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Biography
Yee-Fui is an Associate Professor and the Director (Higher Degree by Research) at Monash University.
Yee-Fui's research centres on strengthening political institutions and enhancing executive accountability. Her work has focussed on the regulation and accountability of actors and institutions in the shadows of government, such as ministerial advisers, lobby groups and government corporations, utilising empirical, doctrinal and comparative methodologies.
Yee-Fui is the author of Combatting the Code: Regulating Automated Government Decision-Making in Comparative Context (Cambridge University Press, 2025), The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System (Routledge, 2018) and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context (Federation Press, 2016), which was a finalist of the Holt Prize. Dr Ng also co-authored Douglas and Jones's Administrative Law (Federation Press, 9th ed, 2024). She has publications in leading Australian and international books and journals, including the Law Quarterly Review, Public Law, Federal Law Review, Melbourne University Law Review, UNSW Law Journal, The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution, and The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives.
Yee-Fui was a 2021-22 Fulbright Scholar and undertook research at New York University on the digital welfare state. She has also been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, the University of London, and University College London.
In 2023, Yee-Fui was the winner of the Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence by an Early Career Researcher (HASS) (the University’s highest honour for outstanding research excellence and impact). She was also awarded the Monash University Faculty of Law Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research Engagement and Impact (2024), Faculty of Law Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher (2023, 2021 and 2019), RMIT Graduate School of Business and Law Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award (2016), and RMIT Graduate School of Business and Law Research Impact Award (2016). For her PhD, she was awarded the Monash Silver Jubilee Postgraduate Research Scholarship, as the highest ranking PhD applicant in the University, as well as the Monash Postgraduate Law Dean's Award, as the top-ranking PhD applicant in the Monash Law Faculty.
Yee-Fui's work has been recognised by the High Court, federal government and Parliament. She was invited to deliver the Senate lecture at Parliament House in 2017, where she presented on the accountability of ministerial advisers. She was also invited to give evidence to federal parliamentary inquiries into political donations and freedom of information. She has provided training to senior military officers on dealing with ministerial advisers at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies.
Yee-Fui has co-written key reports for the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption and the New South Wales Electoral Commission on the regulation of political lobbying, and the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department on the federal government's use of automation and new technologies and its implications for the integrity law frameworks. She also worked in an interdisciplinary team on the Building 4.0 Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) on a scoping study for electronic approvals of planning and building permits. She has received research funding totalling $560,500 from federal and State governments, universities and international organisations.
Dr Ng is a prolific commentator on contemporary political issues in both electronic and broadcast media, including in The Conversation, ABC radio, as well as ABC and SBS television. In 2017, Yee-Fui was the winner of the RMIT University Media Star of the Year Award for the College of Business.
Dr Ng is a Victorian Convenor of the Electoral Regulation Research Network. She has previously worked as a Policy Adviser at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, a Senior Legal Adviser at the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, as well as a Manager at the Victorian Department of Justice. Yee-Fui has also practised as a solicitor at top tier law firms in Melbourne, London and Canberra, and has researched and taught at the Australian National University and RMIT University.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Law and politics
- Constitutional law
- Administrative law
- Public law
- Political integrity
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Anti-Corruption Commissions: Roles, Powers, Accountability and Effectiveness
Ng, Y.-F. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
30/04/25 → 15/04/26
Project: Research
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ePlanning and eApprovals – Scoping Study
Duffield, C. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Windholz, E. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Sabri, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Herath, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)), McRobert, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ng, Y.-F. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Gower, A. (Chief Investigator (CI))
15/11/20 → 7/06/21
Project: Research
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New Technologies Project
O'Sullivan, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Paterson, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Witzleb, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Ng, Y.-F. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Attorney-General's Department (Australia)
1/04/19 → 28/06/19
Project: Research
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Combatting the Code: Regulating Automated Government Decision-Making in Comparative Context
Ng, Y.-F., 2025, 1st ed. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. 245 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Democracy's bad eggs: corruption, pork barrelling and abuses of power
Ng, Y.-F., 2025, How Australian Democracy Works : And Why We Need It More Than Ever. Dunn, A. (ed.). 1st ed. Cremorne Vic Australia: Thames & Hudson, p. 199-206 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
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Re-writing and re-imagining rights: enshrining gender equality in Australia's Constitution
McLoughlin, K. & Ng, Y.-F., 2025, The Feminist Legislation Project: Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice. Batagol, B., Seear, K., Askola, H. & Walvisch, J. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 45-58 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Act of grace payments and the constitution
Roos, O. I. & Ng, Y.-F., Mar 2024, In: Sydney Law Review. 46, 1, p. 55-86 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Douglas and Jones’s Administrative Law
Head, M., Ng, Y.-F., Donnelly, J. & Morgan, M., 2024, 9th ed. Australia: Federation Press. 748 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Other › peer-review
Prizes
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Finalist of Holt Prize, Federation Press
Ng, Y.-F. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Monash Postgraduate Law Dean’s Award
Ng, Y.-F. (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Monash Silver Jubilee Postgraduate Research Scholarship
Ng, Y.-F. (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Monash University Faculty of Law Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher
Ng, Y.-F. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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RMIT Graduate School of Business and Law Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award
Ng, Y.-F. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Transparency and Accountability: Submission to Automated Decision-Making Reform Consultation
Townsend, J. (Contributor), Burgess, P. (Contributor), Gray, S. (Contributor), Marsden, C. (Contributor), Ng, Y.-F. (Contributor) & Singh, E. (Contributor)
15 Jan 2025Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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Submission to the Administrative Reform Review Issues Paper
Townsend, J. (Contributor), Ng, Y.-F. (Contributor), O'Bryan, K. (Contributor), O'Sullivan, M. (Contributor) & Singh, E. (Contributor)
May 2023Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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Public Administration and Automation
Townsend, J. (Fellow), Burgess, P. (Fellow), Giddings, J. M. (Fellow), Gogarty, B. (Fellow), Marsden, C. (Fellow), Ng, Y.-F. (Fellow) & Singh, E. (Fellow)
31 Jan 2023Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and Centre for Commercial Law and Regulation Studies, Attorney-General’s Department Review of the Privacy Act 1988, Submission in response to the Discussion Paper
Ng, Y.-F. (Contributor), Paterson, M. (Contributor), Pittard, M. (Contributor) & Witzleb, N. (Contributor)
20 Jan 2022Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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Castan Centre Submission to the Human Rights Commission Discussion Paper on Human Rights and Technology
O'Sullivan, M. (Fellow), Ng, Y.-F. (Contributor), Witzleb, N. (Contributor), Frode, K. (Contributor), Jones, A. (Contributor) & Wallingford, E. (Contributor)
25 Jan 2020Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries