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Rights, Relationships and Respect Evaluation. Final Report 2024
Author/editor: Robertson, H, Rossner, M, and Gadow, F
Year published: 2025
The ANU Sexual Violence Prevention Strategy (2019-2026) envisions a violence-free campus, emphasising primary prevention of sexual violence. This includes addressing systemic power imbalances and social norms that drive violence. In response to a 2021 internal review identifying gaps in respectful...
Trends in Civic Engagement in Australia
Author/editor: Cameron, S
Year published: 2025
A longstanding debate concerns whether civic engagement is in decline in the advanced democracies and whether this forms part of a crisis of democracy. This paper situates Australia within this debate by providing a broad overview of the state of civic engagement in Australia. To do so, this paper...
Perceptions of democracy and other political attitudes in Australia: October 2024
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M
Year published: 2024
This paper examines political attitudes in Australia as captured by the first wave of the 2025 Election Monitoring Survey Series (2025EMSS), conducted in October 2024. Using data from a nationally representative sample of over 3,500 Australians, the study explores satisfaction with democracy, trust...
Tracking Public Narratives of Democratic Resilience at Scale: From experts and machines, to the transformer revolution
Author/editor: Angus, S
Year published: 2024
Democratic resilience is as much about the narratives of our nation we affirm, as the institutions that enshrine our values and laws, a fact re-affirmed by scholarship across many branches of social science in recent decades. For quantitative social scientists, analysing or tracking public...
Measuring, monitoring and diagnosing the impact of mis /dis information to support future (non-legislative) policy development
Author/editor: Carson, A & Grömping, M
Year published: 2024
This discussion paper outlines the state of the information environment in Australia in comparison to other countries, focusing on the perceived threat of misinformation and disinformation on public information quality. Drawing on international literature, data, and recent Australian case studies—...
Adult Restorative Justice Conferencing in Queensland: Research on Best Practice and Expansion
Author/editor: Rossner, M, Eales, S, Bartels, L, Gelb, K, Taylor, H, Ruddy, R
Year published: 2024
This report considers the expansion of Adult Restorative Justice Conferencing (ARJC) in Queensland. It presents the findings of a review of best practice and scholarly research. It also presents the findings of consultations with restorative justice staff and other relevant stakeholders and service...
Income inequality and democratic resilience – Impacts and policy choices
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray M
Year published: 2024
This paper examines the relationship between income inequality and democratic resilience in Australia, focusing on how perceptions of economic disparity influence public satisfaction with democratic institutions. Utilising data from the Asian Barometer Survey and ANUpoll series, the study reveals a...
Income inequality and democratic resilience – Impacts and policy choices
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Gray, M
Year published: 2024
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...
Submission to Australian Public Service Commission: APS Reform agenda, Stage 2 integrity reforms
Author/editor: Podger, A
Year published: 2024
This submission responds firstly to each of the proposed initiatives discussed in the APS Commission’s Issues Paper. It also addresses one of the Government’s Stage 1 integrity reforms which has not yet been fully implemented and one of the integrity-related recommendations of the Robodebt Royal...
Gambling reform in the ACT, 2016–2024: What impact on gaming machine expenditure?
Author/editor: Markham, F & Suomi, A
Year published: 2024
Since 2016, successive governments in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) have pledged to reform electronic gaming machine (EGM) regulation in the Territory. In 2016, and again in 2020, ACT Labor and the ACT Greens negotiated over reforms to EGMs as part of their parliamentary agreements...
