In early 2024, the Resilience Democracy Data and Research Network was established as a collaboration between Australian researchers, civil society leaders and government agencies. The network is designed to encourage interdisciplinary, collaborative and actionable research seeking policy-relevant insights that measure, diagnose and assess pathways strengthening Australia’s democratic resilience. The network is dedicated to making research findings and insights widely available. This paper has been written to prompt ideas for future collaborative research of the network.

The Network is coordinated by the Centre for Social Policy Research and the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University (ANU) and co-chaired with the Department of Home Affairs’ Strengthening Democracy Taskforce. This discussion paper series is being published by POLIS@ANU with the support of the Department of Home Affairs.