Publications by Author

1. FEATURE: How to Make Real Progress in Closing the Gap

   Ross Farrelly | 07 Feb 2012 | POLICY Magazine

   Randomised trials can help determine policies that can work in Indigenous affairs.

2. BOOK REVIEW: Outliers: The Story of Success

   Ross Farrelly | 04 Jun 2009 | POLICY Magazine

   Outliers: The Story of Success by Macolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company, 2008).

3. FEATURE: Policy on Trial

   Ross Farrelly | 15 Sep 2008 | POLICY Magazine

   Randomised trials are the best tool we have for finding out if policies really work.

4. REVIEW ESSAY: The Predictive Power of Statistics

   Ross Farrelly | 03 Mar 2008 | POLICY Magazine

   Data crunching may soon be more important than intuitive decision-making.

5. COMMENT: National Curriculum: A Bipartisan Bad Idea

   Ross Farrelly | 06 Jun 2007 | POLICY Magazine

   A national curriculum involves more risks than benefits.

6. FEATURE: Welcome the Edupreneurs

   Ross Farrelly | 09 Sep 2005 | POLICY Magazine

   For-profit education would benefit students and teachers.

7. FEATURE: Parent Power

   Ross Farrelly | 03 Mar 2005 | POLICY Magazine

   The free market, rather than the centralised bureaucracy, should decide what children learn at school and how they learn... Read More...