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As of: 21/3/26
90+
Briefs Published
300+
Briefs in the Pipeline
350+
Participants Trained
120+
Current Program Participants
About FORE Australia
FORE Australia is a youth-led, non-partisan organisation working to make public policy reform faster and fairer.
Policy shapes everything. Yet too often, expert-led and community-grounded ideas don’t reach decision-makers in the right format or at the right time - stalling progress. FORE Australia bridges this gap.
Policy Library of One-Page Briefs
Working with experts, we’re building Australia’s first Policy Library of One-Page Briefs - an online, centralised resource helping policymakers quickly find, evaluate, and act on evidence-based policy solutions.
Volunteer Training Programs
Our youth-led model fuels the Library. Each semester, we train 80-100 volunteer participants (selected from hundreds of applicants) who volunteer to help build the Library 1-4 days each week. In return, they get critical early career policy experience and an opportunity to publish on topics that are important to them.
Results
Since mid 2024, we’ve launched in Federal and Victorian parliaments, trained over 350 new policy professionals, and published briefs that have made it onto the floor of parliament - all to help make reform faster and fairer.
Get Involved
Decision-makers
For politicians, advisers, public servants, and others who can use the solutions.
Experts
For researchers, practitioners, advocates, and people with lived experience who can contribute insight.
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Future Policy Leaders
For people who want training, experience, and help on a pathway into policy.
Experts We Work With
We work with academics, grassroots campaigns, and NGOs to catalogue their policy asks into a centralised resource of one-page policy briefs.
Among many others
Partner Testimonials
"Scientists are often focused on technical sides of doing research, while lack the expertise and time to comunicate their research to policy makers and change the policies. FORE Australia could be an important bridge to link scientists with policy makers."
Rongbin Xu, Research Fellow, Monash University
"FORE Australia is an ideal channel for bringing clarity, research, and youth input into the policy space. It's a funnel of learning and education greatly needed in our democracy."
Hamish Curry, General Manager, Cool.org
"As decision‑makers face an overwhelming volume of reports and limited time, initiatives like this that distil evidence into concise, actionable briefs are critical to maximising the impact of expert insights."
Anonymous
Volunteer Testimonials
"FORE's Policy Program is one of the best - it is well structured - with the opportunity to work with some incredible expert stakeholders, network with likeminded peers, be challenged intellectually, and develop new skills in policy brief writing, public policy analysis, and policy communication."
Ella Kinninment, 25/26 Summer Cohort
"Participating in the FORE Policy Program has been a memorable, transformative, and impactful experience. I had the opportunity to work with an incredible team of people who were not only all so passionate about making policy solutions more accessible, but also became incredible supportive and wholesome friends. The Program also deepened my knowledge of how policymaking works in Australia"
Chamika Fonseka, 25/26 Summer Cohort
"Whilst completing my internship with FORE I was also working for an NGO and it was really rewarding to see how the skills I was learning translated across contexts. Becoming familiar with policy processes definitely helped my work and gave me greater insight into how working for an NGO fit into wider decision-making processes."
Patrick Livesey, 25/26 Summer Cohort