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Experiences of the cashless debit card from First Peoples of Ceduna

Carissa Lee Godwin, Editor, APO’s First Peoples & Public Policy Collection, presents key findings from a paper on the Federal Government’s … More

Grey research data: The new frontier

Ahead of the Grey Research Data workshop that APO will run at the eResearch Australasia Conference in Brisbane this October, … More

Guest blog: Introducing the Digital Health Systems Collection – by Simone Marangon

Digital health systems have been a critical topic of exploration and policy development across the globe in recent years. Simone … More

Digital Health

Economic independence through Indigenous art in Australia’s far north

Economic self-determination through art and culture can be empowering, but for some remote communities, it can be difficult to achieve. … More

Guest blog: Creative industries in Industry 4.0 – by Dr Jessica Pacella

In recent years, ‘creative industries’ has become a politically charged issue across the globe. Dr Jess Pacella, Lecturer at the … More

Opinion: Sorry Day – The importance of knowledge

My name is Carissa Lee Godwin. I’m a Wemba-Wemba and Noongar woman, and Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO) Specialist Editor … More

Swinburne names APO a ‘Change Maker’

Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO) has been named as a ‘Change Maker’ by Swinburne University of Technology (Swinburne) in a … More

Swinburne University

APO attends Oceans and Islands Conference

In late November APO Collections Editor Penelope Aitken travelled to speak at the New Zealand Institute of Pacific Research’s Oceans and Islands … More

Guest blog: What is Policy? – by Grace Coleman

What Is Policy? I had been asking myself – and everyone else – this question a hundred times this week. … More

Fighting poverty with evidence – an interview with Dr Naomi Rutenberg

APO will be attending the Global Evidence and Implementation Summit (GEIS) 2018 this October – in the lead up, we … More

APO Director joins international committee for FAST terminology

APO Director, Amanda Lawrence recently joined the first international FAST Policy and Outreach Committee (FPOC) – one of the library … More

Highlights from the KM2018 conference

In the first week of July, Amanda Lawrence and I attended the Knowledge Mobilisation Conference (KM2018) in Sydney, hosted by … More

APO’s crusade against broken links

Broken links have become synonymous with web browsing. There are a number of reasons why and how they occur, most commonly … More

Welcome changes to the Copyright Act

While copyright reform moves at a glacial pace, it is pleasing to report that in 2017 the Australian Government introduced … More

Copyright, Publishing

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