Latest Findings on how well our Governments make Policy

For the third year running, independent research undertaken by two philosophically opposed Right and Left think tanks finds that basic standards of evidence and consultation-based policy making are only loosely followed by Australian federal and state governments. Nevertheless, there was an improvement on last year’s results.  

The thinks tanks agreed the two highest scoring policies were the Queensland Personalised Transport Ombudsman and the Federal My Health Record which received average total scores of 9.5 and 9.0 respectively out of an ideal 10.0.  The Federal Client Rights to Bank Data Bill also scored highly at 8.5.

The lowest scored case studies were the Federal Repeal of Medevac Bill and the…