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Verity Firth

November 2020

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's JopKeeper is rated well by the think tanks.

JobKeeper given tick of approval in new report card

It has been a time of rushed decisions, lockdowns and federal-state blame-shifting but the government's response to the pandemic was "sound", say two think tanks that don't always agree.

  • Andrew Clark

November 2019

there is ample scope for governments to “more rigorously follow basic standards of evidence-based policy making.”

Policy-making process mostly 'flawed, mediocre'

Separate reports by two think tanks have found that in 14 out of 20 cases reviewed, federal and state government decision-making processes were either flawed or mediocre.

  • Andrew Clark

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