Australia

Renowned journalist and author, Marian Wilkinson, hosts a conversation with UQ experts Dr Selina Ward and the Centre's Dr Pedro Fidelman to discuss the economic, political and scientific questions that will determine the future of the Reef and those on land who depend on it.

The first edition of the UQ Southeast Asia Forum series provides an insight into the Southeast Asian governments’ handling of the pandemic. Our panel of discussants from Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), the University of Sydney, and the UQ Centre for Policy Futures, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Southeast Asia and consider what changes the pandemic may bring to the politics, economics, and foreign relations of the region.

With a flattened student-teacher hierarchy and a focus on community relationships, the Centre's Senior Researcher Dr Marnee Shay shows why flexi schools are a growing phenomenon catching more and more Indigenous students who have fallen out of mainstream schooling.

Both countries have more and more in common, a fact which should challenge old tropes about difference. Our Centre for Policy Futures Research Fellow Greta Nabbs-Keller reports in the Lowy Institute's 'The Interpreter'.

Scientists are manipulating genes that could solve environmental sustainability and conservation problems in Australia. But governance challenges may be significant and need to be thought through before the science becomes conservation policy.

The program combines the two organisations' strengths to increase the impact of outstanding Churchill Fellows and their findings to guide best practice and policy reform for Australia.

From 1995, Australian governments pursued efficiency benefits arising from significant structural reforms in the Electricity Supply Industry, including corporatisation and regulation of network monopolies, and introduction of competition for generators and for retailers.

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