Professor Tess Lea is Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University and, among many other things, she leads the Housing for Health Research Incubator in partnership with Healthabitat. She is an anthropologist who studies organisational ethnography, policy and bureaucracy, and Indigenous endurance under ongoing settler occupation. Her 2020 book Wild Policy asks “Why is it almost always the case that any benefits from social policy must be arm-wrestled into being?”. In response, Lea offers the concept of policy ecology as a way to understand the dispersed, interconnected nature of social policy, and to offer a means to engage in “critically mindful action”.