Policy Forum Pod

What were the worst policies of the recent past? What were the policy highlights of 2018? What policies would help improve the world in 2019? We put these questions to more than 20 researchers at the Australian National University spanning an enormous range of policy issues, from foreign aid to fire prevention, drought policy to discrimination, social media to international security. This special end-of-the-year podcast comes in two parts. First, host Martyn Pearce leads a discussion with previous presenters of Policy Forum Pod – Quentin Grafton, Jill Sheppard, Sharon Bessell and Julia Ahrens – on everything that went right and wrong in policy in 2018. Next, host Nicky Lovegrove takes the reins, bringing Sue Regan and Maya Bhandari into the mix, as they take a look at the policies the world needs moving into a new year. Martyn Pearce is Editor of Policy Forum. Sophie Riedel is Policy Forum’s roving reporter for this special end of year episode. Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics and ANU Public Policy F