The Iran War has sparked a global fuel crisis, so we've decided to take a look at what this might mean for our island state. In the first post of a two-part series, we provide an overview of the impact that rising fuel prices are having on Tasmanian households and our economy.
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Refugee young people are often discussed in terms of settlement, integration and vulnerability, yet their everyday experiences of belonging are far more complex. This post explores how Bhutanese refugee adolescents in Australia negotiate belonging across school, family and community life. It challenges linear ideas of “settlement” by showing belonging as an ongoing, relational process. It highlights their agency as cultural brokers navigating intergenerational expectations, hybrid identities and everyday exclusions. In this post, Dr Nabaraj Mudwari shows how refugee youth experience living between cultures as a source of resilience, creativity and strength and asks institutions, especially schools, to recognise and value this complexity.
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This post by Kylie Flament, CEO of Social Enterprise Council of NSW & ACT (SECNA) highlights the value of work-integrated social enterprises (WISEs) in providing genuine support for people with barriers to employment.
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Ethical review is sometimes seen as a hurdle in the path of getting a research or evaluation project completed. This post from Gerard Atkinson, Managing Director of Iris Ethics, outlines the benefits of ethical review for better evidence, and better social policy .
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Across Australia and globally, disability policy increasingly promises to give people with disability a voice. Yet, as many people with disability can attest, having a voice is not the same as being heard. Recent research by Dr Laura Davy and Molly Saunders at the Australian National University explores radical listening as a potentially transformative approach to strengthening participatory democracy in everyday spaces.
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Dr. Jennifer Hester Principal Evaluator at Good Shepherd Australia and New Zealand (GSANZ) reports on developing a Submission to The Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, Parliament of Australia - The relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence victimisation and suicide.
Drawing on practitioner evidence and service system expertise, it emphasises the urgent need for improved data, integrated service responses, and long‑term recovery supports for women, children and young people.
Content note: this post and the submission discuss family, domestic and sexual violence and suicide, which some readers may find distressing.
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Welcome to Power to Persuade for 2026! We begin the year with a post from Alexa Ridgway (RMIT University), who discusses the need for formalised, co-ordinated and government-funded support for the family and friends of missing migrants and non-citizens - a salient issue in the context of missing Belgian tourist Celine Cremer, whose friends travelled from Belgium to assist with search and rescue efforts.
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In 2025, Power to Persuade has invited articles on the theme of the relevance of rights for 21st century policy. This post from Everyday Human Rights, an independent, non-political human rights educational consultancy, argues for the continued relevance of human rights frameworks as a tool for policy makers.
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