Editors' Choice 2024

User icon Toby Green
21 February 2024
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Every week, Gary Price and I choose new and noteworthy reports for Policy Matters, a newsletter that goes out to our growing community of registered users. Here are reports we've chosen so far in 2024.


Centre for Cities · 16 April 2024 English

A widely held (and sensible) view is that policy making should be based on evidence. But it often isn’t. This paper considers why this is the case for local government …


HRW: Human Rights Watch · 21 August 2024 English

This report explores the intersection of climate change, specifically wildfires, and reproductive health rights. Produced by Human Rights Watch in collaboration with Nurturely, the report is based on over 50 …


The White House · 17 January 2024 English

Since the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability in 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration has fortified its commitment to secure the open-source software ecosystem. In March 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration released the …


Future of Church Safeguarding · 21 February 2024 English

Professor Jay was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York in July 2023 to independently: provide options and recommendations for how a new independent safeguarding and …


Humanitarian Outcomes · 27 March 2024 English

Since the beginning of the current conflict, precipitated by the attack on Israel by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and followed by a major military offensive by Israel, humanitarian aid …


ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research · 10 May 2024 English

Australia’s population is not only ageing; it is also becoming more diverse. Over the decade to 2021, the average Australian has become both one year older and three percentage points …


Commonwealth Fund · 18 September 2024 English

The report compares the health system performance of 10 countries, including the U.S., using 70 measures across five domains: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health outcomes. …


OHE: Office of Health Economics · 22 April 2024 English

Adult vaccines can return up to 19 times their initial investment to society, when their significant benefits beyond the healthcare system are monetised. This report demonstrates the health and socioeconomic …


ANROWS: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety · 23 April 2024 English

This report is the second publication from the research project “An exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing programs that respond to domestic and family violence and sexual assault”. …


WHR: World Happiness Report · 20 March 2024 English

In this issue of the World Happiness Report we focus on the happiness of people at different stages of life. In the seven ages of man in Shakespeare’s As You …