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In 2019, after three years, Robodebt was found to be unlawful. The Royal Commission process found it was also immoral and wildly inaccurate.
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🐊When the rains come: the gap between policy and delivery in remote Australia with Georgia Heath 🐊
Danielle talks with Georgia Heath from Yup Yup Labs about what becomes obvious when you design services from far away, and why remote communities expose the hidden assumptions baked into policy, technology and “digital by default”.We als...
🧪🧮 We CAN test big policy ideas without slowing government down: Eleanor Williams from the Australian Centre for Evaluation 🧮🧪
We talk with Eleanor Williams from the Australian Centre for Evaluation about making evaluation fast, rigorous, and genuinely useful for public service decisions. We move from a 40,000-person employment services RCT to the practical steps that ...
The moment of maximum ignorance: evaluation in public policy part 2
Three-quarters of government evaluations are commissioned to improve implementation. Two-thirds are commissioned for accountability.They're not the same thing, and building a system that serves both turns out to be harder than it looks.<...
💰 ‘Not your money’: reflections from government budget season ✂️
Budget season is here — and it’s tighter than many public servants have been used to. Across Australian jurisdictions, governments are landing budgets with real constraints: restrained spending, savings packages, efficiency dividends, and the e...
Grumpy, elusive creatures defending well-defined territory: evaluation in public policy 🦡
In 1997, Tony Blair’s government inherited a problem: tuberculosis in cattle was rising, farmers were furious, and nobody agreed on whether badgers were responsible. The solution was to commission a gold-standard randomised control trial — 30 s...