This report presents the findings of the ANU Governance Project, a community-led inquiry into governance structures and practices at the Australian National University. It finds staff have lost trust in leadership due to a lack of systems for transparency in operations and accountability from leaders, and offers 30 recommendations to support constructive and community-driven institutional...

With contributions from Australia’s leading politics and public-policy scholars, this textbook includes material on Australian political history and philosophy, key political institutions, Australian political sociology, public policy-making in Australia, and specialised chapters on a range of key policy domains.

Can the big political parties regain a sense of legitimacy, or have the conditions that sustained them come to an end?