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Take a dual focus towards policy and social research. Learn how policy is shaped, before gaining skills to design and deliver your own. Use research to address sustainable communities, welfare, immigration, population health and more.

Master of Public and Social Policy

Get to know the Australian legal system. Develop legal reasoning and research skills. This legal degree hones your knowledge and approach to law. Graduate and work in justice and policy, or continue your legal studies towards a Bachelor of Laws.

Bachelor of Legal and Justice Studies

Explore power and politics across the globe. Major in international relations or public policy with the option to study a language. Use your final year for research and career development. Get set for success in government and business careers.

Bachelor of Advanced Government and International Relations (Honours)

Become a public policy expert and pursue executive career opportunities. Within the context of current challenges in the economy and society, you’ll build your research and analysis skills, and develop policy that contributes to the public good.

Master of Public Policy

Work on the core skills required to manage the business of government. You’ll cover public management theory and ethics, and explore current ideas around public policy. Tailor your course with electives including economics and environmental policy.

Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Administration

Equip yourself with the tools and confidence to create change. Build ethical workplace cultures and manage sustainable trade in an international context. Specialise for your career goals, choosing from public policy, public administration, and more.

Master of International Relations

Prepare or enhance your global career in leadership and influence. Explore the interplay of public policy and governance on an international scale. You’ll cover topics including international order and security, and choose from a range of electives. 

Graduate Diploma in International Relations

Understand how regulation and governance protects economies and what you can do to build on this. Cover international investment law, restorative justice and more. Graduate confident in your ability to design better regulation for the economy.  

Master of Public Policy: Regulation: National and International Regimes Specialisation

Learn critical thinking and problem-solving through case-based teaching. Reflect on the challenges of governing in an increasingly digital world. Get equipped with skills in analysing and researching public policy, and communicating persuasively. 

Gain demographic research skills to inform policy. In this specialisation you will learn to analyse and interpret demographic data so that you can develop policies that will help communities navigate the pressures of population change.  

Master of Public Policy: Population Change Specialisation

Current Issues in Environmental Law and Policy

Politics, Power and Policy

Natural Resource Economics

Criminology and Public Policy

Sustainable Resource Management

Diversity at Work: Access, Equity and Policy

Law, Policy and Community

Conserving Nature in Landscapes

Change Agents for Sustainability

Politics, Power and Public Policy

Why are some crimes committed more than others? Find out in this course. Study how governments resolve crimes. Cover policing, law enforcement, sentencing, imprisonment, prevention and more.

Learn the ins and outs of health systems and schemes. Discuss current issues such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme and vaccinations. Learn about policy and influences. Study initiatives for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Health Systems and Services

Policy Making in a Global Era

Get a thorough overview of the process of developing Australian government policy. Query the role of the public service. Shine a light on dilemmas that can arise. Draw on local examples that illustrate the complexity of the policy-making process.

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