Traditional views of regulation emphasise the role of the law as the primary tool for compliance but many regulators recognise that behaviour change is the focus of, and even synonymous with, regulation. This article discusses three behaviour change tools: segmentation, choosing specific behaviours and understanding motivation.

The Inclusive Australia Social Inclusion Index provides evidence that can help track progress and evaluate initiatives to improve social inclusion broadly in Australia. This document reports on the first six waves of data collection. The first wave was collected in May 2017, and the most recent wave was collected in December 2021.

Social inclusion in Australia has proven remarkably resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic. Australians were surveyed after the height of the pandemic in December 2020, confirming that disasters do bring people closer together.

This article outlines three rules to help regulators gain the greatest benefit from new and applied research in behavioural science.

Getting people to behave in desirable ways (or cease behaving in undesirable ones) is a critical outcome for regulators. While we struggle to save lives and flatten the curve, COVID-19 is providing behavioural and compliance researchers with a natural policy experiment in why people do and don’t do what they’re told, and how this differs...