Posts tagged regulation

If it walks and talks like credit: behind the regulation of Buy Now Pay Later

In today’s post, Emma O’Neill of Good Shepherd (@GoodShepANZ) explores the potential impacts of the Government’s proposed regulation of Buy Now, Pay Later Products. Emma is a Senior Policy & Advocacy Advisor with a particular interest in women’s economic security, gender and climate change, and the impacts of marketisation on social equity.

Womens Policy Action Tank, Finance and economicsPower to Persuade30 May 2023BNPL, Buy Now Pay Later, Financial products, regulation, Poverty, welfare reform, economic abuse

Buy Now Pay Later is not the same as lay-by

In today’s analysis, Phoebe Nagorcka-Smith (@PNagorckaSmith) of Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand (@GoodShepANZ) uses evidence from their recent ‘Safety net for sale’ report to explore how Buy Now Pay Later is used to trap family violence victim-survivors in debt, and why regulation is key to preventing it.

Finance and economics, Womens Policy Action TankWomen's Policy Action Tank22 December 2022financial wellbeing, economic abuse, family violence, regulation

Big Tech, data and the public good: trade-offs and harms

The pandemic has exposed the multitude of dangers in trusting private entities with public data, demonstrating the need for carefully thought out regulation argue Jenna Harb and Kate Henne from the Justice and Technoscience (JusTech) Lab at the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance.

Service Delivery, Policy and governance, IssuesPower to Persuade8 October 2020Policy making, technology, Data and evidence for advocacy, Data, Governance, regulation, COVID-19, refugees and asylum seekers, Social Welfare

Violence against public servants: risks and possible solutions

Violence and aggression perpetrated against frontline public servants is a serious issue, argues Steve Munns, psychologist, public servant and PhD scholar at the ANU’s School of Regulation and Global Governance.

Issues, Service DeliveryPower to Persuade7 October 2020public service, policy problem, crime, regulation, research

Critical Junctures: opportunities and threats for democracies in the pandemic

Jensen Sass and Kate Henne, from the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the ANU, argue that the pandemic has opened up space for reconfiguring the relationships between states and markets.

Policy and governance, Issues, Innovation, Finance and economicsPower to Persuade7 October 2020data, coronavirus, privacy, markets in public services, Governance, regulation

The vexed question of market stewardship in the NDIS

Research from UNSW Canberra's Gemma Carey, Helen Dickinson, Eleanor Malbon and Daniel Reeders shows that government must take an active role in ensuring that the important policy goals of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) are met through market stewardship, employing more than just light-touch measures. Eleanor Malbon and Gemma Carey explain their research findings in this article from The Mandarin.

Policy and governancePower to Persuade7 March 2018Disability, insurance, market, NDIS, quality and safeguards, regulation, stewardship, thin markets, ndis

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