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.


Productivity Commission · 10 July 2024

This report by the Productivity Commission investigates economic mobility in Australia, focusing on life course mobility, intergenerational mobility, and the prevalence of poverty. It highlights that while Australia fares well …


IEEFA: Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis · 16 October 2024

This analysis delves into Santos' proposal to convert the near-depleted Bayu-Undan gas field into the world’s largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility. The report critically examines the technical, financial, …


QUT: Queensland University of Technology · 31 July 2024

The research community’s fixation on journal prestige is harming research quality, as someresearchers focus onwhereto publish instead ofwhat. We examined researchers’ publicationpreferences using a discrete choice experiment in a cross-sectional …


eSafety: eSafety Commissioner (Australia) · 20 June 2024

In 2023, eSafety collaborated with researchers from Deakin University and the Queensland University of Technology to conduct a qualitative study into the online experiences of young men. The project explores …


CRS: Congressional Research Service · 5 April 2024

On March 26, 2024, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed due to a cargo ship colliding with a bridge support tower. The collapse caused loss of life and …


UNHCR: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · 26 February 2024

La presente nota explora las características específicas de la integración socioeconómica de las poblaciones desplazadas por la fuerza que residen en los países latinoamericanos miembros de la OCDE, es decir, …


Chatham House · 23 August 2024

This report provides an in-depth analysis of how internet resilience is maintained in conflict and crisis situations, drawing on case studies from Afghanistan and Ukraine. It explores the roles of …


Polimapper · 18 March 2024

The next general election looks set to return the highest proportion of newly elected MPs since 1945. • The UK’s political parties have now selected just under 90% of their …


Ofcom: Office of Communications · 19 April 2024

The Children’s Media Lives project follows, as far as possible. the same group of 21 children aged 8 to 17, conducting filmed interviews each year to learn about their media …


14 March 2024

The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remarkable longevity include high vegetable intake, …