Welcome to Lindy Edwards' Website

Position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Dr Lindy Edwards work focuses on the role of ideas and ideology in politics. Her specialities include economic ideas, democratic ideas and identity politics. Her books include How to Argue with an Economist: Reopening political debate in Australia and she is currently working on book that is a stocktake of Australia's ideological experiments, tentatively titled The Ideological Toolkit: Drawing the lessons from Australia's Experiments with Ideology.

Lindy's current work in the Department draws on her experience in public policy. She is a Research Fellow of the Australia New Zealand School of Government and is a member of a team working on an Australian Research Council project on the policy capacity in Australia's federal public service.

Lindy is a fortnightly columnist with The Age newspaper and has previously worked as an economic adviser in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, as a press gallery journalist for Sydney Morning Herald and as a political staffer.   She is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Development and a Board Member of Catalyst.

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