Governments provide essential services and play an important role in a modern, advanced economy. Paying for government activities requires revenue and this mostly comes from taxation. So what should we tax and how should we tax it?

This unique course will equip participants to engage in gender analysis of diverse public policy fields, including understanding concepts and methods to identify and address the differential impact of policy and its funding on both men and women.

This course will provide an introduction to the methods used in behavioural economics.

This course builds on Policy Essentials 1 to help participants to identify and deal with the challenges in developing evidence-informed policy and programs. The course will explore how to critique evidence when you are not an expert and have little time.

Organisations in the 21st century operate in an environment of complexity and uncertainty, hyper-competition and contested narratives, and resource-interdependencies and polycentric governance. In this environment, mistakes can be costly and lasting, and can threaten organisational survival.

Infrastructure plays a vital role in all societies and infrastructure projects are usually the largest investment items within a budget. However, they are also among the most controversial because their sheer size and long-term impact can result in costly mistakes.

Australia faces serious challenges in the form of local, national and global environmental problems and in sustainably managing the Country’s resources.

This course takes you through the basic concepts of macroeconomics including: economic output, productivity, growth, inflation, foreign investment and trade. Participants will learn about aggregate economic statistics frequently used by government and media.

The possibility of using big data in combination with machine learning algorithms creates a range of challenges and opportunities for policymakers.