Can there be good policy? Tracing the paths between policy intent, evidence and practical benefit in regional and remote Australia

通过跟踪澳大利亚各地区和偏远地区目前正在进行的重大医疗、住房和教育改革，这项研究为当代土著社会事务中的一场紧迫辩论提供了新的视角：即，政府是否处于推动社会变革或确定政策必要性的最佳位置；如果不是，是否有其他方法来制定良好的政策？将使用人类学的方法来观察政府的政策。这项研究将探讨土著社会政策意图和结果之间差距背后的体制原因；政策中的失败周期是如何复制的；以及创建和实施新的政策参与伦理的可能技术。

By tracking major health, housing and education reforms currently underway across regional and remote Australia, this research generates fresh perspectives on an urgent contemporary debate in Indigenous social affairs: namely, are governments best placed to drive social change or to determine policy imperatives; and if not, are there alternate ways to generate good policy? An anthropological approach will be used to observe government policy at work. The research will explore the institutional reasons behind the gap between intention and outcome in Indigenous social policy; how failure cycles in policy are replicated; and possible techniques for creating and implementing a new ethics of policy engagement.