A new poll commissioned by the Sydney Policy Lab has found the majority of Australians support a careful reopening of international borders once more people are vaccinated, and from countries where the COVID-19 pandemic is under control.

Renowned former BBC correspondent Nick Bryant, and economic researcher Claire Connelly, will be joining the Lab to pursue research investigating the future of democracy, economic inequality and an agenda for post-pandemic rebuilding in Australia. 

The workplace exploitation of migrants in Australia is exacerbated by limitations in the current regulatory and enforcement landscape. The Sydney Policy Lab offers policy solutions for migrants who have been exploited.

The Real Deal project is designed to give local communities a real say in the changes and transitions they are facing, by deploying participatory research, community organising and other relationship-based research strategies.

Government responses to COVID-19 are undermining our democratic commitments — why have progressives remained silent? Read Professor Tim Soutphommasane and Professor Marc Stears in the ABC.

We’ve rebuilt our world before – for the better – and we need to do it again, Professor Marc Stears writes in the Sydney Morning Herald.

The 2022 federal election has been a win for local politics due to the power of community organising and localised campaigning, writes Mark Riboldi in ABC Religion & Ethics.

Living with COVID-19 measures might normalise restrictions on, and surveillance of, our access to public space and one another.