Impact
Research at RegNet is driven by a commitment to: our values of justice, environmental sustainability and human wellbeing; interdisciplinary expertise; innovative conceptual and analytical approaches to regulation and governance; respectful research practices; and identifying pathways forward to address current and emerging policy and societal challenges.
Our research is designed to help better understand the evolving dynamics of Australia, the wider Asia-Pacific region and globally, and support transformative social change. We serve as both a practical resource and a trusted partner for all who focus on Asia and the Pacific.
Intellectual Property Barriers to Sustainable Development
15 March 2019Intellectual Property (IP) in Australia is defined as ‘the property of your...
Pushing forward the global agenda on the social determinants of health
07 September 2018In 2008 Professor Sharon Friel was in London leading the Scientific Secretariat of the World Health Organisation’s...
Network Power
27 August 2018After Kurnia Toha was named to head Indonesia’s competition authority in 2018, ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)...
Smarter Regulation
20 July 2018When ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) Professor Valerie Braithwaite...
Turning the Asia Pacific green
10 July 2018Asia-Pacific countries are expected to add most of the world’s new power plants over the next three decades, leaving open the question of how to persuade them to build as much renewable power as...
Policing Cyberspace
10 July 2018Most people envision cybercrime looking like the movies, where slick tech geniuses sit behind keyboards writing elaborate programs to outsmart major computer networks.
Pushing to add human rights
20 June 2018When the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government was considering creating its own bill of rights, it chose...
Engaging the Philippines
15 June 2018Caught between the rising clout of China and the proximity of Indonesia, the Philippines often gets overlooked.
Sorting through the witchcraft myths
15 March 2018Burning or stabbing people accused of witchcraft conjures up images from hundreds of years ago, yet the practice continues today and is even growing in some remote areas of Papua New Guinea.
Designing, evaluating and improving Australia’s first bill of rights
07 March 2018RegNet and other ANU researchers were at the heart of the development and implementation of a significant legislative innovation for Australia: the adoption of Australia’...
