Papers

Long-form briefings on the workings of government.

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Beneath the budget headlines, a slower rearrangement is underway — one that will outlast this parliament and most of the next.

The Change in Operating Environment in Services Australia

How well-meaning reforms to integrity bodies have, almost without exception, made them harder to use — and what to do about it.

Five days, eleven portfolios, one notebook. A field report on what the estimates process actually reveals — and what it conceals.

A close reading of a machinery-of-government change that almost happened — and what its near-miss tells us about how the centre now thinks.