Our Media Statements

  1. November 2022
  2. November 2021
  3. November 2020
  4. November 2019
  5. October 2018

Media Coverage – 2022

  1. ‘Public policymaking is broken. Here’s how one state is fixing it’, Percy Allan in The Mandarin, 1/12/2022
  2. ‘Australian law-making needs repair’, Percy Allan in the Spectator Australia – Flat White, 20/11/2022
  3. ‘How to fix the broken system of public policy making’, Percy Allan in Pearls and Irritations, 20/11/2022
  4. ‘Poor Report Card for Policymakers’, Dennis Shanahan in The Australian, 18/11/2022
  5. ‘Morrison government’s electoral changes worst-ranked piece of legislation: report’, Shane Wright in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, 18/11/2022
  6. ‘Governments’ top policy failures of the year highlighted’, Samantha Hutchinson in AFR (Australian Financial Review), 18/11/2022
  7. The Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis by our Governments, Percy Allan’s address to the Economic Society of Australia Forum, 19/07/2022.
  8. ‘Full Page Announcement of Statement of Public interest Standing Order’, Sydney Morning Herald, 4/06/2022
  9. ‘There is a way of making better laws’. Percy Allan in AFR( Australian Financial Review) , 31/05/2022
  10. ‘NSW to require public interest test for all new legislation’. Samantha Hutchinson in AFR( Australian Financial Review) , 30/05/2022
  11. ‘How to restore good process in public policy‘. Percy Allan in Company Director magazine, 1/4/2022

Media Coverage – 2021

  1. ‘How $2.8 billion of your money is spent — it grossly favours Coalition seats.’ Katina Curtis and Shane Wright in Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 15/12/2021
  2. ‘Unacceptable’, ‘mediocre’, ‘sound’ — and nothing anywhere near ‘excellent’. Verona Burgess in The Mandarin, 19/11/2021
  3. Public policy making is failing in Australia. Here’s how to fix it. Percy Allan in Pearls and Irritations, 16/11/2021
  4. Standard of policy decisions declines. Dennis Shanahan in the Weekend Australian, 13/11/2021
  5. Bringing home the bacon: Perrottet faces grilling over pork-barrelling. Alexandra Smith and Lucy Cormack in  the Sydney Morning Herald, 6/11/2021.
  6. A Statement of Public Interest should accompany all bills. Here’s why. Percy Allan in Flat White, Spectator Australia, 21/10/2021
  7. “Why policy needs process”. Geraldine Doogue interviews Percy Allan, Saturday Extra, ABC Radio, 21/01/2021

Media Coverage – 2020

  1. “‘Good process leads to good policy: Medevac repeal ranked worst piece of law“. Shane Wright in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 20/11/20
  2. “JobKeeper given tick of approval in new report card”. Andrew Clarke in the Australian Financial Review, 20/11/20 (Paywall)
  3. “JobKeeper proves pandemic-winning policy, super, HomeBuilder get thumbs down”. Dennis Shanahan in The Australian, 20/11/20 (Paywall)
  4. “Good policy processes result in better outcomes: Think tanks rate decision-making processes behind 20 government policies”. Shannon Jenkins in The Mandarin, 24/11/20
  5. “Latest Findings on how well our Governments make Policy”. Percy Allan in Pearls and Irritations, 27/11/20
  6. “The great public policy Razzie awards”. Percy Allan in The Spectator Australia, 27/11/20
  7. “Every Parliamentary Bill should have a Statement of Public Interest”. Glenn Barnes in IdeaSpies, 23/11/20
  8. “Left and Right agree, again: good policy starts with good process”. Richard Whitington in richardwhitington.com, 21/11/20

Media Coverage – 2019

  1. “Adani, tax cuts top legislated ‘failures’”. Dennis Shanahan in The Australian, 16/11/2019
  2. “Policy-making process mostly ‘flawed, mediocre’”. Andrew Clark in the Australian Financial Review, 15/11/2019
  3. “‘Shabby’ and ‘mediocre’: Four Morrison government policies slammed”. Jessica Irvine in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 15/11/2019
  4. “Political parties should agree on best practice policy process, research shows”. Shannon Jenkins in The Mandarin, 19/11/2019

Media Coverage – 2018

  1. “Half-baked’: Opposing think-tanks unite to condemn policy failures”. Jessica Irvine in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 5/10/18
  2.  “Finally, something left and right can agree on: Evidence-based policy”. Andrew Clark in the Australian Financial Review, 5/10/18
  3. “The evidence is in – half-backed policies a pox on both houses”, Dennis Shanahan in The Weekend Australian, 6/10/18 (only PDF File available)
  4.  “In praise of proper public policy process: if professional pundits can agree, can’t we all?” Stephen Easton in The Mandarin, 16/10/18

Evidence Based Policy

The objective was to move from complaining about problems to offering potential solutions. The Evidence Based Policy Research Project was one of the major initiatives to emerge from the new Democracy Foundation  2017 Symposium event.

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