Introduction
Matteo Bonotti and Narelle Miragliotta

Part One: Australian Governance and its Challenges

1. A Party System in Crisis? Assessing the State of the Australian Party System [Narelle Miragliotta and Finley Watson]

2. The Challenges Facing Australian Federalism [Alan Fenna]

3. Australian Governance in an Era of Leadership Instability [Paul Strangio and James Walter]

Part Two: Making Australian Democracy Work ? Trust, Integrity and Civility

4. The Challenge of Political Trust [Josh Holloway and Rob Manwaring]

5. Promise Breakers? Rebuilding Trust in Our Government [Frank Algra-Maschio and Robert Thomson]

6. The Integrity Debate in Australia: Perspectives from the Parliamentary Inquiry into the National Anticorruption Commission (NACC) [Zim Nwokora]

7. Incivility in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities [Matteo Bonotti and Steven T. Zech]

Part Three: Australia’s Policy Issues in a Global Context: Climate Change, Migration and Geopolitical Security

8. Turning the Tide on Australian Climate Action [Nathan Fioritti and Robert Thomson]

9. Building a Fair Future: Transforming Immigration Policy for Refugees and Families [Matthew Lister]

10. Exogenous Crises and Australia’s Development Policy [Eleanor Gordon, Samanthi J. Gunawardana and Lauren Lowe]

11. Global Canberra: Leveraging Australia’s Strategic Partnerships [Remy Davison]

12. Nuclear dangers: Australia’s role in global efforts for non-proliferation and disarmament [Marianne Hanson and Maria Rost Rublee]

Part Four: Australia’s Systemic Social Issues: Inequality, Disadvantage and Discrimination

13. Income Inequality in Australia [Nicholas Barry]

14. The Participation of Young People in Australian Politics [Katrina Lee-Koo, Luke Dean and Zareh Ghazarian]

15. Australia's Woman Problem? The Rise and Fall of Gender Equality [Blair Williams]

16. Speaking with Two Voices: ‘We, the People(s) of Australia’? [Paul Muldoon]

17. Australian Republicanism and the Colonial Fracture: Post-Colonial Nationalist and Decolonial Critiques of Monarchy [Ben Wellings]