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13 FEB 2025
McKinnon has commissioned the ‘How the Sausage is Made’ series to examine policymaking practices in Australia. This series of reports will provide insights into patterns of the good and poor dimensions of policy development, to identify key barriers to delivering quality policy. This supports McKinnon's wider agenda on identifying and advocating for system improvements to policymaking in Australia. This series will provide a set of findings and recommendations on how to improve policymaking processes and governance at a systematic level.
The first report of this series focuses on policymaking the energy sector, developed for SMF by the Blueprint Institute and McKell Institute (Feb 2025).
Published 13/02/2025
Published 13/02/2025
Our agenda builds on the previous work of the Evidence Based Policy Research Project (EBPRP), an independent not-for-profit organisation that advocated for evidence-based public policymaking. Between 2018 and 2022, EBPRP produced 100 case studies on the quality of public policymaking in Australia at both federal and state levels.
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