In today’s post, Dr. Maedeh Aboutalebi Karkavandi Senior Research and Evaluation Analyst at Good Shepherd Australia and New Zealand (GSANZ) reflects on the first day of the Australian Evaluation Society conference in Darwin, where a keynote from Dr Robyn Ober challenged her to think more deeply about where questions come from and whose perspectives they reflect.

To finish the week, we continue to explore the theme of young people’s rights this time through a piece by Ananya Awasthi, research assistant at the Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI) at RMIT University and Master of Public Policy graduate. In this blog, Ananya writes about crossover kids who are children involved in both the child protection and criminal justice systems and makes the case for greater communication lines and information sharing between these areas.

Continuing our theme on young people’s rights, Zaina Zulfiqar, Policy Advisor for FORE Good and recent Master of Public Policy (RMIT) graduate, argues for the need for Australian policy to uphold international students’ rights by ensuring that they are provided with appropriate support, protection and care.