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In February of 2001, Australia hosted its second national Deliberative Poll titled, Australia Deliberates: Reconciliation-Where from Here? As a social experiment, this Australian Deliberative Poll aimed to gauge the opinion of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous representatives on Reconciliation. Australian Reconciliation is a national cause in search of attaining cultural harmony and equality amongs...

OBJECTIVES Our contribution aims to explore the different ways in which early economic data can inform public health policy decisions on new medical technologies. METHODS A literature research was conducted to detect methodological contributions covering the health policy perspective. RESULTS Early economic data on new technologies can support public health policy decisions in several ways....

Changes in health care policy, either proposed or enacted, often bring about heightened rhetoric and polarizing characterizations. Regardless of the potential availability of data to help guide policy deliberations, decisions regarding our health care system are almost always ultimately political. Such decisions often revolve around the philosophical debate regarding the appropriate role of gov...

BACKGROUND Health policies are important instruments for improving population health. However, experience suggests that policies designed for the whole population do not always benefit the most vulnerable. Participation of vulnerable groups in the policy-making process provides an opportunity for them to influence decisions related to their health, and also to exercise their rights. This paper ...

This project investigates how the actors in a transportation chain are expected to act when different types of governmental control policies are applied. A simulation-based tool is being developed for use in analyzing the effects of different control policies. The simulator is based on agent technology and include some intelligence with respect to how the transport operators act in different si...

THE NOTION OF TRANSPARENCY is broad-ranging. It encompasses notions of accountability and political legitimacy of decision makers, as well as the legal and accounting infrastructure in which economic decisions are made. But from the operational perspective of a central bank, transparency can be regarded more narrowly in terms of the disclosure of information to a wider audience. Intuitively, th...

Within philosophy there has been little discussion of the risks associated with natural events such as earthquakes. The first objective of this paper is to demonstrate why such risks should be the subject of more sustained philosophical interest. We argue that we cannot simply apply to risks associated with natural events those insights and frameworks for moral evaluation developed in the liter...

Making decisions informed by the best-available science is an objective for many organisations managing the environment or natural resources. Yet, available science is still not widely used in environmental policy and practice. We describe a '4S' hierarchy for organising relevant science to inform decisions. This hierarchy has already revolutionised clinical practice. It is beginning to emerge ...