Subject guides: Criminology: Government departments

Selected resources

Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO)
The Analysis & Policy Observatory is a research collection and information service curating key resources to support evidence-informed policy and practice. APO hosts and provides free access to a wide range of grey literature, data, journal articles and books, audio and video and online resources and the tools to publish, search, manage and track content, people and organisations.

Government media releases by portfolio
Press releases provide a current source for government policy in an ever changing political environment
Parlimentary sources
To search for the work of parliamentary committees, parliamentary debates/Hansard, bills and legislation, parliamentary publications, parliamentary media releases and the budget papers
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Political party policies won't provide official Government Policy in practice, but will reflect the position of the government on many policies

NATSEM
The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) undertakes independent and impartial research that contributes to policy design and analysis. It includes tools that map the impact of policy on diverse community groups.
ANU. SPEAR: The Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis & Research Centre
The SPEAR Centre commenced in 2000 as a joint initiative between the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS) and the Economics Group in the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU.
University of Sydney Social Policy Research Network (SPRN)
The SPEAR Centre commenced in 2000 as a joint initiative between the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS) and the Economics Group in the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU.
UNSW Social Policy Research Centre
The Social Policy Research Centre is dedicated to making a positive impact through independent and leading research that tackles critical social issues.

Think tanks provide critical analysis of existing government policy and use their own research to influence government policy. Often they have a particular political persuasion that informs their policy analysis.

The Centre for Independent Studies
The CIS supports a market economy and a free civil society under democratic government. We believe that smaller government is the key to unlocking individual responsibility, liberty, choice and enterprise.
Centre for Policy Development
CPD is one of Australia’s leading independent policy institutes. We develop long-term policies to promote shared prosperity and sustainable wellbeing.
The Grattan Institute
Grattan Institute is dedicated to developing high quality public policy for Australia’s future. It was formed in 2008 in response to a widespread view in government and business that Australia needed a non-partisan think tank providing independent, rigorous and practical solutions to some of the country’s most pressing problems.