Expand your mind
A curated list of readings that Frank collects to stretch your policy thinking.
Parliament brief: The legislative process
This summary sets out the key steps in Parliament’s process to pass legislation, with an explanation of each.
Parliament’s financial scrutiny cycle
This one-page resource includes a diagram showing Parliament’s financial scrutiny cycle, which lasts two-and-a-half years. The cycle starts with the Budget Policy Statement, steps through other parts…
Policy Quality Framework
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet hosts the Policy Project. This Policy Quality Framework sets out the dimensions of quality policy advice and is useful for policy professionals…
Developing papers with the Policy Quality Framework
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet hosts the Policy Project. This checklist for peer reviewers, which helps identify what good looks like for different parts of a paper, is one of the…
Social Investment Unit: Briefing to the Incoming Ministers
This 2017 Briefing to the Incoming Minister sets out why social investment matters, and what a successful social investment approach could look like. The components to enable a social investment…
Getting the relationship right: Effective engagement with Ministers across the political/administrative interface
This article reports highlights from a panel discussion jointly hosted by the Institute of Public Administration New Zealand (IPANZ) and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).…
Free and frank advice, and policy stewardship
Providing free and frank advice is integral to the development and delivery of policy stewardship, good policy decisions, and to the legitimacy and performance of a politically neutral public…
