Summation of Intro to Australian Policy

The following report is intended to explore policy making in relation to technology. The report will be structured by firstly providing a summary of an excerpt from “The Australian Policy Handbook” (Bridgman & Davis, 2004). This will also identify the key concepts and ideas from the article. The report will then look at policy making around technology and whether or not this is important for an individual, personally and professionally.

The chosen reading “The Australian Policy Handbook” (Bridgman & Davis, 2004) explores public policy in relation to Australian policy making and outlines that the intended audience are persons who intend on compiling or investigating public policies. The purposes and the methodologies involved with public policies are also discussed. Furthermore, the authors (Bridgman & Davis, 2004) explain the three components that define public policy, which are policy as an authoritative choice, policy as a hypothesis, and policy as an objective.

Policy as authoritative choice describes how policy is the result of politics. Public policy is the result of political decisions that provides the “authoritative response to a public issue or problem” (Bridgman & Davis 2004, p. 4). The policy is considered “authoritative” because people of the government system who are recognised by Australian law generate public policy.

Policy as a hypothesis deals with