Andrew Leigh (Fraser, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

reaffirms this Government’s commitment to evidence-based policy making;

(2)

notes that:

(a)

the Productivity Commission has highlighted the importance of rigorous evaluation in assessing the impact of social, educational, employment and economic programs; and

(b)

randomised policy trials are increasingly being used as an evaluation tool in developed and developing nations; and

(3)

supports measures to increase the quality of evaluations, and calls on the Government to consider whether randomised policy trials may be implemented to evaluate future Government policies.

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