings
- Applications for groundbreaking Policy Challenge Grant program now open
- Institute now registered as a charity with the ACNC
- The University of New South Wales and Charles Sturt University join prestigious government-university partnership to boost evidence-based policymaking in NSW
- Walk the talk – New report argues that governments should be disclosing their sustainability impact.
- Institute publishes first Annual Report: Our CEO looks back at year one
- A critical time in the fight against domestic violence in Australia
- Institute announces recipients of the 2022 Policy Challenge Grants
- Institute and the NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner announce partnership against modern slavery in NSW
- NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet delivers the Institute’s inaugural Oration
- Government sustainability reporting: the why and how
- Reimagining how capital markets can better back disadvantaged women
- Boosting resilience in rural and remote education in NSW
- NSW leads the way in addressing the gender pay gap
- Institute launches The Policymaker
- Professor Peter Shergold AC appointed new Chair of the Board
- New grant program opened for innovative public policy with impact
- Inaugural Policy Challenge Grant to open in early 2022
- Interview with Dr Vafa Ghazavi on the role of evidence and ideas in public policy
- Meet our CEO, Libby Hackett
- New independent public policy institute launched for NSW
Events
- Support for people with disability
- Demonstrating a commitment to addressing racism
- Incorporating university Governance Principles and transparency requirements
- Webinar for First Nations participants (covering all focus areas)
- Responding to emerging technology risks
- Webinar for Students and Youth participants (covering all focus areas)
- APPI 2026 Policy Challenge Grants Information Webinar
- Policy Talks 2026: Research & Policy Trends in Education
- APPI Oration 2025 – The Governor-General of Australia
- Policymaker Summit 2025 – What’s working in public policy?
- Policy Talks 2025: Mobilising public finance for a future-ready economy
- Local approaches to managing and recovering from natural disasters
- Policy Challenge Grants Information Session
- Masterclass on the NSW State Budget
- Digital ID Roundtable
- 2024 Policy Challenge Grant Winners Reception
- Policy Talks: Policy for a gender equitable future
- Masterclass on automated decision-making in Australian governments
- Putting human relationships at the centre of transforming child protection and out-of-home care in NSW
- Policymaker Summit 2024
- What lessons are there for the UK from Australia’s Universities Accord?
- Policy Talks: Affordable and accessible housing
- Partnership launch event – University of Wollongong
- Policy Challenge Grants – Information Webinar
- 2023 Policy Challenge Grant Winners Reception
- AI and Government Roundtable
- Policymaker Summit 2023
- Launch of Strategic Plan to tackle modern slavery in NSW
- Walk the talk: Government sustainability reporting in 2023
- Expert workshops for Strategic Plan to tackle modern slavery in NSW
- 2022 Policy Challenge Grant Winners Reception
- Inaugural Oration
- Policymaker Live Webinar: Growth for Good
- Boosting resilience in rural and remote education in NSW
Government Policy Projects
- Horizon scanning for emerging risks and opportunities
- Building national momentum for tax reform to support the creative industries
- Mode shift strategy: Enhancing public and active transport uptake in NSW
- A relational child protection and out of home care model for NSW
- Enhancing health research and innovation ecosystems in NSW
- VET Review support project
- Australian Universities Accord: Proposals for a New Funding Model for Teaching and Scholarship
- Boosting resilience in regional, rural and remote schools
- Developing the first strategic plan to combat modern slavery in NSW
- Shaping and regulating AI in NSW
- Reducing domestic violence reoffending
- NSW Women’s Opportunity Fund: A proposal to support the entrepreneurship of disadvantaged women
- Closing the gender pay gap in NSW
- Economic stimulus options for NSW
Impact Reports
Media Coverage Items
- Want to lift productivity in construction? Try digitalisation
- Policymakers need sovereign AI, not commercial gadgets: how we built it and what we learned
- Can Australia build one of the world’s largest data centres?
- Why Australia needs a healthier information ecosystem, not just fact-checks
- Perfect faces, imperfect fit: Why AI-generated campaigns miss the mark for older Australians
- Protecting First Nations communities from frequent power disconnections in Australia’s hottest regions
- Discipline or disadvantage? Why school exclusion in NSW needs rethinking
- We study student suspension. It does not improve outcomes
- Productivity: The ultimate measurement frontier?
- Digital Twins: a national framework for Australia
- Keeping students in school and out of prison
- Centring ethics in early childhood education and care
- Movers & Shakers: Mills takes tax board chair, Longo departs ASIC
- Supporting gender and sexuality diverse students in NSW public schools
- Investing in prevention: a stocktake of Australian health policy
- The power of migrant stories: using narratives to improve policymaking
- Navigating complexity: reflections on the past and future of systems modelling in Australian health and social policy
- Airspace housing: a practical framework for Australian cities
- Making AI safe, responsible and productive for Australia
- Rethinking the Australian Dream: from homeownership to sovereign investment and secure rentals
- A framework for future-focused housing to withstand disasters
- Here’s how First Nations landholders can share the benefits of the NSW energy transition
- Future focus as inflation blare dims but change needed
- How Australia can build an alliance for housing in the Asia-Pacific
- Making digitalisation work for construction in NSW
- Making digitalisation work for construction in NSW
- More than just supply: building homes for social connection
- Federal Election Tracker: Explore what parties are promising
- Election 2025: policy opportunities for the next federal government
- Closing the loop: towards an Australian circular economy policy for the built environment
- Prioritising harm reduction in an overdose crisis
- From blueprint to impact: building a high-performance innovation system for NSW
- Safeguarding Australia’s sovereignty with public digital infrastructure
- NSW children’s guardian to undergo ‘urgent’ inquiry
- Key objectives for drug policy reform following the NSW Drug Summit
- Driving electric vehicle uptake by supporting charging in apartment buildings
- Apartment EV charging: Maybe not so hard, but it does need support.
- Live in an apartment and want to charge an electric car at home? Here are 4 ways to help that happen
- Three ways to cool the international students debate
- How government can boost manufacturing SMEs – and lift productivity – through adoption of advanced technologies
- Can national time banks strengthen wellbeing economies?
- Trust and support, not just safety, the keys to child protection success: report
- Using the past to inform sustainable policies for the future
- Turning waste into wealth: the future of manufacturing with waste feedstock
- Five insights on new industry policy
- From units to homes: How Australian policymakers could lead the way on family-friendly housing
- Unlocking the potential of residential battery storage in NSW
- What next for government as a strategic investor in Australia?
- Prioritising prevention: a sustainable path to investing in wellbeing
- ‘Principles, not price’ should guide Australian fees: report
- Australian accord a ‘great model’ for Labour and UK universities
- There’s a crisis within a crisis as family violence workers burn out trying to meet demand
- Families lose out in Sydney’s new housing push, say planners
- Existing frameworks are key to AI regulation
- Mariana Mazzucato: Australian speaking tour March 2024
- Digital (t)winning: the potential for AI as a public policy design tool
- James Martin Institute guides NSW in AI development leadership
- Digital ID will go mainstream across Australia in 2024. Here’s how it can work for everyone
- NSW Digital ID must come with legislated guardrails
- Academics lay out principles for rollout of NSW digital ID, face biometrics
- Developing community involvement in emergency management policy
- James Martin Institute brings together universities and government
Partners
Policy Challenge Grants
- From data to action: Frailty Index to guide Australian aged care policy
- Co-designing a roadmap to establish NSW as a sustainable data centre hub
- Safety inspection reform for NSW household and SME energy upgrades
- Addressing the social determinants of justice for criminalised children
- A system dynamics tool to inform a falls prevention strategy for NSW
- Modular construction for affordable housing: boosting housing supply, productivity and workforce diversity in NSW
- Aboriginal-led justice solutions: strategies for reinvestment
- Housing affordability and the teacher shortage: systemic implications
- A new ‘build-to-rent-to-own’ model for ‘generation rent’
- Leveraging digital technologies to boost productivity in the construction sector
- Harnessing data for inclusive and sustainable mobility
- Providing domestic and family violence services in CALD and faith-based communities
- Integrating evidence on early intervention in government policy
- Developing a place-based Childcare Stress Index
- Advancing the Net Zero energy transition through co-design
- Bringing community voices into policy: renewables in the Hunter
- Integrated policies for affordable and Net-Zero housing
- Generating affordable housing through community land trusts
- STEM education beyond our cities
- Governing AI education and equity together
- First Nations voices in habitat restoration
- EV-ready apartments
- Economic empowerment of First Nations people in the transition to Net Zero
- Governing facial recognition technology for digital identity
- Harnessing community perspectives in disaster management
- Building resilient communities
- Forging a gender equitable future of work in NSW
- Understanding youth who go missing or run away from out-of-home care
Policy Fellowships
- Community-based remand
- Implications of gambling reform on social clubs in NSW
- Heritage planning and housing supply in NSW
- Sovereign Sustainability Reporting – NSW and Beyond
- Families living in apartments and the Australian housing crisis
- Male participation and attrition in clinical nursing within NSW public health
- Exploring restorative justice solutions to the school-to-prison nexus
- Co-creating policy with communities
- Supporting fathers to share parenting and earning
- Leveraging private investment for industry and innovation
- Stimulating SME adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in NSW
Team Members
- Dr Jo Orlando
- Carlene Wilson
- Jordan Matthews
- Monique Smith
- Anne Irvine
- Leah Subijano
- Dr Annette McLaren
- Shoshana Fogelman
- Gillian White
- Anna York
- Marcus Ray
- Paul O’Reilly
- Joanne Matthews
- Tamsin Lloyd
- Kate Lee
- Jeremy Kurucz
- Lucy Hartas
- Mat Campbell
- Kirsten Andrews
- Diana Mezei
- Lara Bate
- Luke Henderson
- Dr Claire Wilkinson
- Lina Przhedetsky
- Associate Professor Amanda Tattersall
- Dr Sarah Duffy
- Amy Persson
- Professor the Hon. Verity Firth AM
- Joann Wilkie
- Eamon Ritchie
- Professor Gaby Ramia
- Tim McMinn
- Nathan Martin
- Melita Grant
- Lori Gunewardene
- Adekunle Ademikanra
- Dr Frances Foster-Thorpe
- Chris Degeling
- Dr Jenny Gordon
- Dr Jack Isherwood
- Dr Amy Wilson
- Dr Gillian Smith
- Andreas Kaufmann
- Isabella Whealing
- Jordan Ward
- Marianna Brungs
- Bonnie Bley
- Yvonne Lui
- Anthony Dursi
- Professor the Hon Verity Firth AM
- Joseph Rizk AM
- Amy Persson
- Peter Duncan AM
- Jillian Kilby
- Professor Paul Wellings CBE
- Peter Varghese AO
Reports
- Harnessing data for safe, inclusive and sustainable mobility
- Restoring coastal ecosystems and culture through Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Building on strength: Advancing STEM education in regional, rural and remote NSW
- Governing AI in education: Policy opportunities for building participatory and equitable futures
- Policy opportunities to strengthen digitalisation of the New South Wales construction sector
- A new path to home ownership for Australia’s ‘forever renters’: how NSW could lead the way
- Integrated policies for affordable and Net Zero Housing
- Disrupting the school-prison nexus in NSW
- Local Aboriginal Land Council Powershift: Sharing the benefits of the energy transition
- From classroom to clinic: strategies for recruiting and retaining men in nursing in NSW
- A mission-oriented approach to public finance for NSW
- Harnessing community perspectives in disaster management
- Building resilient Australian communities
- Driving change by supporting electric vehicle ready apartments
- Recharging SME manufacturing: Opportunities for government to boost adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies
- Supporting Children and Families to Flourish
- Australian Universities Accord: Proposals for a New Funding Model for Teaching and Scholarship
- Planning for the inclusion of families with children in apartments
- Building a more equitable future of work for women in NSW: Opportunities for government action
- Leadership for Responsible AI: A Constructive Agenda for NSW
- Improving governance and training for the use of facial verification technology in NSW Digital ID
- Local links and learning: resilience in regional, rural and remote schools
- Sovereign Sustainability Reporting – NSW and Beyond
- Reducing domestic violence reoffending
- NSW Women’s Opportunity Fund: A proposal to support the entrepreneurship of disadvantaged women
- Unlocking data & behavioural insights to close the gender pay gap in NSW
- Economic stimulus options for NSW