Take on the role of an Australian senior adviser to the foreign minister, defence minister, international trade minister, or Prime Minister (whichever is most appropriate to your chosen topic).
Write a 2000-word policy paper, taking the policy area listed below as your starting point. The topic chosen must be sufficiently different to the topic chosen for your research paper. As always, there is a research aspect to the assignment and full referencing is required.
You are required to review a current policy of the relevant department and provide a recommendation as to how to proceed moving forward. The paper should outline clear alternatives to the current policy and highlight one as the preferred option. You need to include justification for any policy(s) along with potential ramifications (political, military, social, economic, environmental etc), along with the advantages and disadvantages of alternative policies.
The report should be structured as follows:
• There should be an Executive Summary at the beginning outlining the aim of the report and your key recommendations.
• The body of the report should introduce the background of the current policy approach and situation, outline key policy alternatives, and outline the rationale and implications of a preferred option.